 Travels with Myself and Another
Martha Gellhorn
Five Journeys from Hell Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0 907871 77 1
Genre: Americans Abroad, WWII Date of first publication: 1978
Eland publication date: January 1, 2002
Price: £12.99
Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her "best horror journeys". She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean and visits a dissident writer in the Soviet Union against her better judgement. Written with the eye of a novelist and an ironic black humour, what makes these tales irresistible are Gellhorn's explosive and often surprising reactions. Indignant, but never righteous and not always right, through the crucible of hell on earth emerges a woman who makes you laugh with her at life, while thanking God that you are not with her.
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"Travels with Myself and Another is Martha Gellhorn at her witty, acidulous, sympathetic and wholly delightful best: fine observation of landscape and incident, and even finer observation of character."
John Simpson
"Spun with a fine blend of irony and epigram. She is incapable of writing a dull sentence."
The Times
"Miss Gellhorn has a novelist's eye, a flair for black comedy and a short fuse…There is not a boring word in her humane and often funny book."
New York Times
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