Sailing By Starlight

Informationen zum Autor Alex Capus is a French-Swiss novelist who writes in German. His works of fiction and non-fiction that have been translated into English include A Matter of Time (2009), Leon and Louise (2012) Almost Like Spring (2013) and Skidoo (2014). Klappentext Stevenson ended his days living on the island of Samoa in luxury, but from where did his riches originate? 'Confiding, easy-going, intimate, the writer spins a new - a mind-bendingly new - account from this well-worn cloth. Fluent, charming, but mischievous, the story slips past like a tantalising vision but leaves a strange flavour behind.' '[A] fascinating investigation...' -- Giles Foden Zusammenfassung Follows every step of Robert Louis Stevenson's last years, studying every clue left behind by the Scottish writer and reaching his own conclusion about the most dramatic turn in Stevenson's life: his decision to settle in Samoa, where the climate was poison for his already diseased lungs.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Capus, Capus Alex
• Assisted by: John Brownjohn (Translation), Simon Pare (Translation), Pare Simon (Translation)
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2013
• EAN: 9781907973741
• ISBN: 978-1-907973-74-1
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 212 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Armchair Traveller; Literary Travellers
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Schweizer SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Swissness, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues