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Title: THE FETISH ROOM
THE EDUCATION OF A NATURALIST
By: Redmond O'Hanlon, Rudi Rotthier, Jane Hedley-Prole (Trans)
Format: Paperback

List price: £12.99


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ISBN 10: 1846684145
ISBN 13: 9781846684142
Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 10 March, 2011
Pages: 224
Description: Part biography, part musings on biology and nature, this title presents a moving portrait of one of our greatest travel writers and eccentrics.
Synopsis: Redmond O'Hanlon is known as an amiable anti-hero - the debunker of classical exploration literature - and here on this joint road trip with journalist Rudi Rotthier, O'Hanlon visits places from his dark childhood. With a fine sense of the comic and beautifully rendered observations of the people they encounter, Rotthier excels in painting a portrait of this English author as he details the escapades of their journey. O'Hanlon provides a stream of jokey anecdotes which offset the bleakness of almost all his memories as do their conversations on God, Darwin and nature. Plagued by depression and scarred by his childhood and sadistic teachers, O'Hanlon drinks excessively, pops caffeine and nicotine pills. One of his most important possessions is a jar containing some of the charred remains of a close friend who committed suicide. In his house in Oxfordshire piles of books have spilled over tables and shelves and tottering mounds of dirty crockery obscure the sink. Yet, unlikely as it may seem, this is a remarkably light-hearted, sensitive and funny book.
Illustrations: 8pp
Publication: UK
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Prizes: Long-listed for Dolman Best Travel Book of the Year Award 2012.
Returns: Returnable
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