IN TROUBLE AGAIN: A Journey Between the Orinoco and The Amazon

O'Hanlon, Redmond

ISBN 10: 0241123755 / ISBN 13: 9780241123751

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1988

About this Item

Inscribed first edition of the naturalist-adventurer's account of his journey through the Venezuelan jungle. O'Hanlon is known for his journeys to some of the most remote parts of the world, and has been hailed by Bill Bryson as being "probably the finest writer of travel books in the English language, and certainly the most daring." This copy with a warm and cheeky inscription to Jerry Weinstein, then-concierge at the Chelsea Hotel. 9.25'' x 6''. Original black cloth, silver-lettered spine. In original, unclipped (£14.95) color photographic jacket designed by Blackbird Graphics. Illustrated in black and white. [12], 272 pages. Inscribed by O'Hanlon to title page: "To Jerry, the best concierge in the world, from the / world's worst explorer (who has only once found what he was looking for, in the Chelsea) with very best wishes, / Redmond. February, 1987." Jacket with trace sunning to spine. Clean and bright.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IN TROUBLE AGAIN: A Journey Between the Orinoco and The Amazon
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241123755
• ISBN 13: 9780241123751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First printing.
• Condition: Fine in fine jacket.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

This is an account of a trip up the Orinoco river and across the Amazon basin in which the author discovered that poisonous snakes and life-threatening diseases were not the greatest hazards on such a journey - his photographer and the Spanish and Indian crew were the most volatile elements. Redmond O'Hanlon is the author of "Into the Heart of Borneo", a journey on which he was accompanied by the poet James Fenton, who swore afterwards that he would never travel with O'Hanlon again.

About the Author

Redmond O'Hanlon is an explorer in the nineteenth-century mould. In addition to his four bestselling travel books, Into the Heart of Borneo, In Trouble Again, Congo Journey and Trawler, he has published scholarly works on nineteenth-century science and literature. For fifteen years he was the Natural History editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He lives outside Oxford with his wife and two children.