Pleasures & Landscapes

Sybille Bedford

£9.99

Paperback

Daunt Books Publishing > Non-Fiction

ISBN: 9781907970405

Published May 2014 by Daunt Books Publishing

Description

With an introduction by Jan Morris.

In these eight evocative and unpredictable essays, Sybille Bedford chronicles her adventures through Europe over a thirty-year period. With her elegant prose and razor-sharp insight, Bedford takes us on a propulsive journey – dropping us into the passenger seat as she drives to meet Martha Gellhorn in Capri, taking us across the wind-swept piazzas of Venice in winter, and tantalising our taste buds with a tour of the vineyards of Bordeaux.

Bedford shows us the world through her eyes – the eyes of a seasoned traveller – in all its beauty and wonder. Pleasures & Landscapes is a satisfyingly sensuous literary expedition told by one of the greatest travel writers of the twentieth century.

‘When the history of modern prose in English comes to be written, Sybille Bedford will have to appear in any list of its most dazzling practitioners.’ – Bruce Chatwin

‘Bedford’s ability to recreate landscape is matched only by her appetite for mouth-watering descriptions of exotic food . . . She cannot write a dull page.’ – Financial Times

‘Bedford writes of the lure of the sensual life, the picnics, lobster salad, hock and seltzer and going to the opera, in Italy, in summer . . .’ – The Times

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Weight 0.45 kg
Dimensions 20 × 13 × 5 cm