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*
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