Alan Gould Is A Poet, Essayist And Novelist In He Was Co Winner With Peter Carey Of The Courier Mail Book Of The Year Award For His Novel The Schoonermaster S Dance He Was Also Awarded ACT Book Of The Year For This WorkSarah Tilber Has A Passion For History She Embarks On A Journey Across The World, Determined To Uncover Her Family Tree Through Letters, Interviews And Research, She Compiles A Picture Of Her Great Uncle And A Tragedy Sarah Becomes So Involved She Loses Ties With Family And Drifts Away On The Sea Of The Past
There is properly no history, only biography Emerson.Really enjoyed this book, could relate to Sarah s enthusiasm passion for history There s a lot in this story that will appeal to Maritime devotees and those into shipping history from the late 1800 s to the 1940 s Interesting stuff on how she traced her great uncle s seafaring days.Interesting how the past and one s ancestors multitudinous lives get inside your bones Sarah asks Does the
Keen to support both authors and bookshops, I ve just bought Chris Flynn s Mammoth and Robbie Arnott s The Rain Heron, which caused a minor crisis on the A G Australian authors section of the TBR No room I was sorely tempted to read one or other of them right away, but The Schoonermaster s Dance waved at me, reminding me that I d shelved it back in 2013 after a successful hunt for Alan Gould s backlist after I discovered The Seaglass Spiral.So he