The Weather in Africa/Three Novellas

Literature & Fiction

Gellhorn, Martha

United States

Eland & Sickle Moo

This 1967 title is a portrait of the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq. Maxwell presents his impressions of these secluded people, along with numerous photos. Although intended as a travel book, this make more of a historical or sociological study now, given the...turmoil in Iraq.--Library Journal.

A Reed Shaken by the Wind

Travel

Maxwell/Gavin

Asia

<p>Here are the vanished days of the unfettered Sultanate in all their dark, melodramatic splendor-a mingling of magnificence with squalor, culture with barbarism, refined cruelty with naive humor. Until 1912 Morocco never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. WALTER HARRIS (1866-1933), though, was the exception. He first visited in 1887 and lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as the Times correspondent had observed every aspect of its life. He was an intimate of at least three of the ruling Sultans (as well as King Edward VII) and a man capable even of befriending his kidnapper. It was said that only three Christians had ever visited the walled city of Chechaouen: one was poisoned, one came for an hour disguised as a rabbi, and the other was Harris. Originally published in 1921, Morocco That Was is alternately sharp, melodramatic, and extremely funny. The combination of perceptive and reliable observer, and romantic eccentric, makes this book a classic of its genre.""- Times Literary Supplement.</p>

Morocco That Was

Harris, Walter

Includes the piece of journalism Norman was most proud of, an article on the devastation of Amerindian populations in Brazil, which resulted in the establishment of Survival International, which campaigns to protect tribal people and their environments. Travel writing that makes you laugh, but also brings home the world's hurt in glorious understatement.

A View of the World: Selected Journalism (Eland Classics)

LEWIS, NORMAN

For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in  Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. "I used  to hope," he writes, "that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write  about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and  gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives." Here Kidd himself  brings that wonder to life.

Peking Story

Kidd, David

Biographies & Memoirs

<p>Some marking to page edges. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.</p>

Travels into the Interior of Africa

Park, Mungo

Africa

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