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A delightful tale of an elephant handler written by Patrick O'Brian when a very young man. HUSSEIN tells the story of a young mahout - or elephant handler - his childhood and life in India and his relationship and adventures with elephants. Patrick was in his early twenties when he wrote it. Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda Leopard, his first book, was written when he was 14, but the dry wit and unsentimental precision O'Brian's readers savour is already in evidence. The book was feted on publication and O'Brian described as the 'boy-Thoreau'. The book was published in England and the United States, and translations appeared in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Japan. In 1938 O'Brian published his next novel, called Hussein: An Entertainment, a marvellously readable adventure story set in India. Reviewers in the United States were particularly enthusiastic: the New York Times compared Hussein favourably to Kipling's Kim, calling it 'a gorgeous enterntainment'. Thomas Sugrue wrote in the New York Herald Tribune: 'The story of Hussein is a swift-moving, well-written account of events so fantastic that moonshine was certainly their mother...Hussein, in quest after his Sashiya, is a hero

About the Author :
Patrick O'Brian is the author of the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of historical novels. He is also the biographer of Picasso and Joseph Banks. He lives in SW France.

Review :
'Both books are full of the fantasy that has made O'Brian's seafaring yarns such a success. Like them, they are full of engaging adventures, curious lore, fond descriptions of food and scenes of battle... Caesar makes delightful, often hilarious reading... Hussein is more sophisticated. Here fully thirty years before Master and Commander was published is the unmistakable texture of O'Brian's historical fiction. Hussein has it all: the immersion in another world, full of local colour, the delight in a specialised vocabulary, the relish of male camaraderie, travel, treasure and fighting.' David Sexton, Evening Standard



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780002259538
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
  • Height: 222 mm
  • Width: 141 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0002259532
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jun 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Weight: 506 gr


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