Big Snake
Big Snake
$39.19
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2000
Summary
About to be married, Robert Twigger decides on his last great adventure as a bachelor. Surfing the net, he discovers the Roosevelt Prize for the capture of a live 30 foot python. Armed only with a tin of High Toast Snuff (deadly if sniffed by a snake), Twigger sets off into the remote jungles of Indonesia in search of his prey.
Along the way, he investigates the legendarily beautiful women of Sulawesi, treads in Nabokov’s footsteps, looks for giant snakes beneath the sewers of Kuala L…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753808573 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753808579 |
| Author: | Robert Twigger |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2000 |
| Weight: | 275g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 167mm x 25mm |
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Twigger’s adventures are vastly entertaining and he relates them as well as he seeks his zoological goal
Twigger’s adventures are vastly entertaining and he relates them as well as he seeks his zoological goal - Publishing News
There are travelogue, natural history and mythology here, and the hunt is always entertaining and often hilarious. Twigger is a generous and easygoing observer and participant, even when the going gets rough. - Sunday TimesFunny, immensely readable … Twigger has found a narrative voice all too rare in contemporary travel writing: clear-eyed, unaffected, deadpan, slyly witty and unobtrusively erudite. By the end you cease to care whether or not he fulfils his mission… Merely to travel in his company is pleasure enough - Mail on Sunday - James DelingpolePart travelogue, part boy’s own adventure story - The MirrorEchoes of Gerard Durrell’s trips crossed with Redmond O’Hanlon’s foray into the heart of Borneo… a fantastic book - Daily Mail - Georgia MetcalfeA yarn that manages to be ripping, thoughtful and at times very, very funny - MaximA wonderfully enjoyable tale - IndependentMoving and comic, both a poetic quest and a real adventure, Big Snake paints a hitherto unseen portrait of the Malay and Indonesian archipelagos and will leave you checking under your bed for your own hidden monster snake. A terrific read - Irish NewsAbout The Author
Robert Twigger
Robert Twigger won the Newdigate prize for poetry in 1985. He is the author of Angry White Pyjamas, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, Big Snake, The Extinction Club, Being a Man and Voyageur.
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