Nick Hunt is an author who has walked and written across much of Europe. His debut work was a finalist for a prestigious travel book award, signaling the depth and resonance of his narrative explorations. Beyond his personal journeys, Hunt contributes to and edits for the Dark Mountain Project, indicating a commitment to exploring profound themes. His writing often delves into the intricate relationship between humanity and the landscape, rendered with a distinctive lyrical and introspective style.
'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.
The skies of London have been taken over by bright green parakeets. Where did they come from? Why are they here?In The Parakeeting of London, writer Nick Hunt and photographer Tim Mitchell – self-declared gonzo ornithologists – track the progress of the parakeets from park to cemetery to riverbank, meeting Londoners from all walks of life who share their thoughts, opinions and theories on these incongruous avian invaders. Did Jimi Hendrix release them in 1968? Did they escape from a set during the filming of The African Queen? Are they anything to do with climate change? And, most importantly, are they here to stay?
Wanderungen vom Atlantik bis zum Mittelmeer
Den Wind sehen wir nicht, aber wir spüren ihn. Der britische Journalist und Reiseschriftsteller Nick Hunt macht sich auf den Weg, den Wind zu erwandern. Von den Höhenzügen im Nordwesten Englands bis zu den Alpen, von den Ufern der Rhone bis zur Adriaküste führen ihn seine Wanderungen. Es sind Reisen zu wilden Winden und wilden Landschaften - und zu den Menschen, die sie bewohnen: Meteorologen und Sturmjäger, Schäfer und Segler, Exzentriker und Enthusiasten. Dabei erlebt er nicht nur hautnah jene Kräfte, denen er auf der Spur ist, er taucht auch ein in Mythen und Legenden, Geschichte und Geschichten, Wissenschaft und Aberglauben. Ein faszinierender und unkonventioneller Reisebericht.
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."