The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew''s dreamlike jungle voyage ...
''My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.'' Tsitsi Dangarembga
''An exhilarating experience ... Makes visions real and reality visions ... Genius.'' Jamaica Kincaid
''A masterpiece: I love this book for its language, adventure and wisdoms.- Monique Roffey
''Revel in the inviolate, ever-deepening mystery of Wilson Harris-s work.'' Jeet Thayil
''The Guyanese William Blake - Such poetic intensity.'' Angela Carter
I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ...
A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Their domineering leader, Donne, is the spirit of a conquistador, obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition is plagu
