In Tasmania

Adventures at the End of the World

Nicholas Shakespeare (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2005
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-946608-6 (ISBN)

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In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chatwins and, inevitably, a family of Shakespeares. But what makes this more than a personal quest is Shakespeare's discovery that, despite the nineteen century purges, the Tasmanian Aborigines were not, as previously believed, entirely wiped out.

Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Snowleg and The Dancer Upstairs, which was chosen by the American Libraries Association in 1997 as the year's best novel, and in 2001 was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich. His most recent novel is Secrets of the Sea. He is married with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.11.2005
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	266 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-09-946608-2 / 0099466082
ISBN-13	978-0-09-946608-6 / 9780099466086
Zustand	Neuware