Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents (Armchair Traveller) - Softcover

Orsenna, Érik

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906598746 ISBN 13: 9781906598747

Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Concerned about the possible demise of the Gulf Stream, Érik Orsenna read, investigated, interviewed experts, and traveled from the violent swirls off the coast of Florida to the maelstroms of Norway to better understand this most important of ocean currents. Part homage, part investigation, A Portrait of the Gulf Stream allows readers to join him on a voyage of discovery. From writing about the sea as varied as that of Socrates and Hemingway to scientific theory both ancient and modern, we discover the secrets of this most powerful and mysterious current.

Érik Orsenna is a Goncourt Prize?winning novelist and one of the forty "immortals" of the Académie Française, where he holds the seat formerly held by Commander Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

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Erik Orsenna is a Goncourt-prize winning novelist, sailor, economist, jurist, presidential adviosr (to Mitterrand), member of the council d’Etat (like being a British law lord for governmental matters) and one of the 40 ?immortals” of the Academie Francaise where he holds the seat formerly held by Commander Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

Érik Orsenna has written seven novels and been awarded the Roger Nimier and Goncourt prizes. He was elected to the French Academy in 1998 where he occupies Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s former seat. His other works to have been translated include the novel The Indies Enterprise.

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• Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1906598746
• ISBN 13: 9781906598747
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 190
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