| Venice in the Valleys Contributor(s): Noyes, Ray (Author) |
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ISBN: 1912056437 ISBN-13: 9781912056439 Publisher: Wordcatcher Publishing OUR PRICE: $12.59 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Series: Strange Life of Horatio Evans |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.68 lbs) 314 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Fogle family, the rich landowners of Abertump has a strange son, Marmaduke Wellington Fogle, who has returned penniless from his grand tour of Europe. He spent most of his time and their money tobogganing in Austria and lazing around Venice, where he fell in love with gondolas. Horatio had already tried using the canal for boating, but failed. So here is another chance for him to try again, this time using Fogle money. That Marmaduke insists on having gondolas, which Horatio has never heard of (he also thinks Venice is near Wrexham), causes him genuine problems. Where will he get them? Since he always refuses help, he decides to make them - rather special, and very Welsh, ones. Luckily for Horatio, Marmaduke, like his father, always adopts the philosophy of never actually doing anything but 'leaving it up to the chaps' to sort out. This provides space and time for Horatio to manage the construction of the gondolas himself with disastrous and rather comic results. Venice is not in imminent danger of facing stiff competition from Abertump |
Contributor Bio(s): Noyes, Ray: - They say that to be a good scientist one must have a good imagination. Ray Noyes would like to think that his time spent at CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, so exercised his imagination to prepare it for writing satirical books about Horatio Evans. Ray studied under a Zen master for some twenty years or so and eventually was given permission to teach basic Zen, which he did at a Buddhist retreat centre in the hills of mid-Wales, near Llandovery. |