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.
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."