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Charles Fenn, a sixty-year-old writer, set off from Ceylon with a friend to sail to the Maldive Islands. But what started as a leisurely holiday turned into a nightmare when his friend was drowned during a storm and he himself marooned on a remote atoll. Fenn had little but a few tins of food he had managed to salvage, a pencil stub, and enough paper to keep a diary.
In this diary, he chronicles the day-to-day struggle to stay alive, alternating his accounts of hunger and thirst, of fishing and fire-lighting, of improvisation and experiment, with his notes for a book he was planning on the New Veda. The resulting soliloquies cover an impressive range of subjects from Chinese culture to the life of beetles, marriage, sex, and death.And then a tidal wave, which destroys half the atoll, provides a chance of escape. A wrecked motor launch that Fenn is able to repair is washed up on shore. he names his makeshift craft Providence and sets off across the Indian Ocean.
This is one of the most unusual books to appear in a long time. The two elements, action and soliloquy, are counterpointed in a remarkable way, and the result is a book of originality and force.
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SEAN PIDGEON was born in Reading, England, and studied physics and astrophysics at the University of Manchester. He subsequently began a career in science publishing as a book editor, working at Oxford University Press and Macmillan. He moved to the United States in 1990 and is currently vice-president and publisher at John Wiley & Sons in Hoboken, New Jersey. He lives in New Jersey with his family. Visit him online at www.seanpidgeon.com or on Facebook
“Finding Camlann delivers a wallop of pleasure to both the head and the heart. It is suffused with an irresistible sense of mystery, its many paths, whether to the unknowable past or to the inner truth of those we love, disappearing into swirling fog.”
- Rebecca Goldstein, author of Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
“Sean Pidgeon has given us an experience so rich and engrossing that attempts to slow my reading to savor the novel longer were foiled by the fact that I couldn't put it down. If you are not already excited by the fascinating legends and vibrant scholarship around King Arthur, you will be once beginning Finding Camlann.”
- Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club
“Beautifully written, intelligent, and ingenious, with an unusual lyricism and a wonderful feeling for the depth of time.”
- Gillian Bradshaw, author of The Hawk of May
“Finding Camlann is a lovely book, simultaneously an emotional and a historical journey. It finds new things to say about the legend of King Arthur, and says them in a touching and compelling contemporary tale of love.”
- Iain Pears, author of An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Dream of Scipio
- Rebecca Goldstein, author of Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
“Sean Pidgeon has given us an experience so rich and engrossing that attempts to slow my reading to savor the novel longer were foiled by the fact that I couldn't put it down. If you are not already excited by the fascinating legends and vibrant scholarship around King Arthur, you will be once beginning Finding Camlann.”
- Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club
“Beautifully written, intelligent, and ingenious, with an unusual lyricism and a wonderful feeling for the depth of time.”
- Gillian Bradshaw, author of The Hawk of May
“Finding Camlann is a lovely book, simultaneously an emotional and a historical journey. It finds new things to say about the legend of King Arthur, and says them in a touching and compelling contemporary tale of love.”
- Iain Pears, author of An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Dream of Scipio
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0393346528
- ISBN 13 9780393346527
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages416
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Despite the wealth of scholarship that pretends to offer proof, archaeologist Donald Gladstone knows there is no solid evidence that a real King Arthur ever existed. Still, the great popular tales spun by medieval historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, and embroidered by Chretien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, and so many others, must have found their inspiration somewhere. A dramatic archaeological find at Stonehenge and the rediscovery of an old Welsh battle poem, buried among the manuscripts of the Bodleian Library, open up enticingand misleadingnew possibilities. When the beguiling Julia Llewellyn, a linguist working on the Oxford English Dictionary, joins Donald on the trail of clues, their fervent enthusiasms, unusual gifts, and unfulfilled yearnings prove a combustible mix. Their impassioned search for truths buried deep in the past, amid the secret places and half-forgotten legends of the British countryside, must ultimately transform themand all our understandings of the origins of Arthur. An intellectual and emotional journey of myriad pleasures, Finding Camlann is at its heart a love storynot only of romantic love but also the love between parents and grown children; the intense feelings of professors and students; the love of language, place, and home; and the thrill of scholarly research and detective work. Throughout, Sean Pidgeons lyrical prose brings together history, myth, and dream, sweeping the reader into the mysteries of the past and the pure delight of storytelling. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR005492233
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