Jonathan Downes

Broschiertes Buch

Duck Billed Platitudes

Beschreibung

The stuff in this book is not dated. It is not annotated – and there has been no attempt to put it into any historical or socio-political context. Why? Precisely because the vast majority of this stuff is lightweight, hopefully easy to read, and hopefully entertaining. It is a mixture of editorials, some book reviews, and a few feature articles, which have been taken almost at random from stuff that I wrote between 2013 – 2016 in a magazine called Gonzo Weekly, of which I am the founding editor. If I may quote, somewhat out of context, Mark Twain: "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE". To which I shall only add that I hope that it affords you some little amusement. Hail Eris. Love and peace. Jon Downes.

Autor

Jonathan Downes (born 1959) is a naturalist, cryptozoologist, author, editor, film-maker, poet, novelist, activist, journalist, composer and singer-songwriter, with a background in radical politics and mental health care. He is Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology. His father, the explorer and Colonial Service Officer J. T. Downes (1925-2006), wrote several books on a wide range of subjects, such as African history, theology and the Devonshire dialect. His mother Mary Downes (née Rawlins) (1922-2002) was a broadcaster and author who published several collections of Nigerian folklore under the pen-name `Yar Kunama`. As a child he lived in Nigeria, and then Hong Kong (then a British Crown Colony), and returned to the UK in 1971, when his father was 'invalided out' of the Hong Kong government. Having suffered from manic-depression for years, Downes is an activist for mental health issues. Between 1985 and their divorce in 1996 he was married to Alison Huntingford. On 21 July 2007 he married his second wife Corinna Newton Downes who died of cancer on 16 August 2020. He has two stepdaughters and a granddaughter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CFZ Communications
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781909488540
• ISBN-10: 1909488542
• Artikelnr.: 50991097