Hy Brasil

by Margaret Elphinstone

After fraudulently winning a writing competition, Sidony Redruth is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near-mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic, whose very existence has been a matter of debate as late as the nineteenth century. Elphinstone's plot takes the island location as its starting point, throws in some old-fashioned piracy - a lost treasure, modern-day drug smuggling - political intrigue, an active volcano and a tragic love affair. Told through Sidony's notes for her book, Hy Brasil has all the elements of an adult adventure story, but it is also a contemporary thriller with literary influences ranging from The Tempest and Treasure Island to Moby Dick.

• ISBN10: 1841952478
• ISBN13: 9781841952475
• Publish Date: 6 June 2002
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 22 June 2010
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Canongate Books
• Edition: Main
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 230
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

Not really my kind of book, it's a strange mix of fantasy and slice-of-life novel and it's about somewhere I often describe my accent as coming from but it didn't excite me, I was happy to leave it in work and read it in snippets.