Description
Sent to map and measure a remote corner of Guyana, government surveyor Russell Fenwick arrives with reluctance, only to find that the landscape—and the people who live within it—resist being reduced to lines on a page. As his journey takes him into the upper reaches of the Canje River, Fenwick’s practical mission becomes entangled with mystery, memory, and the unsettling sense that there are “hidden” ways of knowing the world. Blending realistic travel with symbolic depth, the novel explores themes of colonial authority, perception, and the fragile boundary between documentation and discovery. In the culminating work of the Guyana Quartet, Wilson Harris’s distinctive, lyrical style turns a surveyor’s route into a profound meditation on language, identity, and the secrets that geography can keep.
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paperback
Faber & Faber
Published Jan 1, 1963
260 pages
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First Published
1963
Language
eng
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