The Fearful Void

Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Moorhouse has been described as "one of the best writers of our time" (Byron Rogers, The Times), "a brilliant historian" (Dirk Bogarde, Daily Telegraph) and "a writer whose gifts are beyond" category" (Jan Morris, Independent on Sunday). His numerous books -- travel narratives, histories, novels and sporting prints -- have won prizes and been translated into several languages: To the Frontier won the Thomas Cook Award for the best travel book of its year. In 1982 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2006 he became Hon DLitt of the University of Warwick. He has recently concentrated on Tudor history, notably with The Pilgrimage of Grace and, in 2005, Great Harry's Navy, which has just been followed by The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery. Born in Lancashire, he has lived in a hill village in North Yorkshire for many years. Zusammenfassung 'It was because I was afraid that I had decided to attempt a crossing of the great Sahara desert, from west to east, by myself and by camel. The Fearful Void is the moving record of his struggle with fear and loneliness and, ultimately, his coming to terms with the spiritual as well as the physical dangers of the desert.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Moorhouse, Moorhouse Geoffrey
• Assisted by: Geoffre Moorhouse (Editor), Geoffrey Moorhouse (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2008
• EAN: 9780571243570
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24357-0
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / Africa / General, The Sahara, Exploration; Extremes; Faber Finds; Humanity; Pioneers