Playing With Water : Alone on a Philippine Island Paperback / softback
by James Hamilton-Paterson
Paperback / softback
Description
'One June day in 1953 aged twelve I sat in a classroom and drew a map.' The map that the young Hamilton-Paterson drew was of a tropical island, and it prefigured with uncanny accuracy the Philippine island on which, thirty years later, he would spend a full third of each year, entirely alone.
It had a coral strand, a field of grass, vertical volcanic cliffs and no water.
He survived by fishing and by drinking rainwater. This is a book about a remarkable and self-sufficient writer's 'desire to be lost', and the journey of a conventionally educated Englishman to an island on the far side of the world that aroused in him a feeling of discovering a place he always knew. Hamilton-Paterson writes with incomparable skill about the hard beauty of the sea, of coral reefs and the animals that live in them, and about the fishermen who eke a living among the labyrinth of islands that make up the Philippines.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:16/10/2014
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- ISBN:9780571313990
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:16/10/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571313990
