Robert Twigger

Red Nile

The Biography of the World's Greatest River

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Produktbeschreibung

A rip-roaring yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by Robert Twigger, award-winning author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. 'A tour de force' FINANCIAL TIMES.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Group / W&N
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 131mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781780220932
• ISBN-10: 1780220936
• Artikelnr.: 39630925

Autorenporträt

ROBERT TWIGGER has won the Newdigate Prize for poetry, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His twelve books have been translated into over twenty languages and cover both fiction and non-fiction, memoir and travel. He spent a year training with the Tokyo riot police, crossed Canada in a homemade birchbark canoe and was the first person to traverse entirely on foot the Egyptian Great Sand Sea. His quarterly comic of memoir and travel, This Simple Life, is available at roberttwigger.com

Rezensionen

Twigger's book on the history of the river Nile is one of the those unexpected great reads... This is a non-fiction book that reads like a great, page-turning novel. CATHOLIC HERALD 20140418