Author: Norman LewisPublisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Jackdaw Cake
Author: Norman LewisPublisher: Eland Publishing
ISBN: 9781906011826
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 'Jackday Cake' Norman Lewis recounts the first half of his adventurous life with dry, infectious, laconic wit, observing the transformation of a stammering schoolboy into a worldly wise multilingual intelligence agent on the point of becoming a formidable travel writer.
Jackdaw Cake
Author: Norman LewisPublisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN: 9780140087277
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The author recounts his childhood in Wales, his parents' seances, his marriage to the daughter of a Sicilian Mafia leader, and his experiences in the Intelligence Corps in Algeria
I Came, I Saw
Author: Norman LewisPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480433322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
DIVDIVPoignant tales from the renowned travel writer’s formative years In over six decades as a travel writer, Norman Lewis earned acclaim for his vivid chronicles of life around the globe. In I Came, I Saw,Lewis turns his pen on his own life in an affecting, comical, and always-thoughtful autobiography. He starts with his youth, when, at nine years old, he moved in with his eccentric aunts and his grandfather—a widower whose ambition was to turn him into a proper Welshman. Lewis recounts his grammar-school adventures, explores his relationship with his father, and recalls his introduction to his first wife, Ernestina, with whom he traveled extensively through Europe, Cuba, and America. He describes his time in the British Intelligence Corps during wartime—which allowed him further travels and honed his world perspective—as well as his experiences of fatherhood and life in Italy, which honed it further. I Came, I Saw is a masterwork of self-reflection by one of the most insightful writers of the twentieth century./div/div
Author: William Henry SpeerTwenty-one
Author: Ian JackPublisher: Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Granta has established itself as the unchallenged venue for the best in contemporary fiction, memoir, reportage, and travel. This special anniversary issue presents 21 landmark works, one from each of the magazine’s 21 years. Included are pieces from such distinguished writers as Leonard Michaels, Raymond Carver, Tim Lott, Seamus Deane, Harold Pinter, Linda Grant, and Joy Williams. A selection from “The State of Europe: Christmas Eve, 1989” includes powerful individual writings by George Steiner, Stephen Spender, Isaiah Berlin, Noel Annan, Abraham Brumberg, and Gunter Kunert. Other contributors include Primo Levi, Salman Rushdie, Nadine Gordimer, Lorrie Moore, and Richard Ford.
In Sicily
Author: Norman LewisPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429976985
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis, but always, in the course of his long career, he has come back to Sicily. From his first, wartime visit - to a land untouched since the Middle Ages - through his frequent returns, he has watched the island and its people as they have changed over the years. In 1998 he returned yet again to write this book, the result of a sixty-year-long fascination with all things Sicilian. In Sicily reveals this fascination on every page. Throughout there is the Mafia, and Lewis's friendships with policemen, journalists and men of respect. But more, he writes of landscape and language, of his memories of his first father-in-law (professional gambler, descendant of princes and member of the Unione Siciliana), of Sicily's changing sexual mores, of the effects of African immigration, of Palermo and its ruined palaces - and of strange superstitions, of witches and bandits and murder.
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Author: John Douglas PorteousThe Missionaries
Author: Norman LewisPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480433330
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The renowned travel writer delivers “a scathing account of how some missionary sects deal with indigenous peoples in their bid for the conquest of souls” (Library Journal). Acclaimed travel essayist Norman Lewis spent his life traversing the globe and offering thoughtful commentary on the cultures he visited. In The Missionaries, he turns his critical lens on those missionaries who embed themselves in indigenous cultures to convert the locals to Christianity. What begins with the well-meaning goal of improving the lives of native people, though, often has the opposite effect. Focusing mainly on tribes in South America, but also in Indochina and the Pacific Islands, Lewis demonstrates how various missionary organizations betray their originating principals and—whether knowingly or not—contribute to the destruction of entire cultures on a scale equivalent to that of genocide.
