# The Drunken Sailor

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- Book: [The Drunken Sailor](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hayes/the-drunken-sailor) ([The Drunken Sailor.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hayes/the-drunken-sailor.md))
- Authors: [Nick Hayes](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hayes)
- Publisher: jonathan_cape
- ISBN: 978-19-1070-206-2
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2018-05-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

The Drunken Sailor traces the life of Arthur Rimbaud: poet, surrealist, libertine and gun runner. In dazzling artwork, Nick Hayes follows Rimbaud from his youth in Ardennes to the poetry salons of Paris, from the absinthe-glazed passion of his relationship with Verlaine to his flight into the jungles of Indonesia and the deserts of Yemen and Egypt. Told entirely in Rimbaud’s own words, from a new translation of Le bateau ivre , The Drunken Sailor confirms Nick Hayes’ place as one of the most talented graphic novelists at work today.