Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda Hingston Michael
Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda Hingston Michael Shortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book PrizeOn his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of…
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Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda Hingston Michael
Shortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book PrizeOn his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. A few years later, when Shiel set sail for a new life in London, his father gave him some advice: Try not to be strange. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby island of Redonda--where, with pomp and circumstance, he was declared the island's king.
With a cast of characters including forgotten sci-fi novelists, alcoholic poets, It was almost as if the elder Shiel knew what was coming.Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda tells, for the first time, the complete history of Redonda's transformation from an uninhabited, guano-encrusted island into a fantastical and international kingdom of writers.
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