James Tait Black Memorial Prizes
The Book of Talbot
A biography of Talbot Clifton that traces his life through family history and memories of travel. The individual life emerges in close relation to land, class, and movement.
Work Information
One life comes into focus through family history and the memory of travel.
Centering on the restless traveler Talbot Clifton, the book layers family relations and period atmosphere over its portrait of him. It reads less like a bare record than a wide-angle biography of a life.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Wildside Press
- Published
- 2011-10-31
- Pages
- 458 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 2.59 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781434414755
- ISBN-10
- 1434414752
- Price
- 5372 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
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Reviews
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An unusual book about an unusual man, Talbot Clifton, who inherited a fortune at the end of the nineteenth century and spent his time travelling the world on wild adventures from the arctic to the tropics. He loved finding new species then shooting them and eating them. He even dined on defrosted mammoth. His widow violet wrote the book as a kind of eulogy to her hero. Amazingly it got her nominated for the Nobel prize for literature. It isn't quite that good, but it is a rollicking yarn.
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Einer der wilden Entdecker der Jahrhundertwende. Amerika, Alaska, Russland, Afrika, ein früher Automobilist. Trotzdem feinsinnig und ignorant, ein wilder Gutmensch? Entscheiden Sie selbst, aber ein sehr gutes Englisch-Wörterbuch ist von Nöten! Nicht leicht zu lesen aber trotzdem packend. Für die unter uns, die die vergangenen Entdecker beneiden.