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Title: Quiet Evening, A: The Travels of Norman Lewis
Author: LEWIS NORMAN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/07/2022
Imprint: ELAND
Price: $34.99
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
Here, like a treasure chest, are the polished gems of a whole life of writing on the road, reflecting a world now totally lost to us. From Yemen of the Imams to bandit chieftains, Neapolitan men of honour and tribal chieftains in Central America, as well as darker scenes: the doomed cultures of French rule in Indo-China, Cossacks being sent home to their death and the quiet holocaust of the indigenous peoples in the jungles of South America. This is a book of immense range and power, informed by an extraordinary lightness of touch: humour, humanity and the telling detail.
‘He really goes in deep like a sharp polished knife. I have never travelled in my armchair so fast, variously and well.’ – V.S.Pritchett, New Statesman
‘Lewis is such a fine and amusing writer – and also such an intensely moral and humane one – that he can make even the most horrible situations both bearable and instructive.’ William Dalrymple, Sunday Times
‘A truly remarkable and admirable author. The man is simply amazing.’ – Harry Ritchie, Mail on Sunday
Review: Lewis is such a fine and amusing writer and also such an intensely moral and humane one that he can make even the most horrible situations both bearable and instructive. – William Dalrymple,
Author Biography: Norman Lewis, legendary journalist and travel writer.
Series: Eland Classics
ISBN: 9781780601557
Dimension: 216mm X 140mm