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Big Snake: Big Snake
Robert Twigger
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Description for Big Snake: Big Snake
Paperback. Robert Twigger goes to the Far East in search of the world's longest snake - 'echoes of Gerald Durrell's trips crossed with Redmond O'Hanlon's foray into the heart of Borneo .. a fantastic book' DAILY MAIL Num Pages: 320 pages, 19. BIC Classification: 1FM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
Robert Twigger goes to the Far East in search of the world's longest snake - 'echoes of Gerald Durrell's trips crossed with Redmond O'Hanlon's foray into the heart of Borneo . . . a fantastic book' DAILY MAIL
About to be married, Robert Twigger decides on his last great adventure as a bachelor. Surfing the net, he discovers the Roosevelt Prize - worth $50,000 - for the capture of a live 30 foot python. Armed only with a tin of High Toast Snuff (deadly if sniffed by a snake), Twigger sets off into the remote jungles of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753808573
SKU
V9780753808573
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Robert Twigger
ROBERT TWIGGER has won the Newdigate Prize for poetry, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and the Somerset Maugham Award. His twelve books have been translated into over twenty languages and cover both fiction and non-fiction, memoir and travel. He spent a year training with the Tokyo riot police, crossed Canada in a homemade birchbark canoe and ... Read more
Reviews for Big Snake: Big Snake
Twigger's adventures are vastly entertaining and he relates them as well as he seeks his zoological goal
Publishing News
There are travelogue, natural history and mythology here, and the hunt is always entertaining and often hilarious. Twigger is a generous and easygoing observer and participant, even when the going gets rough.
Sunday Times
Funny, immensely readable ... Read more
Publishing News
There are travelogue, natural history and mythology here, and the hunt is always entertaining and often hilarious. Twigger is a generous and easygoing observer and participant, even when the going gets rough.
Sunday Times
Funny, immensely readable ... Read more