The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader

A group of journey essays from the bestselling writer whose writing sparkles with “prose as luminous because the Mediterranean air he loves” (Time). Few males have traveled as correctly as Lawrence Durrell. Born in India, he lived in Corfu as a younger man, having fun with salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian life-style. Over the next a long time, he rambled across the Mediterranean, making properties in Egypt, Cyprus, and Greece. Every time he moved, he requested himself why he felt compelled to journey. On this e-book, he offers his reply. Durrell knew that the sensible traveler appears to be like not for pleasure, training, or landmarks, however is hungry for a way of place—the component of a panorama, metropolis, or nation that makes its individuals who they’re. On this anthology, passages from Durrell’s basic Mediterranean writings are paired with observations on different lands. His writing is poetic, lush, and achingly clear, for this was a person who actually noticed the world.

From the Writer

Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence Durrell aboard his Boat

This {photograph} of Lawrence Durrell aboard his boat, the Van Norden, is taken from a damaging found amongst his papers. The vessel is known as after a personality in Henry Miller’s Tropic of Most cancers. ({Photograph} held within the British Library’s trendy manuscripts assortment.)

Nancy and Lawrence Durrell

This {photograph} of Nancy and Lawrence Durrell was seemingly taken in Delphi, Greece, in late 1939. (Photograph courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin and the Gerald Durrell Property.)

A web page from Durrell’s Pocket book

A web page from Durrell’s notebooks, or, as he referred to as them, the ‘quarry.’ This web page launched his notes on the ‘color and narrative’ of scenes in Justine. (Photograph courtesy of the Lawrence Durrell Papers, Particular Collections Analysis Middle, Southern Illinois College Carbondale.)

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0085IN2UO
Writer ‏ : ‎ Open Street Media (June 12, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 12, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File measurement ‏ : ‎ 5815 KB
Textual content-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Display Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Phrase Sensible ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print size ‏ : ‎ 420 pages