Pleasures and Landscapes
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- Titel: Pleasures and Landscapes / Sybille Bedford
- Person(en): Bedford, Sybille
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: 2014
- ISBN/Preis: 9781907970412 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Nonfiction ; Biography & Autobiography ; Literary Criticism ; Travel ; Electronic books
- Link(s): http://elibraryhh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=8DEB6473-807F-483D-9DBA-891B6ACBA010 Excerpt
Inhalt: In these eight evocative and unpredictable essays, Sybille Bedford chronicles her adventures through Europe over a thirty-year period. With her elegant prose and razor-sharp insight, Bedford takes us on a propulsive journey – dropping us into the passenger seat as she drives to meet Martha Gellhorn in Capri, taking us across the wind-swept piazzas of Venice in winter, and tantalising our taste buds with a tour of the vineyards of Bordeaux. Bedford shows us the world through her eyes – the eyes of a seasoned traveller – in all its beauty and wonder. Pleasures and Landscapes is a satisfyingly sensuous literary expedition told by one of the greatest travel writers of the twentieth century. 'Bedford's ability to recreate landscape is matched only by her appetite for mouth-watering descriptions of exotic food . . . She cannot write a dull page.' – Financial Times 'Bedford writes of the lure of the sensual life, the...
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