The Hesperides Tree - Nicholas Mosley

Title: The Hesperides Tree

Author: Nicholas Mosley

Publisher: Vintage

Year: 2002

Number of pages: 311

ISBN: 9780099285878

Synopsis: An eighteen-year-old boy goes with his parents to the west coast of Ireland where, by chance, he witnesses terrorist gun-running activity. His father is involved with a local wildlife station where biologists are studying the causes of variations among birds. On the off-shore island where this research has centred, there are ruins of the cells in which hermits in the Dark Ages had come to live and survive. He returns to an English university where he has intended to study biology or literature but finds neither of these disciplines is much concerned with wider experience and returns to Ireland to try to discover - what those old hermits were looking for? On his first visit to Ireland he had fallen in love with the glimpse of a young girl who, it had seemed, might be involved with the gun-runners. When together they go to stay on the deserted island it becomes possible to imagine it as the mythical Garden of the Hesperides with its Tree of Life hung with golden apples.

Condition: Used

Books are all in a used condition unless otherwise stated and may contain signs of wear and handling. Items are inspected before listing to ensure they are in an acceptable condition. Please ask questions if you need more details on an item's condition.
Books are shipped within one business day of checkout. If you select EFT as payment method, it may take somewhat longer for payment to reflect on our side before we are able to dispatch.
We offer Pargo Pickup (3-5 business days), local collection in Somerset West or Aramex door-to-door courier (1-2 business days). Shipping options can be selected at checkout.
Tracking number will be supplied once your shipment has been been processed.

See more of our books at

https://www.bidorbuy.co.za/seller/1245451/T_Wever