'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'
When Laurie Lee first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in the outside world that remained undiminished throughout his writing life. This enchanting collection of his 'first loves and obsessions' brings together pieces including recollections of his Gloucestershire childhood celebrated in Cider With Rosie; reflections on life, love and death, such as a moving report from the tragic Welsh village of Aberfan; and evocative travel writings on Tuscany, Mexico and the West Indies, amongst others, before they were transformed by mass tourism. Together they capture a world that is lost forever.
'One of Britain's finest writers' Daily Mail
'There's a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down' New Statesman
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the author of Cider with Rosie, a look at a lost age of travel and the English countryside'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'In this much-loved volume, a mature Laurie Lee returns to the Gloucestershire childhood familiar to readers of Cider with Rosie, a world lost even at the time of writing to the march of twentieth-century technology. Lee also explores the post-war travels that took him to, amongst others, the Netherlands, Tuscany, Mexico and the West Indies. With pieces dating from the 1940s and 50s, Lee captures a world now for ever changed by war and mass tourism, 'when to be a traveller was not yet to be just a labelled unit'. When author first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in the outside world that remained undiminished throughout his writing life. In this book, he brings together pieces including recollections of his Gloucestershire childhood celebrated in Cider With Rosie. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780241237175
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Book Description Condition: New. When author first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in the outside world that remained undiminished throughout his writing life. In this book, he brings together pieces including recollections of his Gloucestershire childhood celebrated in Cider With Rosie. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780241237175