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THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS
Non-Fiction (Memoir) 391 pages
Fourth Estate - August 17, 2005
‘Disarmingly captivating memoir... Unfailingly modest, Maurice relates these stories of a mostly lost world in remarkably clear and detailed prose. Local relationships, family interactions, battles against illness, trading customs and the many types of hunts - all are illuminated by this eminently likable narrator, who, unlike most of his co-workers, took the time to learn the language and ways of his hosts… A wholly fascinating, evocative glimpse of a harsh, lost world.’ -- Starred Kirkus
Biography
The author died in Sussex in 2003 at the age of 89. Anne Tyler said that his posthumously published memoir of going to live with the Inuit at 16, THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS, 'reads like the most riveting novel' and Sir Ranulph Fiennes described it as 'beautifully written'.
Also the author of a novel TALAYSA: AN INUIT GIRL OF THE NINETEEN TWENTIES (ms available).
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