Walking the Woods and the Water
- 330 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
Nick Hunt pays homage to Patrick Leigh Fermor by walking the same challenging route across Europe in this "glorious book."
Nick Hunt Knihy
Nick Hunt je autorem, který prošlapal a popsal cestu napříč velkou částí Evropy. Jeho prvotina byla finalistkou prestižního ocenění pro cestopisnou literaturu. Hunt také přispívá a rediguje pro projekt Dark Mountain, což naznačuje jeho zájem o hlubší témata přesahující pouhý cestopis. Jeho psaní zkoumá spojení mezi člověkem a krajinou, často s poetickým a introspektivním nádechem.
Outlandish
- 288 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
A dazzling plunge into the four strangest landscapes scattered across Europe.
Where the Wild Winds Are
- 272 stránek
- 10 hodin čtení
Where the Wild Winds Are is full to the brim with learning, entertainment, description, scientific fact and conjectural fiction. It is travel writing in excelsis . Jan Morris Literary Review
Loss Soup and Other Stories
- 148 stránek
- 6 hodin čtení
Exploring themes of loss and memory, the narrative intertwines the lives of a journalist at a surreal Dinner of Loss and various eccentric characters across time and space. A nihilistic sea captain drifts on a plastic sea, while a senile Blackbeard reflects on his past. The failed conquistador Cabeza de Vaca navigates the New World, and a couple in a cabin confront the ghosts of ancient hominids. The story also features the emergence of a legendary beast from a Welsh lake, creating a tapestry of extinction and haunting memories.
'With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' - Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb. For two decades the Jewis[Bokinfo].