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Rex
Bartlett and Cynthia Barefoot
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the author:
Rex Bartlett was born
and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He travelled widely
during the turbulent '60s, in the capacity of Drifter. In the
past, Rex has written post-cards and shopping lists. Curious
Little World is his first book. |
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Neil
Young's ex-paperboy confronts Napoleon's ghost
on remote tropical island |
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As
a kid delivering newspapers in Winnipeg, Rex Bartlett had the
honour of handing The Star Weekly to Neil Young. But at
the time, neither Neil nor Rex had any inkling that their ho-hum
encounter would become a hilarious chapter in a book about the
remote tropical island where the Emperor Napoleon died.
Curious Little World
- A Self-Imposed Exile on St. Helena Island is Rex's
twistedly funny account of his move from Winnipeg to the tiny
island in the South Atlantic Ocean.
With his partner, Cynthia Barefoot, Rex
exchanges the long cold winters of Winnipeg for the tropical sun -
in a most unusual place.
St. Helena appears on the globe as a mere
fly-speck about halfway between Africa and South America. No
airplane has ever landed there. And only one ship makes regular
voyages to the sunny little island from the distant outside world.
It was the island's amazing isolation
that prompted the British to jail Napoleon Bonaparte on St. Helena
until his death there in 1821. And the islanders, or
"Saints" as they're called, claim that Napoleon put a
curse on the island "for all time." Bravely taking on
the job of "curse buster," Rex does battle with the
Emperor's ghost and ends up revealing what Napoleon was REALLY
doing with his hand inside his shirt all the time.
A very off-beat book about a very
off-the-beaten-track place, Curious Little World is
full of surprises. But perhaps the biggest surprise is that, in
spite of laughing so hard, we actually learn so much about this
unknown paradise - St. Helena, the Jewel Of The South Atlantic. |
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What people have said about Curious Little World:
“I loved the book.... so will all other islanders everywhere. Rex made me laugh out loud many times...”
Aurora Bramble
Freelance writer
Vancouver Island, BC
“I thought the book was very worthwhile, and I particularly enjoyed the style with which it was written.”
Alan Twigg
Publisher
BC Bookworld
“...fun fun fun book... I had great fun reading it....”
Christa Grace-Warrick
Publisher / Editor
Island Tides Newspaper
“What a ride! Gonzo-hippie-Dickens! Great book. Even the digressions were funny.”
Cathleen Hjalmarson
Poet / freelance journalist
Winnipeg, Canada
“I had a difficult time putting it down. A wonderful peek into another
world... Rex is hilarious...”
Allan Nichols
The Canadian Expat Magazine
“Immediately I was sucked in by Rex Bartlett’s easy story-telling style... Reading the book was like having a friend tell tales of their great adventure...”
Melissa Fryer
Arts Editor
Nanaimo News Bulletin
“...great
book...”
Desert Island Picks
Toronto Reads
University of Toronto Bookstore
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| Publishing
Information
Publishing Date: November, 2007
ISBN 978-0-9783927-0-3
Travel / humour / memoir
Soft Cover (5.5" x 8")
264 pages / 9 illustrations
Price: $21.95 Cdn. Includes shipping within Canada.
Outside Canada: USA add $5.00 per copy.
other countries add $10.00 per copy |
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