Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Hugh Thomson is an award-winning writer whose previous books have explored the world from Peru to England, and whose films have been nominated for a BAFTA.The White Rock and Cochineal Red were about his search for Inca ruins;
Nanda Devi, a journey to a wild and usually forbidden part of the Himalaya;
while his memoir Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico was serialised by BBC Radio 4.
He returned home for The Green Road into the Trees which won the inaugural Wainwright Prize for Best Nature and Travel Writing.
'An immensely enjoyable book: curious, articulate, intellectually playful and savagely candid.' Spectator.
"Everywhere Thomson goes, he finds good stories to tell." New York Times Book Review.
'He takes the reader to places we may not have dreamed of going - places of geography, the spirit and the emotions.' Independent
<p>'Bold, bewitching and a touch dangerous - like Lord Byron himself' <b> Benedict Allen</b></p><p></p><p>'Hugh Thomson is a mesmerising storyteller' <b>Sara Wheeler</b></p><p>'Byron in Latin America is a terrific subject. There is
no one better qualified to give us his inspired "what if", and
make it delightfully his own, than Hugh Thomson' <b> Nicholas Shakespeare</b></p><p></p><p>'Literally fabulous! Unmissable...' <b>Joanna Lumley</b></p><br />
'Bold, bewitching and a touch dangerous - like Lord Byron himself' Benedict Allen
'Hugh Thomson is a mesmerising storyteller' Sara Wheeler
‘Harnesses Byron’s wayward, swashbuckling energy. It is a joy….’ The Spectator
‘Literally fabulous! Unmissable…’ Joanna Lumley
What would have happened if the poet Lord Byron had not died an early death in Greece?
But instead had lived - and then some - by doing what his letters show he always wanted to do.
Escape to South America with the great last love of his life, Countess Teresa Guiccioli, and help Simon Bolivar liberate it from the Spanish.
This great sweep of a novel imagines just that and takes the poet and his lover into a New World of the Americas where nothing is ever quite as they expect.
An enjoyable counterfactual novel by an award-winning writer which imagines what might have happened if the poet Byron had not died an early death - but instead gone to South America to fight with Simon Bolivar.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Hugh Thomson is an award-winning writer whose previous books have explored the world from Peru to England, and whose films have been nominated for a BAFTA.The White Rock and Cochineal Red were about his search for Inca ruins;
Nanda Devi, a journey to a wild and usually forbidden part of the Himalaya;
while his memoir Tequila Oil: Getting Lost in Mexico was serialised by BBC Radio 4.
He returned home for The Green Road into the Trees which won the inaugural Wainwright Prize for Best Nature and Travel Writing.
'An immensely enjoyable book: curious, articulate, intellectually playful and savagely candid.' Spectator.
"Everywhere Thomson goes, he finds good stories to tell." New York Times Book Review.
'He takes the reader to places we may not have dreamed of going - places of geography, the spirit and the emotions.' Independent