Sea Room - The Story of One Man, Three Islands and Half a Million Puffins

Informationen zum Autor Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives at Sissinghust Castle in Kent. Klappentext 20 years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson he inherited the Shiants, 3 lonely islands set in a dangerous sea 5 miles off Lewis; only a stone bothy for accommodation - and one of the most beautiful places on the planet. A world of hermits and stories, of birds and boats, of fisherman and sheep, 'Sea Room' is these islands' story, written with passion and poetry - a celebration for us all of island life. "Exceptionally well done, beautiful written, personal yet panoramic." OBSERVER An extraordinarily outward-looking book...a truly passionate attention to detail...A love letter no one else could hope to write so well." NOEL MALCOLM, 'Sunday Telegraph' Generous, exuberant and a vividly written narrative...history, travel writing and memoir of the best sort." DAVID CRANE, 'Spectator' "Sharply observed, a finely written work, one to be savoured, turned over and over like a good whisky." ANTHONY SATTIN, 'Sunday Times' Zusammenfassung Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Nicolson
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.06.2002
• EAN: 9780006532019
• ISBN: 978-0-00-653201-9
• No. of pages: 391
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, TRAVEL / Pictorials, HISTORY / General, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, Local History, Western Isles, Outer Hebrides, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works