The Main Cages

The Main Cages

by PhilipMarsden (Author)

Synopsis

A colony of artists, summer tourists and pleasure steamers all help change the face of life in the small Cornish fishing village of Polmayne. Yet the old ways and the old hazards endure. Offshore lie the Main Cages, a treacherous outcrop of rock where many ships and many lives have been lost.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Flamingo
Published: 01 Jul 2002

ISBN 10: 0007136390
ISBN 13: 9780007136391

Media Reviews
The Bronski House: 'The book I've most savoured this year. Marsden has a dazzling gift for poetic evocation' John Fowles, Spectator 'Marsden's intelligence and tact and the vividness of his imagination put him in a very high class of European writers' Peter Levi, Good Book Guide 'Magnificent. A Polish Wild Swans meets Dr Zhivago' William Dalrymple, Sunday Times The Spirit Wrestlers: 'He has painted a picture which can only leave us aghast with wonder' Teresa Waugh, Literary Review 'A fascinating, horrifying and inspiring journey - praise seems scant reward for his efforts. The man deserves a medal' Harry Ritchie, Mail on Sunday
Author Bio
Philip Marsden is the author of A Far Country: Travels in Ethiopia, The Crossing Place: Among the Armenians (which won the Somerset Maugham Award) , The Bronski House: A Return to the Borderlands and The Spirit Wrestlers: A Russian Journey. He is the editor of The Spectator Book of Travel Writing.