- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (28 April 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140131906
- ISBN-13: 978-0140131901
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,224,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Quite the most extraordinary story I have ever read.', Evening Standard .'A brilliant tale of mystery.', Paul Theroux, Sunday Times .'With a fine display of deductive logic, Treherne runs through all the possible permutations of conspiracy and betrayal.", Times Literary Supplement
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'Quite the most extraordinary story I have ever read.' Evening Standard
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The author, John Treherene, is a Zoologist and a Fellow of Downing College Cambridge. While on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1980's he heard about an extraordinary series of events, culminating in two disappearances and three deaths in suspiscious circumstances, which had taken place on the island fifty years previously. These events had created a furore in the international press at the time, but been forgotten by the world during the second world war, and were now remembered only by a few elderly islanders.
Out of interest Dr Treherne put together as best he could the story of these extraordinary events and published them in this book, together with his own analysis concerning which of the deaths were accidental and which were murder.
If it had been published as a novel, everyone would have dismissed this story as too strange to be credible.
Out of interest Dr Treherne put together as best he could the story of these extraordinary events and published them in this book, together with his own analysis concerning which of the deaths were accidental and which were murder.
If it had been published as a novel, everyone would have dismissed this story as too strange to be credible.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Astonishing from page 1 - why has no one made a movie (maybe they have, but I haven't uncovered it)? An extraordinary cast of characters, and a strange, mysterious plot that you couldn't make up if you tried. The surprise is how the author manages such a measured delivery, but then the plot is so gripping, it needs no sensationalisation. Thoroughly enjoying this read!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had to buy this book when I recently returned from the Galapagos and heard the tales of the Germans who lived on one of the islands in the 1930's. This book manages to capture the interwoven lives of the 3 groups of people who were all trying to escape from society - and what a cast of characters they were! The baroness and her 3 lovers, the dentist and his mistress and the Wittmer family. The story ends with several mysterious deaths.
The facts have been recounted by a biologist who was just as intrigued as I was and obtained the information for the book through diaries and accounts of visitors to the island. The photos make this unbelievable tale more believable.
This book is a must for anyone who thrives on non-fiction stories that are so bizare that they sound like fiction!
The facts have been recounted by a biologist who was just as intrigued as I was and obtained the information for the book through diaries and accounts of visitors to the island. The photos make this unbelievable tale more believable.
This book is a must for anyone who thrives on non-fiction stories that are so bizare that they sound like fiction!
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Best read in ages
If you like a true mystery then here is one that is still not resolved. Many characters many possible interpretations. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Bonny
Intriguing story of odd people.
It's hard to decide what category to put this book into. By rights it should go onto the "Impossibly unlikely fiction" section of the library but apparently it's all true. Read more
Published on 25 July 2008 by Adam Graham Malster
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