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My Father, Sandy

Door Nicholas Wollaston

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#374788-XB45
Titel
My Father, Sandy
Auteur
Wollaston, Nicholas
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Short Books
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
1904095445
ISBN13
9781904095446
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
'When did I last see my father? At tea-time, is the real answer - watching him eat bread and butter with quince jam. It became my final vision of him. A blurred, oblique vignette from the last days of his life, preserved for the rest of mine.' Nicholas Wollaston was four years old when his father was shot dead in 1934 by one of his Cambridge students. Alexander Wollaston, doctor, botanist, explorer, had led extraordinarily tough expeditions to New Guinea, the Sahara, and the Himalayas, in his search for undiscovered flora and fauna. In 1924, in tweeds and leather shoes, he accompanied Mallory on his first trip to Everest. My Father Sandy is a son's tribute - a personal voyage of discovery - part memoir, part travel history, but, above all, a profoundly moving love story.
Pagina's
187
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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