VOYAGE TO DESOLATION ISLAND by Kauffmann, Jean-Paul ISBN 1860469264
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Kauffmann follows in the footsteps of the 18th century sailor Yves-Joseph Kerguelen, who gave his name to the archipelago he discovered in the Indian Ocean. When he made his discovery, Kerguelen was convinced he had found Hell.
Paradise or Purgatory? A journey to a land of atonement. It is worth remembering that while he was working in the Lebanon as a journalist in 1985, Jean-Paul Kauffmann was kidnapped and was not released until 1988. Although the subject is never mentioned, it lies just beneath the surface of his writing. In Voyage to Desolation Island, Kauffmann follows in the footsteps of the eighteenth-century sailor Yves-Joseph Kerguelen, who gave his name to the archipelago he discovered in the Indian Ocean. When he made his discovery, Kerguelen was convinced he had found Hell. He did not go ashore and it was left to Captain Cook two years later to name its grey beach and to describe the towering black arch that astounded sailors for hundreds of years. With beaufitul prose Kauffmann describes his quest to uncover the mysteries of Kerguelen - the man and the island - as he explores one of the loneliest points on the globe.
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VOYAGE TO DESOLATION ISLAND
[edit] Author
Kauffmann, Jean-Paul
[edit] ISBN
1860469264
[edit] Published
18/10/2001
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Harvill Press, The
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hardback
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14.99 (GBP)
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