A Snow Goose
Publisher: Cinnamon Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781909077331; 9781907090929
Description: This is the first full-length collection of short stories by travel writer and master of mountain literature Jim Perrin. Mystery, romanticism and tragedy abound in these four fictional tales, beginning with the title story, which reimagines the fated Franklin expedition to the Arctic in 1845 as an eco-fable of our times.
Table of contents: title: Intro; Preface; A Snow Goose; title: an historical eco-fable; After the Fall; title: a utopian fantasy; Incident at Mew Stone Point; title: a rock-climbing romance; The Burning; title: a Jungian comedy of myth-taken identities; The Eyas; title: a captive parable; Notes on the stories.