 Journey into the Mind’s Eye
Lesley Blanch
Fragments of an Autobiography Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1 900209 12 8
Area of interest: Russia Date of first publication: 1968
Eland publication date: June 1, 2001
Price: £12.99
Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorn and in the grips of a passionate obsession. The search to recapture the love of her life, and the Russia he had planted within her, takes her to Siberia and beyond, journeying deep into the romantic terrain of the mind’s eye.
Part travel book, part love story, Lesley Blanch’s Journey into the Mind’s Eye is pure intoxication.
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"One of the finest books about Russia…one of the best travel books of its generation."
Philip Mansel, Spectator
"If you are interested in Russia – if you are interested in love – this haunting book is one to read and re-read."
Philip Ziegler
"Blanch’s prose is excellent and her depiction of the comedy of life, as well as the poignancy of human suffering, is always perfectly accomplished. The reader is left with the perceptions of a fine writer, not only of the mind’s eye but of the dark and luminous complexities of the human heart- all cast upon a gorgeous Russian canvas."
Kevin McGrath, Harvard Review
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