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Patrick O'Brian

Hussein: An Entertainment

Harpercollins, 2000

7,00 €

Jena Bookshop

(Jena, Alemania)

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Año de publicación
2000
ISBN
9780002259538
Autor
Patrick O'Brian
Páginas
320
Editores
Harpercollins
Formato
21,8 x 14,5 x 3,3 cm
Materia
0
Descripción
Hardcover/gebunden
Idiomas
Inlgés
Encuadernación
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Descripción

A delightful tale of an elephant handler written by Patrick O'Brian when a very young man. HUSSEIN tells the story of a young mahout -- or elephant handler -- his childhood and life in India and his relationship and adventures with elephants. Patrick was in his early twenties when he wrote it. Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda Leopard, his first book, was written when he was 14, but the dry wit and unsentimental precision O'Brian's readers savour is already in evidence. The book was feted on publication and O'Brian described as the 'boy-Thoreau'. The book was published in England and the United States, and translations appeared in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Japan. In 1938 O'Brian published his next novel, called Hussein: An Entertainment, a marvellously readable adventure story set in India. Reviewers in the United States were particularly enthusiastic: the New York Times compared Hussein favourably to Kipling's Kim, calling it 'a gorgeous enterntainment'. gebraucht vergilbt
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