| The Free Fishers Contributor(s): Buchan, John (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798564784931 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $41.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (1.48 lbs) 534 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mr Anthony Lammas, whose long legs had been covering ground at the rate of five miles an hour, slackened his pace, for he felt the need of ordering a mind which for some hours had been dancing widdershins. For one thing the night had darkened, since the moon had set, and the coast track which he followed craved wary walking. But it was the clear dark of a northern April, when, though the details are blurred, the large masses of the landscape are apprehended. He was still aware of little headlands descending to a shadowy gulf which was the Firth. Far out the brazier on the May was burning with a steady glow, like some low-swung planet shaming with its ardour the cold stars. He sniffed the sharp clean scent of the whins above the salt; he could almost detect the brightness of their flowering. They should have been thyme, he thought, thyme and arbutus and tamarisk clothing the capes of the Sicilian sea, for this was a night of Theocritus... .Theocritus What had he to do with Theocritus? It was highly necessary to come to terms with this mood into which he had fallen.For Mr Lammas, a licensed minister of the Kirk and a professor in the University of St Andrews, had just come from keeping strange company. |
