Heaven has Claws
1952
First Published
3.90
Average Rating
23
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East African adventure and big-game fishing with Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle and his wife begin the book with a disastrous year in Tangiers, before moving briefly to the New Forest where they found themselves neighbours of F.A. Mitchell-Hedges. Conan Doyle and his new neighbour got together a joint expedition to the eastern Indian Ocean. However, the shipping company refused to carry Conan Doyle's pet dog any further than Mombasa, and so Mitchell-Hedges continued the journey alone. The Conan Doyles stayed behind with their "10 tons of shark hooks, tinned food, ropes, wire traces, rods, reels, rifles, tools, cameras, ammunition and medicines heaped on the wharfside".
Avg Rating
3.90
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Author
Adrian Conan Doyle
Author · 4 books
Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle was the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his second wife Jean, Lady Doyle or Lady Conan Doyle. He had two siblings, sister Jean and brother Denis, as well as two half-siblings, sister Mary and brother Kingsley. Adrian Conan Doyle has been depicted as a race-car driver, big-game hunter, explorer, and writer. He married Danish-born Anna Andersen, and was his father's literary executor after his mother died in 1940. He founded the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Foundation in Switzerland in 1965. On his death, his sister Jean Conan Doyle took over as their father's literary executor. (source: Wikipedia)
