Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A His
tory of the World in 10‹¨« Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional
history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks
from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they are revisited in on o
ther centuries and other climes - by a Victorian spinster mourning her father, b
y an American astronaut on an obsessive personal mission. We journey to the Tita
nic, to the Amazon, to the raft of the Medusa, and to an ecclesiastical court in
medieval France where a bizarre case is about to begin...This is no ordinary hi
story, but something stranger, a challenge and a delight for the reader's imagin
ation.
