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Deeper than indigo : tracing Thomas Machell, forgotten explorer
- Title
- Deeper than indigo : tracing Thomas Machell, forgotten explorer / Jenny Balfour Paul.
- Author
- Balfour-Paul, Jenny.
- Publication
- Surrey : Medina Pub., ©2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-7737 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 320 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Set on the edges of time, this intriguing odyssey, part biography, part memoir and part historical detective story, has a magical extra dimension. Tracking Thomas, an elusive young man of the past, the author follows him out of the British Library to the China Seas and remote islands of Polynesia, to Indias plantation lands in the days of the British Raj, and through the deserts of Arabia. Finding she is often in her own footsteps too, can she span what seems an unbridgeable gap between the known and the unknown and solve a mystery? A unique and enthralling love story."--Publisher's website.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Note
- Map on lining papers.
- Contents
- 1. Meeting Thomas -- 2. Running away from home -- 3. Passages to India -- 4. Exotic landfalls -- 5. Opium wars -- 6. Going home -- 7. Rendezvous at the rectory -- 8. Coals to Nuku Hiva -- 9. Marquesan magic -- 10. Guano and missions to Patagonia -- 11. The ghosts of Crackenthorpe -- 12. Into the eye of the wind -- 13. Singing the blues -- 14. Kissing the crescent and the cross -- 15. Limbo -- 16. Memories of indigo -- 17. Suspended between two magnets -- 18. 'Further travels and adventures of a vagrant son' -- up the Indus -- 19. Coffee time -- 20. Closing the gap -- 21. Between the known and the unknown -- 22. Beginning of the end -- 23. Rowing into eternity -- 24. Into the New World -- 25. Back to the beginning -- 26. Moments of epiphany -- 27. Eureka! -- 28. Machells reunited -- 29. Pirates of the Arabian Seas -- 30. Come back yesterday -- 31. Twist in the tale.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7737
- ISBN
- 9781909339538
- 1909339539
- 9781909339569
- 1909339563
- LCCN
- 2014482579
- OCLC
- 913342704
- Author
- Balfour-Paul, Jenny.
- Title
- Deeper than indigo : tracing Thomas Machell, forgotten explorer / Jenny Balfour Paul.
- Publisher
- Surrey : Medina Pub., ©2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1765-1947
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7737