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Letters to Poseidon by Cees Nooteboom
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to a god? From his Mediterranean garden on the island of Menorca, Cees Nooteboom writes to the trident-wielding deity, Poseidon, initiating a dialogue not only with the past, as Alberto Manguel observes in his P ...Show more
Letters to Poseidon by Cees Nooteboom
35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Roman emperor Caligula famously called off an invasion of Britain and instead ordered his legions into the surf to attack the god of the sea. Cees Nooteboom is more civil. As autumn falls each year he writes Poseidon a letter requesting permission to return to his home in Minorca the following sprin ...Show more
Roads to Berlin by Cees Nooteboom
29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive appreciation of its difficult passage to reunification ...Show more
Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water by Cees Nooteboom
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Jimmy Mullen Newcastle C Ser.
"Witty and meditative by turns, the overall effect is like being shown around by a wonderfully self-effacing, but impressively erudite guide" The Sunday Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR"Nooteboom has achieved the impossible: to say something new about the ageless city about which everything has been said" ALBERT ...Show more
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