Book Details
- Paperback
- 200 pages
- ISBN 978-1-902638-68-3
Publisher Parthian
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My great-grandfather and grandfather sailed the Horn, in steam and diesel, out of Liverpool. I was the first generation not to sail the Horn or fight a war. Instead, I would go to the end of the world, beyond Patagonia, to Tierra del Fuego. I would do more, I would see the Horn and find lost tribes. The child in me could go even further and sail the waters of Coleridge's albatross and enter the watercolours’ blue horizons of my first novel, and sit on Robinson Crusoe's imaginary shore. I had imagined these places; they must exist. All I had to do was look for them.
'His approach is thorough and his excitement contagious' - The Independent on Sunday
'Teems with erudition, anecdotes and facts that are a delight to retell... carries an echo of Raymond Carver, or even Carver's mentor, Hemingway.' – South China Morning Post
'A most unusual and delightful book, full of surprises, ambiguities and strange quirks of knowledge, and written with attractive gusto.'– Jan Morris
'His approach is thorough and his excitement contagious' - The Independent on Sunday
'Teems with erudition, anecdotes and facts that are a delight to retell... carries an echo of Raymond Carver, or even Carver's mentor, Hemingway.' – South China Morning Post
'A most unusual and delightful book, full of surprises, ambiguities and strange quirks of knowledge, and written with attractive gusto.'– Jan Morris
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