Elsewhere or Thereabouts

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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From Troy to Arcadia, on the high road to elsewhere and the low road to thereabouts, boarding a ferry 'cross the Mersey and hiking the Jurassic Coast, skating away on Duddingston Loch and dynamiting the frozen rivers of Siberia, lured to the summit and drawn to the edge - Alasdair Paterson plots a course at the cruising speed of the flaneur through the ruins of empires, dreams and good intentions. Though pavement cafes still play a part...

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Utgivningsdatum2014-01-15
Mått140 x 216 x 5 mm
Vikt121 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor86
FörlagShearsman Books
ISBN9781848613270

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Alasdair Paterson was born in Edinburgh and now lives in Exeter. He won an Eric Gregory Award for his poetry in 1976; his last book, On the Governing of Empires, was his his first collection for more than 20 years. The intervening time was spent directing the work of academic libraries in Britain and Ireland, and travelling to Samarkand, Salonika, Stamboul, Siberia, Swaziland, San Francisco, Sidmouth and many other places not beginning with an S.