The Saddest Pleasure

Autori

• Moritz Thomsen

Parametri

• 288 pagine
• 11 ore di lettura

• Autobiografie e memorie
• Biografie e pensieri
• Mappe e viaggi
• Saggistica
• Turismo / Viaggi

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Abruptly expelled from his farm in Ecuador at the age of sixty-two, Moritz Thomsen indulges in that saddest of pleasures - travel - taking a trip to Brazil and ultimately a journey up the great Amazon River by boat.Assaulted by ghosts and memories at every turn, as his journey unfolds he re-examines his life to understand how he came to be living a life of self-imposed poverty and hardship. Outwardly he sails up the Amazon towards Manaus, giving us poignant and limpid descriptions of the river, yet inwardly a shattering romantic symphony rages, running from the depths of human misery to life's small but exquisite transcendent pleasures. He spares the reader nothing.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2019

(In brossura)