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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 the Far East and South America. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Snowleg and The Dancer Upstairs, which was chosen by the American Libraries Association in 1997 as the year's best novel, and in 2001 was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich. His most recent novel is Secrets of the Sea. He is married with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford.
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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