Nick Hunt je autor, ktorý prešiel a napísal o veľkej časti Európy. Jeho debutová kniha sa stala finalistkou prestížneho ocenenia pre cestovateľskú literatúru. Hunt tiež prispieva a edituje pre projekt Dark Mountain, čo naznačuje jeho záujem o hlbšie témy presahujúce bežné cestopisy. Jeho písanie skúma spojenie medzi človekom a krajinou, často s poetickým a introspektívnym nádychom.
'With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' - Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb. For two decades the Jewis[Bokinfo].
Exploring themes of loss and memory, the narrative intertwines the lives of a journalist at a surreal Dinner of Loss and various eccentric characters across time and space. A nihilistic sea captain drifts on a plastic sea, while a senile Blackbeard reflects on his past. The failed conquistador Cabeza de Vaca navigates the New World, and a couple in a cabin confront the ghosts of ancient hominids. The story also features the emergence of a legendary beast from a Welsh lake, creating a tapestry of extinction and haunting memories.
A dazzling plunge into the four strangest landscapes scattered across Europe.
Where the Wild Winds Are is full to the brim with learning, entertainment, description, scientific fact and conjectural fiction. It is travel writing in excelsis . Jan Morris Literary Review
Nick Hunt pays homage to Patrick Leigh Fermor by walking the same challenging route across Europe in this "glorious book."