Wilson Harris: PALACE OF THE PEACOCK W3 [2010] paperback Condition:New descended from the original Spanish

descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey

Almost a decade later

cut off from everyone and everything he loved

For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach

Ada does everything in her power to prove she is one of them

Wilson Harris: PALACE OF THE PEACOCK W3 [2010] paperback Condition:New descended from the original SpanishPalace of the Peacock, the first of Wilson Harris's many novels, was published in 1960, just one year after his arrival in Britain from Guyana. In a richly metaphorical style, the book sets out the themes Wilson continues to develop in his writing to this day: the ability of the imaginative consciousness to create worlds where disparate cultures and traditions are fused. Donne, an ambitious skipper, leads a multiracial crew up an unnamed river in the