This was the first book that Arthur Koestler wrote in English. It starts at the beginning of World War II when he was living in the South of France, working on "Darkness at Noon". After retreating to Paris, he was imprisoned as an undesirable alien. Even though he had been a crusader against fascism, he and many other anti-Nazis, were treated as enemies and their internment was brutal. The worst of his imprisonment was at Vernet, where prisoners had to sleep without blankets in 20 degrees of frost, and where he finally collapsed during a session of forced labour. Some of his fellow internees were eventually handed over to Nazi executioners. Koestler ponders on the collapse of pride and honour in France and he asks "Was the tragedy of France merely accidental, due to an unfortunate constellation? Or was it due to the still undiscovered, secret laws of the rise and decline of races and nations?"

Scum of the Earth

Arthur Koestler

Literature & Fiction

Eland Books

Because of Sarah Lloyd's relationship with a placid, beautiful, opium-addicted Sikh, she spent two years in rural India, first in a remote mud-built Punjabi village, and then in the impoverished community of a dubious holy-man. Here she lived in a minute brick hut with living expenses of only 50 pence a day. This book is part travel book, part love story.

An Indian Attachment

Travel

Lloyd, Sarah

Asia

The autobiography of William Hudson who spent the first eighteen years of his life on the Argentinean pampas.

Far Away and Long Ago: A Childhood in Argentina

W.H.Hudson

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Ask Sir James: The Life of Sir James Reid, Personal Physician to

History

REID, Michaela

Europe

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Ginger Tree (Fiction - Crime and)

Oswald Wynd

Contemporary

Journey Into The Mind's Eye

Blanch, Lesley

Marrakech is one of the great citadels of the Muslim world. It is a drum that beats an African identity into the complex soul of Morocco. This collection of 38 writings highlights the exotic allure, romanticism, spirit, and history of the fabulous Red City. This book includes excerpts from celebrated contemporary writers like Elias Canetti, Juan Goytisolo, and Peter Mayne, from nineteenth-century scholar-explorers Walter Harris and Budgett Meakin, and from such primary sources as Leo Africanus and Ibn Buttuta. Also included are pieces by such outstanding writers as Edith Wharton, George Orwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, and Esther Freud.

Marrakech, The Red City: The City through Writers' Eyes

Barnaby Rogerson

Short Stories & Anthologies

A pocket-sized collection of all the favorite verses that have inspired desert travelers. From Coleridge's Kubla Khan to Shelley's Ozymandias, through James Elroy Flecker, Byron, Longfellow and Heine. Also includes the great originals such as the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and the Seven Golden Odes of Pagan Arabia.

Desert Air: A Collection of the Poetry of Place: Of Arabia, De

Rogerson, Barnaby

Poetry

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