Man Belong Mrs Queen: My South Sea Adventures with the Philip Worshippers - Couverture souple

Baylis, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908699647 ISBN 13 : 9781908699640

Editeur : Old Street Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

'A brilliant conceit . . . the truest and most original account of Philipism . . . Hilarious and obsessive, it is sure to gain a cult status all of its own.'
THE SUNDAY TIMES
'Fabulous . . . a great travel tale and an epic culture clash'
Simon Reeve, author and BBC presenter
As a bookish child growing up on Merseyside in the 1980s, Matthew Baylis identified with the much-mocked Prince Philip as a fellow outsider. He even had a poster of him on his bedroom wall.
Years later, his Philip-worship long behind him, Baylis heard about the existence of a Philip cult on the South Sea island of Tanna. Why was it there? Nobody had a convincing answer. Nobody even seemed to want to find one.
His curiosity fatally piqued, the author travelled over 10,000 miles to find a society both remote and slap-bang in the shipping-lanes of history. A place where US airmen, Lithuanian libertarians, Corsican paratroopers and Graeco-Danish Princes have had as much impact as the missionaries and the slave-traders. On the rumbling slopes of this remarkable volcanic island, banjaxed by daily doses of the local narcotic, suffering from a diet of yams and regularly accused of being a divine emissary of the Duke, Baylis uncovered a religion unlike any other on the planet.
Self-deprecating, hilarious and -- almost incredibly -- true, this is travel writing at its horizon-expanding best.

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À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Baylis is a novelist, journalist and scriptwriter. He worked for the BBC as a storyliner on EastEnders (where he helped devise the ratings-grabbing Valentine's Day murder plot and made Dot Cotton consume cannabis), before moving to Kenya and Cambodia, where he trained local scriptwriters and created TV dramas for the United Nations and BBC World Service Trust. After a spell living in a remote mountain village on the Pacific island of Tanna, he returned to Britain to take up his present role as television critic for the Daily Express. He continues to write films and TV dramas for the Far East. Baylis's first crime novel, A Death at the Palace, was published by Old Street in 2013.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Old Street Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908699647
• ISBN 13: 9781908699640
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible