The Isles Of Unwisdom
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Light chipping around spine - small corner missing. Otherwise fine.
Set against the sweeping drama of a doomed 16th-century Spanish expedition into the South Pacific, The Isles of Unwisdom chronicles the ill-fated voyage of Álvaro de Mendaña and his crew as they sail in search of the legendary Solomon Islands — a paradise of gold that proves to be anything but. Through the eyes of the story's narrator, Robert Graves reconstructs a world of mutiny, superstition, starvation, and colonial hubris, weaving a richly textured narrative that is by turns darkly comic and profoundly tragic. Graves, best known for his towering historical novel I, Claudius, brings the same meticulous scholarship and sardonic wit to this lesser-celebrated gem, illuminating the human capacity for self-deception and the catastrophic consequences of misplaced ambition. His prose is precise yet vivid, grounding grand historical events in the frailties of individual men and women. A masterwork of historical fiction that asks a question as relevant today as it was in the age of conquest: what price is paid when certainty outpaces wisdom?
Author: Robert Graves
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, Cassell and Company Limited
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: First ed
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Light chipping around spine - small corner missing. Otherwise fine.
Set against the sweeping drama of a doomed 16th-century Spanish expedition into the South Pacific, The Isles of Unwisdom chronicles the ill-fated voyage of Álvaro de Mendaña and his crew as they sail in search of the legendary Solomon Islands — a paradise of gold that proves to be anything but. Through the eyes of the story's narrator, Robert Graves reconstructs a world of mutiny, superstition, starvation, and colonial hubris, weaving a richly textured narrative that is by turns darkly comic and profoundly tragic. Graves, best known for his towering historical novel I, Claudius, brings the same meticulous scholarship and sardonic wit to this lesser-celebrated gem, illuminating the human capacity for self-deception and the catastrophic consequences of misplaced ambition. His prose is precise yet vivid, grounding grand historical events in the frailties of individual men and women. A masterwork of historical fiction that asks a question as relevant today as it was in the age of conquest: what price is paid when certainty outpaces wisdom?