Dimensions
129 x 198 x 13mm
Introduction by Robert MacFarlane
Through a 'leaking' of time, the west African jungle starts to crystallise. Trees metamorphose into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Most people flee the area in terror, afraid to face what they cannot understand. But some, dazzled and strangely entrance, remain toe drift through this dreamworld forest: a doctor in pursuit of his ex-mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wielding a crystal cross and a tribe of lepers, searching for Paradise.
In this tour de force of the imagination, the acclaimed author of Crash Empire of the Sun and Cocaine Nights transports the reader into one of his most unforgettable landscapes.
