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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
por Torday, Paul
- Usado
- Brochura
- first
- Condição
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0297851721
- ISBN 13
- 9780297851721
- Livreiro
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Third impression of the First Edition. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 321 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. The cover has bumps and marks indicating prior use but is in very good condition overall. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout and Salmon' - who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen - a project that will change his life, and the course of British political history for ever. With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters - including a visionary Sheikh, a weasely spin doctor, Fred's devilish wife and a few thousand transplanted salmon - SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN is a novel about hypocrisy and bureaucracy, dreams and deniability, and the transforming power of faith and love. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0297851721. ISBN/EAN: 9780297851721. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4694. . 9780297851721
Sinopse
Dr. Alfred Jones is a henpecked, slightly pompous middle-aged scientist at the National Centre for Fisheries Excellence in London when he is approached by a mysterious sheikh about an outlandish plan to introduce the sport of salmon fishing into the Yemen. Dr. Jones refuses, but the project, however scientifically absurd, catches the eye of British politicians, who pressure him to work on it. His diaries of the Yemen Salmon Project, from beginning to glorious, tragic end, form the narrative backbone of this novel; interspersed throughout are government memos, e-mails, letters, and interview transcripts that deftly capture the absurdity of bureaucratic dysfunction. With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters—including a weasel-like spin doctor, a missing soldier and his intrepid fiancée, and Dr. Jones’s own devilish wife—Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is the whimsical story of an unlikely hero who discovers true love, finds himself first a pawn and then a victim of political spin, and learns to believe in the impossible.
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- Livreiro
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 4694
- Título
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- Autor
- Torday, Paul
- Formato/Encadernação
- Softcover
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Encadernação
- Brochura
- ISBN 10
- 0297851721
- ISBN 13
- 9780297851721
- Editorial
- Weidenfeld & Nicholson
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 2007
- Palavras-chave
- BZDB137 fishing, salmon, yemen, great britain, foreign relations, Fiction; ISBN: 0297851721 EAN: 9780297851721 Torday, Paul Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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