{"product_id":"playing-with-water-9780571313990","title":"Playing With Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e''One June day in 1953 aged twelve I sat in a classroom and drew a map.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The map that the young Hamilton-Paterson drew was of a tropical  island, and it prefigured with uncanny accuracy the Philippine island on  which, thirty years later, he would spend a full third of each year,  entirely alone. It had a coral strand, a field of grass, vertical  volcanic cliffs and no water. He survived by fishing and by drinking  rainwater.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is a book about a remarkable and  self-sufficient writer''s ''desire to be lost'', and the journey of a  conventionally educated Englishman to an island on the far side of the  world that aroused in him a feeling of discovering a place he always  knew.  Hamilton-Paterson writes with incomparable skill about the hard  beauty of the sea, of coral reefs and the animals that live in them, and  about the fishermen who eke a living among the labyrinth of islands  that make up the Philippines.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403104559447,"sku":"9780571313990","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/playing-with-water-9780571313990","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}