Travelling with Ghosts
An intimate and inspiring journey
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
12 June 2018
Summary
‘A cross between H is for Hawk and Wild’ - Stylist
‘A courageous memoir of love and loss … compelling’ - Sunday Express
‘Intimate and inspiring’ - Observer
‘Rich and absorbing’ - Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love
‘A brave and necessary record of love, as beautiful as it is heartbreaking’ - Ann Patchett, auth…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474605984 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1474605982 |
| Author: | Shannon Leone Fowler |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 12 June 2018 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 138mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
A cross between H IS FOR HAWK and WILD, this beautifully written tale follows Fowler’s travels through Eastern Europe - STYLIST
A heart-breaking story about the randomness of tragedy told with great courage and tenacityGloriously rendered, beautifully written, but utterly devastating … intimate and inspiring - OBSERVERA rich and absorbing memoir that shows the reader what it feels like to lose your future in a matter of seconds … Shannon learns to travel on, to get back in the ocean and to build a new life - The TimesHeartbreaking but beautiful … as much as this is a tale of grief and loss, it’s one of love too - BustleAbout The Author
Shannon Leone Fowler
Shannon Leone Fowler is a marine biologist, writer, and single mother of three young children, living in London. Since her doctorate on Australian sea lions, she’s taught marine ecology in the Bahamas and Galapagos, led a university course on killer whales in the San Juan islands, spent a number of seasons as a marine mammal biologist onboard ships in both the Arctic and Antarctic, taught graduate students field techniques while studying Weddell seals on the Ross Ice Shelf, and worked as a science writer at National Public Radio in Washington, DC. TRAVELING WITH GHOSTS is her first book.
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