A Length of Road
Finding Myself in the Footsteps of John Clare: A John Murray Original
$42.38
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
27 September 2021
Summary
In 1841 the ‘peasant poet’ John Clare escaped from an asylum in Epping Forest, where he had been kept for four years, and walked over eighty miles home to Northamptonshire. Suffering from poor mental health, Clare was attempting to return to his idealized first love, Mary, unaware that she had died three years earlier.
In 1995, with his life in crisis and his own mental health fragile, Robert decides to retrace Clare’s route along the Great North Road over a punishing four-day walk. A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473697935 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147369793X |
| Author: | Robert Hamberger |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | JM Originals |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 27 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 132mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Robert Hamberger
Robert Hamberger is a published poet of six pamphlets and three collections. His works have been broadcast on Radio 4 and published in the Observer, New Statesman, The Spectator, Poetry Review and Gay Times. This is his first non-fiction book.
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