Selected travel writing from Norman Lewis, which makes you laugh, but also brings home the world's hurt in glorious understatement.
Selected travel writing from Norman Lewis, which makes you laugh, but also brings home the world's hurt in glorious understatement.
These twenty articles, written during a period of thirty years, include an interview with Castro's executioner; a meeting with a tragic Ernest Hemingway; a farcical trip to the Chocos of Panama; a description of a fishing community in an unspoilt Ibiza; an extraordinary story of bandits in the highlands of Sardinia, and Lewis's famous report on the genocide of South America's Indians.
Norman Lewis, who died last year, was England's greatest travel writer of the last century. He wrote a dozen travel books, including such masterpieces as Naples 44, The Honoured Society and A Dragon Apparent, and thirteen novels.
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