A Late Education: Episodes In A Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few war correspondents captured the chaos and humanity of the twentieth century's defining conflicts with the precision and elegance of Alan Moorehead, and A Late Education: Episodes in a Life stands as his most intimate self-portrait. This memoir chronicles a series of vivid personal episodes drawn from Moorehead's remarkable life — from his Australian origins to the battlefields of World War II and the literary circles of Europe — presenting a mosaic of experience rather than a conventional autobiography. Moorehead's prose, celebrated for its clarity and authority across acclaimed works such as Gallipoli and The Blue Nile, here turns inward, uniting sharp journalistic observation with genuine introspective candour. The result is a portrait of a restless, curious mind shaped by war, friendship, and the act of bearing witness — leaving the reader to wonder what else this extraordinary life quietly concealed.
Author: Alan Moorehead
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Hamish Hamilton
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few war correspondents captured the chaos and humanity of the twentieth century's defining conflicts with the precision and elegance of Alan Moorehead, and A Late Education: Episodes in a Life stands as his most intimate self-portrait. This memoir chronicles a series of vivid personal episodes drawn from Moorehead's remarkable life — from his Australian origins to the battlefields of World War II and the literary circles of Europe — presenting a mosaic of experience rather than a conventional autobiography. Moorehead's prose, celebrated for its clarity and authority across acclaimed works such as Gallipoli and The Blue Nile, here turns inward, uniting sharp journalistic observation with genuine introspective candour. The result is a portrait of a restless, curious mind shaped by war, friendship, and the act of bearing witness — leaving the reader to wonder what else this extraordinary life quietly concealed.