3/8/2023 0 Comments Amazon long forgotten fieldsThe injured whale soon dies, and when the professor’s crew brings its corpse on board to perform an autopsy, they discover in its belly the black box of Flight PS570, lost on its way from Jakarta to London 30 years ago and dubbed “The Long Forgotten.” He’s running out of oxygen down there when he collides with a goose-beaked whale that pulls his craft to the surface. David Whitehouse’s third novel features plant hunting everywhere from Chile to Namibia, but it opens underwater: Professor Jeremiah Cole is in a submersible 200 miles west of Perth, Australia. He’s running out of oxygen down there when he collides with a goo Have you noticed how many botanical titles and covers are out there this year? If you appreciate this publishing trend as much as I do, and especially if you enjoyed Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, I can highly recommend The Long Forgotten. Have you noticed how many botanical titles and covers are out there this year? If you appreciate this publishing trend as much as I do, and especially if you enjoyed Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, I can highly recommend The Long Forgotten. This is not only original it is utterly charming, sometimes very dark, always completely riveting and it has put David Whitehouse firmly on my list of must read authors. In the background the discovery of a black box recorder sends yet another character on a journey of sorts…and in the end it all comes together in a highly memorable, hauntingly beautiful and melancholy finale. The relationships play out against a vivid and ever changing set of scenery, the people you meet are all fascinatingly intriguing. The journeys encompassed within “The Long Forgotten” are made up of more than just miles. I loved Dove, his random strange memories that make him wonder if he is going mad and the flashbacks we see to Peter, a cleaner of more than just dirt and his passion for rare flowers that starts with a love story… This is a real book journey with some very life affirming and emotional themes within the pages. It was also one of those that leaves you vaguely bereft when you have to leave it behind. It was one of those that immediately absorbed me and was so beautifully written and so hauntingly evocative of so many things that you just sink into it. I loved Dove, his random strange memories that make him wonder if he is going mad and the flashbacks we see to Peter, a cleaner of mo I loved this book so much. The Long Forgotten is a thrilling mystery about memory and identity from David Whitehouse, the award-winning author of Bed and Mobile Library.more Restless and lonely in present-day London, Dove is quickly consumed by the memories, which might just hold the key to the mystery of his own identity and what happened to the passengers on that doomed flight, The Long Forgotten. The memories belong to a rare flower hunter in 1980s New York, whose search led him around the world and ended in tragedy. Restless and lonely in present-day London, Dove is quickly consumed by the m When the black box flight recorder of a plane that went missing 30 years ago is found at the bottom of the sea, a young man named Dove begins to remember a past that isn't his. When the black box flight recorder of a plane that went missing 30 years ago is found at the bottom of the sea, a young man named Dove begins to remember a past that isn't his.
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