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Perseus in the Wind
- A Life of Travel
Engelsk Paperback
Perseus in the Wind
- A Life of Travel
Engelsk Paperback

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''She has written the best travel books of her generation and her name will survive as an artist in prose.'' - The Observer

Written just after the Second World War, Perseus in the Wind (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark''s writings. She muses on the seasons, the effect light has on a landscape at a particular time of day, the smell of the earth after rain, Muslim saints, Indian temples, war and old age.

Each chapter is devoted to a particular theme: happiness (simple pleasures, like her father''s passion for the view from his cabin in Canada); education (to be able to command happiness, recognise beauty, value death, increase enjoyment); beauty (incongruous, flighty and elusive - a description of the stars, the burst of flowers in a park); death (a childhood awareness of the finality of time, the meaningfulness of the end); memory (the jewelled quality of literature, pleasure, love, an echo or a scent when aged by the passage of time).

For those who have loved her travel writing, Perseus in the Wind illuminates the motivations behind Freya Stark''s journeys and the woman behind the traveller.







Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
192
ISBN-13:
9781838601812
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1838601813
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Udg. Dato:
16 maj 2019
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
196mm
Højde:
130mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
16 maj 2019
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