Travels With Myself And Another
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few writers have witnessed the world with as much courage and clarity as Martha Gellhorn, and Travels With Myself and Another stands as her most personal and irreverent testament to a life lived in perpetual motion. The book chronicles five of her most gruelling journeys — through China, Africa, the Caribbean, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East — recounted with sharp wit, unflinching honesty, and a magnificent disdain for discomfort. Gellhorn presents these misadventures not as triumphant travelogues but as dispatches from the edge of endurance, where bureaucratic absurdity, illness, and chaos are standard companions. Written with the precision of a seasoned war correspondent and the dry humour of someone who has long since abandoned patience, this collection stands as a landmark of twentieth-century travel writing. The unnamed another of the title — widely understood to be Ernest Hemingway — haunts the narrative as a reluctant, often insufferable travel partner, adding a layer of biographical intrigue that deepens with every page. For readers who believe that the finest travel writing is ultimately about character rather than destination, this book delivers a portrait of one of the twentieth century's most formidable women at her most candid and captivating.
Author: Martha Gellhorn
Format: Paperback
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few writers have witnessed the world with as much courage and clarity as Martha Gellhorn, and Travels With Myself and Another stands as her most personal and irreverent testament to a life lived in perpetual motion. The book chronicles five of her most gruelling journeys — through China, Africa, the Caribbean, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East — recounted with sharp wit, unflinching honesty, and a magnificent disdain for discomfort. Gellhorn presents these misadventures not as triumphant travelogues but as dispatches from the edge of endurance, where bureaucratic absurdity, illness, and chaos are standard companions. Written with the precision of a seasoned war correspondent and the dry humour of someone who has long since abandoned patience, this collection stands as a landmark of twentieth-century travel writing. The unnamed another of the title — widely understood to be Ernest Hemingway — haunts the narrative as a reluctant, often insufferable travel partner, adding a layer of biographical intrigue that deepens with every page. For readers who believe that the finest travel writing is ultimately about character rather than destination, this book delivers a portrait of one of the twentieth century's most formidable women at her most candid and captivating.