Pierre Loti: Travels With the Legendary Romantic: Travels with the Legendary Traveller - Brossura

Blanch, Lesley

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ISBN 10: 1850434298 ISBN 13: 9781850434290

Casa editrice: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2004

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When Pierre Loti--traveler, acrobat, naval officer, celebrated writer--died in 1923, he was given a state funeral, the only French writer to have received such an honor besides Victor Hugo. This spellbinding storyteller--bohemian, exotic and fiercely romantic--spent his life escaping the constraints of bourgeois France, and in so doing redefined his age. He traveled the South Seas, Asia and the Middle East (his great obsession), he loved with intense passion and freedom, and he wrote some of the most exquisite novels and travel books of his time. As adored as he was scorned by French society, Loti led the life that most romantics only dared write about.

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Lesley Blanch, 1904-2007, was at heart a nomad. She travelled extensively and adventurously throughout her extraordinary life although her great passion was always for the Middle East and Russia. Married to the French diplomat and writer, Romain Gary, for 18 years, Blanch became arts features editor of Vogue in the thirties and turned to writing and journalism soon after. She was Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of The Sabres of Paradise, Pierre Loti (both Tauris Parke Paperbacks) and the bestselling The Wilder Shores of Love among many others. At the time of her death she was writing her autobiography, the sequel to her acclaimed Journey Into the Mind's Eye. An inspiration to generations of writers, readers and travellers, Lesley Blanch was, in the words of Philip Mansel, ""not a school, a trend, or a fashion, but a true original.""

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• Editore: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1850434298
• ISBN 13: 9781850434290
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336