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27%OFFMartha Gellhorn - Travels With Myself & Another - 9780907871774 - V9780907871774
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Travels With Myself & Another

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Description for Travels With Myself & Another Paperback. A witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues and narrow escapes of Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. Num Pages: 296 pages, port. BIC Classification: WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374. 296 pages, port. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WTL. Dimension: 220 x 152 x 20. Weight: 370.

Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her "best horror journeys". She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean and visits a dissident writer in the Soviet Union against her better judgement. Written with the eye of a novelist and an ironic black humour, what makes these tales irresistible are Gellhorn's explosive and often surprising reactions. Indignant, but never righteous and not always right, through the crucible of hell on earth emerges a woman who makes you laugh with her at life, while thanking God ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Eland
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780907871774
SKU
V9780907871774
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About Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn was born in 1908 in St Louis Missouri, the perfect place for a travel writer she felt, because people were always trying to get away from it. She died at the age of 89 in London having reported on almost every conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the disintegration of Yugoslavia. In her late 80s she researched ... Read more

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"one of the funniest travel books of our time" Dervla Murphy

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