Patrick Marnham

Broschiertes Buch

Snake Dance

Journeys Beneath a Nuclear Sky

Beschreibung

Warburg, condemned to obscurity and confined to a mental hospital, regained his sanity by studying the rituals of the Native Americans of the Southwest who, for thousands of years, practiced the ritual of the 'snake dance' in an attempt to harness the power of lightening.

Autor

Patrick Marnham is a biographer and travel writer. He began his career as a reporter on Private Eye and has written for many newspapers including the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the New York Times and Libération. He has worked as a BBC script writer and a special correspondent in Africa, the Middle East and Central America. He has been literary editor of the Spectator and was the first Paris Correspondent of the Independent. He has written lives of Diego Rivera, Georges Simenon, Jean Moulin and Mary Wesley. His books have won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Marsh Biography Award. To accompany this book Marnham has written the prize-winning documentary film Snake Dance, directed by Manu Riche, the Belgian film maker. Patrick Marnham lives with his family in Oxfordshire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 139099
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780099542247
• ISBN-10: 0099542242
• Artikelnr.: 41151595

Rezensionen

A beautifully written book - informative and entertaining Piers Paul Read Spectator