Lesley Blanch
Inner Landscapes, Wilder Shores
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2011
Summary
Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, followed her own compass in everything she did. She called herself a romantic traveller; her appetite for the exotic colours all her books. The first, The Wilder Shores of Love, became a worldwide bestseller and is still in print.
Emotions, she insisted, can be transposed to places or countries and in this she was her own best example. Her guiding passion for Russia began in childhood; later she found the ‘eternal Slav’ in Romain Gary, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719565472 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719565472 |
| Author: | Anne Boston |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
‘A lively, colourful portrait, packed with people and travel’
‘A lively, colourful portrait, packed with people and travel’ - Daily Mail
‘Boston proves a sure-footed and sympathetic guide through the labyrinth of Blanch’s self-invention’ - Sunday Times‘Boston has succeeded … remarkably well, in capturing the spirit and wit of a sexy and scholarly romantic’ - Guardian As exotic and tantalising as a tale from the Arabian Nights. Glamorous and unconventional - Daily Express Boston has … written a scrupulous, sympathetic, occasionally rather flowery book which … comes as close to the truth about any elusive and not altogether likeable subject as any biography could - Spectator Boston s affectionate and admiring biography supplies some of the detail about which her subject was notably vague, but leaves the Blanch legend largely intact - Daily Telegraph‘For sheer fund I recommend Lesley Blanch … which offers a romp through the glittering combination of fantasy and fact under which this entrancing adventuress buried the mundane details … of her early life. Boston’s eye for a comic quote … adds zest to the story of a writer whose favourite motto was: “Get up and get on with it.” ’ - Miranda Seymour, Daily Telegraph Books of the YearAbout The Author
Anne Boston
Anne Boston has written and edited for various publications including Nova, Cosmopolitan, the Sunday Times, New Society and Country Living. Her anthology Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War was published in 1988. She first visited the Near East in her teens and has returned as often as possible since.
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