Water Music - Hardcover

Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316104671 ISBN 13: 9780316104678

Publisher: Little Brown and Co, 1981

Synopsis

Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Water Music. A Novel. First Edition. Boston, Atlantic - Little, Brown, 1981. Octavo. 437 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine or even better condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author. Water Music is the first novel by T. C. Boyle, first published in 1982. It is a semi-fictional historical adventure novel that is set in the late 18th and early 19th century. It follows the parallel adventures and intertwining fates of its protagonists Ned Rise, a luckless petty criminal, and the famous explorer Mungo Park - the first a purely fictional character, the latter based on a historical person. The book takes place in various locales in Scotland, England and Western Africa. It revolves around two Imperial British expeditions into the interior of Western Africa in an effort to find and explore the Niger River. The novel is loosely based on historical sources, including Mungo Park's 1816 book, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa. However, as Boyle admits in his foreword to Water Music, he does not claim historical accuracy or even faithfulness to the contemporary accounts, whose reliability is doubtful anyway. (Wikipedia)

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown and Co
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0316104671
• ISBN 13: 9780316104678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 437
• Illustrator: Illustrated