AT A TIME WHEN STATUES are being pulled down to cleanse public places of shadowy figures from colonial days, many might prefer to bury any such family connections. Iain Sinclair, the veteran novelist, travel writer and scribbler of off-beat books about London (aged 78), bravely and determinedly takes the opposite approach.
Long fascinated by grainy family pictures of his great-grandfather Arthur Sinclair — many of which hang on the wall of the downstairs loo of his Hackney is the curious result in which the writer travels to the Upper Amazon in 2019 in the company of his daughter, Farne, to follow in the footsteps of Arthur as far as a remote tributary of the Amazon, the River Perené.
