Eland, 2003. — 334 p. A Dragon Apparent, describes Norman Lewis's journeys in the Far East at a time when the countries he visited were passing out of the reach of the ordinary traveler, never again be seen as they were then. "Henry Kissinger said that the dominoes were falling, so now it was the turn of Cambodia and Laos. The holocaust visited on them consumed not the present,...
Eland, 2003. — 334 p. A Dragon Apparent, describes Norman Lewis's journeys in the Far East at a time when the countries he visited were passing out of the reach of the ordinary traveler, never again be seen as they were then. "Henry Kissinger said that the dominoes were falling, so now it was the turn of Cambodia and Laos. The holocaust visited on them consumed not the present,...
Eland, 2013. — 290 p. Despite communist incursions and tribal insurrection, Norman Lewis describes a land of breath-taking natural beauty peopled by the gentle Burmese. This is a country where Buddhist beliefs spare even the rats, where the Director of Prisons quotes Chaucer and where three-day theatrical shows are staged to celebrate a monk taking orders. Hitching lifts with...
Eland, 2013. — 290 p. Despite communist incursions and tribal insurrection, Norman Lewis describes a land of breath-taking natural beauty peopled by the gentle Burmese. This is a country where Buddhist beliefs spare even the rats, where the Director of Prisons quotes Chaucer and where three-day theatrical shows are staged to celebrate a monk taking orders. Hitching lifts with...
St. Martin's Press, 2000. — 192 p. 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...
Eland, 2013. — 219 p. After WW II Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. VOICES OF THE OLD SEA describes his three successive summers in that almost medieval community where life revolves around the seasonal sardine catches, Alcade's bar and satisfying feuds with neighboring villages. It's lucky Lewis was...
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