Bruce Chatwin, 1940 in Sheffield geboren, arbeitete zunächst als Kunstsachverständiger bei Sotheby“s, später als Journalist und freier Schriftsteller. Er starb 1989 in Nizza. Auf Deutsch erschienen u.a. Utz (Roman, 1989), Traumpfade (Roman, 1990), Was mache ich hier (Reiseberichte, 1991), Wiedersehen mit Patagonien (zusammen mit Paul Theroux, 1992), Auf Reisen (Photographien und Notizen, 1993), Der Traum des Ruhelosen (1996), Verschlungene Pfade (1999), Auf dem schwarzen Berg (Roman 2002) sowie Der Vizekönig von Ouidah (Roman, 2003).
26 Ebooks von Nicholas Shakespeare
Bruce Chatwin: Der Nomade
Er schrieb, wie er lebte: ohne Ruhe, ohne Rast. Bruce Chatwin war ein literarischer Nomade, seine Bücher wie ‚In Patagonien‘ oder ‚Traumpfade‘ machten ihn weltberühmt. Hinter dem Autor, der auf Reise …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Priscilla
Als Nicholas Shakespeare eine Kiste mit Briefen und Tagebüchern seiner verstorbenen Tante findet, wird er erstmals mit ihrer geheimen Vergangenheit konfrontiert. Die Priscilla, an die er sich erinner …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Secrets of the Sea
“A story as brooding and insular as the Tasmanian town in which it is set. . . . Expertly crafted, the novel illuminates love’s craggy depths.” —Publishers Week …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Priscilla
When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box of documents belonging to his late aunt, Priscilla, he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Oddfellows
On 1 January 1915, ramifications from the First World War, raging half a world away, were felt in Broken Hill, Australia, when in a guerrilla-style military operation, four citizens were killed and s …
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Bruce Chatwin & Elizabeth Chatwin: Under The Sun
Bruce Chatwin is one of the most significant British novelists and travel writers of our time. His books have become modern-day classics which defy categorisation, inspired by and reflecting his incr …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: In Tasmania
A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer’s discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographe …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Inheritance
What would you do if you suddenly and unexpectedly inherited 17million? This is what happens to Andy Larkham, recently jilted lover, and resentfully underpaid publishing minion. Arriving late to the …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Dancer Upstairs
This novel explores one of the most astonishing stories in the whole history of twentieth century terrorism. Colonel Rejas was the policeman charged with the task of capturing the Peruvian guerrilla …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Snowleg
A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. Her situation touches h …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: In Tasmania
In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cas …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin’s death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia.Chatwin himself was different things to diff …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Secrets of the Sea
Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve year …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: High Flyer
Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of ambassadorshi …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Vision Of Elena Silves
In the Amazon city of Bel n, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. They sit in the square every day under the hot sun, remembering the women they loved and the world when …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Priscilla
The astonishing true story of a young woman’s adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soir es a …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: In Tasmania
From the renowned British author of The Dancer Upstairs comes this “meticulous, lyrical history” of the remote island and his family’s connection to it (Publishers Weekly). H …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Six Minutes in May
A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds. A gripping story of Churchill s unlikely rise to power Observer London …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Stories from Other Places
Nicholas Shakespeare s collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, Oddfellows , tells the …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Boomerang
Was tust du, wenn du allein die Zukunft der Welt in den Händen hältst? Marvar, iranischer Atomphysiker am Oxforder Clarendon Labor, hat den Algorithmus für die perfekte Kernfusion gefunden. Ein Wisse …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Sandpit
‚A remarkable contemporary thriller… A triumph‘ WILLIAM BOYDA journalist becomes embroiled in a world of secrets and paranoia when a nuclear scientist goes missing.When John Dyer returns to Oxford …
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Bruce Chatwin: In Patagonia
‚The book that redefined travel writing‘ Guardian Bruce Chatwin sets off on a journey through South America in this wistful classic travel book With its unique, roving structure and beautiful descrip …
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W. Somerset Maugham: Cakes And Ale
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARECakes and Ale is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom. As he traces the fortunes of …
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Nicholas Shakespeare: Ian Fleming
A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. *WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-F …
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