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Playing With Water: Alone on a Philippine Island
James Hamilton-Paterson
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Description for Playing With Water: Alone on a Philippine Island
Paperback. Offers a book about a remarkable and self-sufficient writer's 'desire to be lost', and the journey of a conventionally educated Englishman to an island on the far side of the world that aroused in him a feeling of discovering a place he always knew. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 3JJP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
'One June day in 1953 aged twelve I sat in a classroom and drew a map.'
The map that the young Hamilton-Paterson drew was of a tropical island, and it prefigured with uncanny accuracy the Philippine island on which, thirty years later, he would spend a full third of each year, entirely alone. It had a coral strand, a field of grass, vertical volcanic cliffs and no water. He survived by fishing and by drinking rainwater.
This is a book about a remarkable and self-sufficient writer's 'desire to be ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571313990
SKU
V9780571313990
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-44
About James Hamilton-Paterson
James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds, which was hailed as a classic account of the golden age of British aviation. He won a Whitbread Prize for his first novel, Gerontius, and among his many other celebrated books are Seven-Tenths, one of the finest books written in recent times about the oceans, the satirical trilogy ... Read more
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