In Tasmania - Shakespeare, Nicholas
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Abenteuer am Ende der Welt! Die faszinierende Geschichte einer einzigartigen, idyllischen fernen Insel durch zwei turbulente Jahrhunderte hinweg, mitreißend erzählt von Nicholas Shakespeare. 'A beautiful affectionate portrait' Sunday Times
In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chatwins and, inevitably, a family of Shakespeares.

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Abenteuer am Ende der Welt! Die faszinierende Geschichte einer einzigartigen, idyllischen fernen Insel durch zwei turbulente Jahrhunderte hinweg, mitreißend erzählt von Nicholas Shakespeare. 'A beautiful affectionate portrait' Sunday Times
In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chatwins and, inevitably, a family of Shakespeares.
Autorenporträt
Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in Asia and South America. One of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 1993, and considered by the Wall Street Journal as 'one of the best English novelists of our time', his prize-winning books have been translated into twenty-two languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Snowleg, The Dancer Upstairs , Inheritance, Priscilla, Six Minutes in May and acclaimed biographies of Bruce Chatwin and Ian Fleming. His most recent thriller featuring John Dyer was The Sandpit. He has been longlisted for the Booker Prize twice, was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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The narrative is part Peter Carey, part Gothic novel, with plenty of drunkeness, torture,villainy and cannibalism to be aghast at. A fine travel book too Evening Standard