Liber Amoris Melissa Meade and others with an interest

and others with an interest in maritime history and strategic issues an absorbing long view of the role of the sea in creating the world we know

Without the painstaking and dedicated work of professionals who reinvestigate and revive cases that others once abandoned

a young woman and a young man meet and begin the romance that will define their lives throughout the decades

It moves from memories of childhood in Guyana

Liber Amoris Melissa Meade and others with an interestIn 1822 William Hazlitt, forty four years old and married, was both tormented and enchanted by Sarah Walker, his landlady's nineteen year old daughter. "Liber Amoris" is the chronicle of that obsession, an extraordinary fragment of Romantic autobiography that explores the unstable nature of what individuals perceive as 'truth', the unknowability of others, and leaves the reader unsure of who is victim, who seducer in this haunting relationship.