The Ginger Tree

Literature & Fiction

Wynd, Oswald

Contemporary

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Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of the horrors of travel - through bug-infested jungle, trapped in a broiling stationary train, or in a bus with a dead fish slapping against her face - she gains our trust.  But it is the charmed world of Don Otavio which steals our imagination. He is, she says, "one of the kindest men I ever met". She stays in his crumbling ancestral mansion, living a life of provincial ease and observing with glee the intense life of a Mexican neighbourhood.

Visit to Don Otavio

Bedford, Sybille

Travel

The changing sky: Travels of a novelist

Norman, Lewis

The devil drives: a life of Sir Richard Burton

Fawn M. Brodie

Biographies & Memoirs

Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education

Queen of Roumania: The Life of Princess Marie, Grand-Daughter of Queen Victoria (Photography)

HANNAH PAKULA

Among the Faithful

Martin, Dahris

The View from the Ground: Peacetime Dispatches,1936-87

Gellhorn, Martha

Travel Writing

Face Of War

Reference

MARTHA GELLHORN

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

<p>Navigating the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans, Raban opens himself to experience the river in all her turbulent and unpredictable old glory. Going wherever the current takes him, he joins a coon-hunt in Savana, falls for a girl in St Louis, worships with black Baptists in Memphis, hangs out with the housewives of Pemiscot and the hog-king of Dubuque. Through tears of laughter, we are led into the heartland of America with its hunger and hospitality, its inventive energy and its charming lethargy and come to know something of its soul. The journey is as much the story of Raban as it is of the Mississippi. Navigating the dangerous, ever-changing waters in an unsuitably fragile aluminium skiff, he immerses himself with an irresistible emotional intensity as he tries to give shape to the river and the story finding himself by turns vulnerable, curious, angry and, like all of us, sometimes foolishly in love.</p>

Jonathan Raban, Old Glory: An American Voyage

RABAN, Jonathan

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