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
*Guardian*
A rich and fascinating book ... So vivid it reads like a thriller
... I was hooked
*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.
*The Telegraph*
An epic ... Eloquent and tautly written
*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
*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
*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
*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
*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
*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
*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
*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
*author of City of Thorns and Radio Congo*
An infatuated love letter to the river
*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
*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
*author of Owl Sense*
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