The Great Flood: Travels Through a Sodden Landscape - Paperback

by Edward Platt (Author)

A journey that explores floods and flooding in all its forms: Platt investigates the ways in which water has shaped our landscape, our literature and our sense of ourselves.

Author Biography

Edward Platt was born in 1968 and lives in London. His first book, Leadville, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. He is also the author of The Great Flood and The City of Abraham, a journey through Hebron, the only place in the West Bank where Palestinians and Israelis lived side by side.