Treasured Island

Frank Barrett

£9.99

In an unreliable 800 Saab with 120,000 miles on the clock, just like Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh detective Inspector Rebus, Frank Barrett embarks on a literary quest around Britain, from Eliot’s East Coker to Austen’s Bath, Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hartfield to Dracula’s Whitby.

Out of stock

Publish Date: 01/05/2016
ISBN: 9780749578138 Category: Tag:

Description

Inspired by the discovery of his childhood copy of Treasure Island, Frank Barrett embarks on a literary quest around Britain, from Eliot’s East Coker to Austen’s Bath, Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hartfield to Dracula’s Whitby. Armed with a lifetime of reading and his National Trust membership, Frank is on a personal odyssey through the Britain that has inspired so many writers to capture it in lines or verse, the homes that they lived in, the museums that remember them. There will be rain, there will be truculent tour guides, there will be satnav misdemeanors, (there may even be tuberculosis), but Frank will carry on regardless. Where? To the lighthouse.

Additional information

Weight 259 g
Dimensions 203 × 127 × 20 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

272

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

914.1048612 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K