Wayne McLennan tells the story of his extraordinary life through a series of adventures after he leaves his home town in Australia, desperate to avoid following his father and his grandfather into the mines.
Wayne McLennan was born in New South Wales, Australia in 1954. He now lives with his wife in Amsterdam and runs a business in Estonia.
These wild, adventurous, personal, often edgy stories are the fruit
of half a lifetime. McLennan describes how he found his way from
Australia to Alaska (yes, he really does row there), while
revealing himself to be a writer of rare force and scope
*Sunday Times*
A fascinating book ... McLennan gets caught up in Basque separatist
riots in Pamplona; becomes a deck-hand on a fishing boat in Alaska;
trades gold illegally in Costa Rica, twice; becomes the master of a
lobster vessel off the Mosquito Coast ... [He] excels in describing
the quiet moments of traveling ... and his good nature informs the
character of his writing, which is balanced and considered
throughout
*Literary Review*
Like all chancers he tells a mean tale ... his is bolshie bar-room
prose, but each episode is constructed with the care and style of a
short story, lingering in the mind long after you've closed the
book
*Daily Mail*
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