Sailing by Starlight
«'Confiding, easy-going, intimate, the writer spins a new - a mind-bendingly new - account from this well-worn cloth. Fluent, charming, but mischievous, the story slips past like a tantalising vision but leaves a strange flavour behind.' '[A] fascinating investigation...' -- Giles Foden»
Alex Capus follows every step of Robert Louis Stevenson's last years, studying every clue left behind by the Scottish writer and reaching his own conclusion about the most dramatic turn in Stevenson's life: his decision to settle in Samoa, where the climate was poison for his already diseased lungs. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 220
- ISBN
- 9781907973741
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 3 x 2 cm
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«'Confiding, easy-going, intimate, the writer spins a new - a mind-bendingly new - account from this well-worn cloth. Fluent, charming, but mischievous, the story slips past like a tantalising vision but leaves a strange flavour behind.' '[A] fascinating investigation...' -- Giles Foden»