Redmond O’Hanlon

The Fetish Room (Redmond O’Hanlon and Rudi Rotthier)

Redmond O’Hanlon is known as an amiable anti-hero – the debunker of classical exploration literature – and here on this joint road trip with journalist Rudi Rotthier, O’Hanlon visits places from his dark childhood. With a fine sense of the comic and beautifully rendered observations of the people they encounter, Rotthier excels in painting a portrait of this English author as he details the escapades of their journey. O’Hanlon provides a stream of jokey anecdotes which offset the bleakness of almost all his memories as do their conversations on God, Darwin and nature.