Playing With Water - Alone on a Philippine Island (Paperback, Main)

'One June day in 1953 aged twelve I sat in a classroom and drew a map.' The map that the young Hamilton-Paterson drew was of a tropical island, and it prefigured with uncanny accuracy the Philippine island on which, thirty years later, he would spend a full third of each year, entirely alone. It had a coral strand, a field of grass, vertical volcanic cliffs and no water. He survived by fishing and by drinking rainwater. This is a book about a remarkable and self-sufficient writer's 'desire to be lost', and the journey of a conventionally educated Englishman to an island on the far side of the world that aroused in him a feeling of discovering a place he always knew. Hamilton-Paterson writes with incomparable skill about the hard beauty of the sea, of coral reefs and the animals that live in them, and about the fishermen who eke a living among the labyrinth of islands that make up the Philippines.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2014
Authors:	James Hamilton-Paterson
Dimensions:	198 x 126 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	304
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-31399-0
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General Books > Travel > Travel writing > General Promotions
LSN:	0-571-31399-X
Barcode:	9780571313990

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