Theatre Of Fish
Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cornerstone
Published:4th May '06
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An extraordinary journey across the magnificent, bizarre coast of Newfoundland and Labrador.
John Gimlette's travels through this harsh and awesome landscape, the eastern extreme of the Americas, broadly mirrors that of Dr Eliot Curwen, his great-grandfather, who spent a summer there as a doctor in 1893, and who was witness to some of the most beautiful ice and cruelest poverty in the British Empire.John Gimlette's travels through this harsh and awesome landscape, the eastern extreme of the Americas, broadly mirrors that of Dr Eliot Curwen, his great-grandfather, who spent a summer there as a doctor in 1893, and who was witness to some of the most beautiful ice and cruelest poverty in the British Empire. Using Curwen's extraordinarily frank journal, John Gimlette revisits the places his great-grandfather encountered and along the way explores his own links with this brutal land.
'Terrific stuff... Hugely entertaining... As a descriptive writer, a master of the telling observation and the well-chosen epithet, [Gimlette] is in the highest class.' -- Max Davidson * Daily Telegraph *
'An exhilarating [book], lit up by the vividness of the reporting, the sense of history it conveys, and the irresistible verve of Gimlette's prose. It told me a great deal I did not know and am glad to know, and entertained me greatly' * Sunday Telegraph *
'John Gimlette is a writer of vivid comical prose... Mingles ancestral history and humorous anecdote... Highly entertaining' * Spectator *
'A sprawling travelogue of fascinating anecdotes, flashes of brilliant wit' * Guardian *
'With his quiet respectability shining throughout, Gimlette's tale is not just a travel yarn or a family history, it tells a story in its own right too' * Sunday Express *
ISBN: 9780099453253
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm
Weight: 270g
384 pages