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Lukas Hartmann | Bis ans Ende der Meere | English Title: To the End of the Sea<br>Novel, 496 Pages

Novel, Hardcover
496 Pages
Published in March 2009

ISBN 978-3-257-06686-9
€ (D) 21.90 / (A) 22.60
sFr 38.90*
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Lukas Hartmann
Bis ans Ende der Meere

English Title: To the End of the Sea

London 1781. By order of the admiralty, John Webber delivers a portrait of her husband to the widow of James Cook. Outraged, the widow refuses to accept the present, claiming that she does not recognise her husband in it. Although shocked, Webber can sympathise with the woman. Upon the return of Captain Cook’s ship »Resolution«, the admiralty issued a complete ban on mentioning the details of the circumstances of Cook’s tragic death. And the portrait too only serves one purpose: to perpetuate the heroic memory of the great captain and to make sure that he will go down in history as one of England’s noble explorers. But Webber knows the truth about Cook’s four-year long journey, his third and last voyage around the world, and all the tormenting images, which he has been prohibited from drawing, will haunt him for the rest of his life.

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»Lukas Hartmann uses historical facts like an old, blemished mirror, in which we see not scenes from the past, but just ourselves looking in. Trying to find out how we became what we are today.«NDR Kultur

»If one shifts the historic backdrops, perennial human emotions arise: human beings as the prisoners of their own desires.«Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»Hartmann presents the uncanny inevitability that seems to lie in the destiny of his figures with the unspectacular virtuosity of a true master of narrative.«Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»Lukas Hartmann develops great poetic power, full of sensibility and eloquent silence.«Neue Zürcher Zeitung

»Gripping like an adventure-novel including a virtuosic combination of changing perspectives, time levels and flashbacks.«Die Weltwoche

»Lukas Hartmann – who got well-known as a journalist and children’s book author – develops his topic into a gripping and thoughtful novel in which the process of exploring the world is whether good or bad but a way to confront with foreign, sometimes incomprehensible cultures.« Wiener Zeitung

»›To the End of the Sea‹ is a historical novel that leads its reader into a long-ago past but still finds a connection to where and how we live today.«Tages-Anzeiger

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