Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018.
Adam Weymouth's work has been published by a wide variety of outlets including the Guardian, the Atlantic and the New Internationalist. His interest in the relationship between humans and the world around them has led him to write on issues of climate change and environmentalism, and most recently, to the Yukon river and the stories of the communities living on its banks. He lives on a 100-year-old Dutch barge on the River Lea in London. This is his first book.
Weymouth combines acute political, personal and ecological
understanding, with the most beautiful writing reminiscent of a
young Robert Macfarlane . . . He is, I have no doubt, a
significant voice for the future . . . a really outstanding new
contemporary British voice . . . I've never seen such a strong
and excited consensus among the judges for a winner. -- Andrew
Holgate, Sunday Times literary editor and judge of the Sunday Times
Young Writer of the Year Award 2018
Lyrical ... The elegiac tone that fills Kings of the
Yukon, the sorrow at the loss of culture and nature in the
wilderness, is an unavoidable reflection of life in the 21st
century -- Richard Lea * Guardian *
A rich and fascinating book ... So vivid it reads like a
thriller ... I was hooked -- Elisa Segrave * Spectator *
[Weymouth's] account ... is so assured, so accomplished, that I
found it hard to believe it was his first book ... rich in
characters, and beautifully written. -- Michael Kerr, 'The best
Christmas books for travellers' * The Telegraph *
An epic ... Eloquent and tautly written -- Tom Fort *
Literary Review *
I was knocked sideways by this book and quite unexpectedly. Adam
Weymouth takes his place beside the great travel writers like
Chatwin, Thubron, Leigh Fermor, in one bound. But like their
books this is about so much more than just travel. -- Susan
Hill
[A] brilliant account of a summer spent paddling the
2,000-mile length of the Yukon River... Kings of the Yukon
succeeds as an adventure tale, a natural history and a
work of art. Its various threads of context and back story are
woven seamlessly into the daily panorama of the river journey --
Richard Adams Carey * Wall Street Journal *
Dazzling, often in unexpected ways, Adam Weymouth is a
wonderful travel writer, nature writer, adventure writer - along
the way, he is also a nuanced examiner of some of the world's
most fraught and urgent questions about the interconnectedness
of people and the natural world. -- Kamila Shamsie, author of 'Home
Fire'
This is the best kind of travel writing. Weymouth embarks on
an ambitious journey - 2,000 miles down the Yukon in a canoe -
voyaging, listening and learning. An outstanding book -- Rob
Penn * author of The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees *
An enthralling account of a literary and scientific quest.
Adam Weymouth vividly conveys the raw grandeur and deep
silences of the Yukon landscape, and endows his subject, the
river's King Salmon, with a melancholy nobility -- Luke Jennings *
author of Blood Knots and Atlantic *
Adam Weymouth's account of his canoe trip down the Yukon River is
both stirring and heartbreaking. He ably describes a world
that seems alternately untouched by human beings and teetering at
the brink of ruin -- David Owen * author of Where the Water Goes
*
A moving, masterful portrait of a river, the people who live
on its banks, and the salmon that connect their lives to the land.
It is at once travelogue, natural history, and a meditation on the
sort of wildness of which we are intrinsically a part. Adam
Weymouth deftly illuminates the symbiosis between humans and the
natural world - a relationship so ancient, complex, and
mysterious that it just might save us -- Kate Harris * author of
Lands of Lost Borders *
Shift over Pierre Berton and Farley Mowat. You, too, Robert
Service. Set another place at the table for Adam Weymouth, who
writes as powerfully and poetically about the Far North as any
of the greats who went before him -- Roy MacGregor * author of
Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada *
Adam Weymouth writes of the Yukon River, the salmon and the
people, with language that flows and ripples like the
water he describes. There may be a smoothness to the words, but
pay attention, there are deep undercurrents here. You can hear
the water dripping from his paddle between each stroke as he
travels that river. It mingles with the voices of the many people
he visits along its shores -- Harold Johnson * author of Firewater:
How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours) *
Beautiful, restrained, uncompromising. The narrative pulls
you eagerly downstream roaring, chuckling and shimmering just like
the mighty Yukon itself -- Ben Rawlence * author of City of Thorns
and Radio Congo *
An infatuated love letter to the river -- Chris Fitch *
Geographical *
I thoroughly enjoyed traveling the length of the Yukon River with
Adam Weymouth, discovering the essential connection between the
salmon and the people who rely upon them. What a joy it is to be
immersed in such a remote and wondrous landscape, and what a
pleasure to be in the hands of such a gifted narrator -- Nate
Blakeslee * author of The Wolf: A True Story of Survival and
Obsession in the West *
This book is an important contribution to our understanding of
threatened ecosystems and what it means to be human on the edge of
ecological catastrophe. I loved the sensitive but deeply
powerful weave of pesca-poetry, knowledge and encounter that
immersed me in the midst of the Yukon's forces and left me subtly
transformed -- Miriam Darlington * author of Owl Sense *
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