The Collector of Lost Things by Jeremy Page

The Collector of Lost Things by Jeremy Page

The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains of the by-now-extinct Great Auk, a large flightless bird of mythical status. Eliot joins a hunting ship, but the crew and the passengers are not what they seem. Caught in the web of relationships on board, Eliot struggles to understand the motivations of the sociopathic Captain Sykes; the silent First Mate, French; the flamboyant laudanum-addicted Bletchley; and most importantly of all, Bletchley’s beautiful but strange “cousin” Clara. As the ship moves further and further into the wilds of the Arctic Sea, Eliot clings to what he believes in, desperate to save Clara but irrevocably drawn back into a past that haunts him—and a present that confronts him with a myriad of dangers.

“Page shapes a fascinating historical narrative and has moving insights into our sometimes-dubious relationship to the natural world” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), a Best Book of the Year
“Moody and affecting prose buoys this strange and troubling account of an Arctic ocean voyage to the end of the earth. The tension between Saxby's starkly defined moral sensibilities and the commercial motivations of the volatile Captain Sykes gives way to the narrator's own interior struggles, which are more complex than they first appear to be.” -- Publishers Weekly

Jeremy Page, the author of Salt and Sea Change, works as a script editor and writer for FilmFour and the BBC. He lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9781605986418
ISBN 10	1605986410
Titel	The Collector of Lost Things
Autor	Jeremy Page
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Pegasus Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2014-12-23
Seitenanzahl	384
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