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Lesley Blanch

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Description for Lesley Blanch Paperback. A biography full of romanticism, exoticism, glamour and fantasy Num Pages: 384 pages, 2 x 8pp bw. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.

Lesley Blanch, writer, artist and adventuress, 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.

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, Franco-Slav diplomat and writer, and with him embarked on a series of postings from Bulgaria to Los Angeles. After their divorce she transferred her obsession to Turkey, Persia and the Islamic ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
John Murray General Publishing Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
263g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719565472
SKU
V9780719565472
Shipping Time
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About Anne Boston
Anne Boston has writted and edited for various publications includeing Nova, Cosmopolitan, Sunday Times, New Society and Country Living. Her anthology Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War was published in 1988.

Reviews for Lesley Blanch
'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 ... Read more

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