So It Goes

Travels in the Aran Isles, Xian and places in between

Nicholas Bouvier, Robyn Marsack (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2019
Eland Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78060-114-4 (ISBN)

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A collection of Bouvier s best travel stories, covering: the Aran Isles, lowland Scotland, Islay, Xian inChina, Korea and Bouvier s childhood home, Switzerland.

What makes Nicolas Bouvier such a well?loved travel writer is his exquisite sensitivity to the beauties of life, and his ability to capture those elusive moments in a style that is light, yet pregnant with wonder. Whether he s delirious in the wintery Aran Isles, where the air `unites the virtues of champagne, cocaine, caffeine, and the ecstasy of love or singing the praises of his Chinese tour guide, this collection of his shorter travel pieces brims with his particular joie de vivre.

Nicolas Bouvier was born in 1929 near Geneva. Without waiting for the result of his degree, in 1953 he left for Yugoslavia with no intention of returning. The fruits of this journey of a year and a half, were published some eight years later, as The Way of the World. Bouvier continued, through India to Ceylon and thence to Japan. From his experience in Japan, where he was to live for more than a year and to revisit in the 1960s and 1970s, came a distillation of experiences, The Japanese Chronicles, which were published in their final version in 1975. He died in 1998 in Geneva.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Reisen
ISBN-10	1-78060-114-X / 178060114X
ISBN-13	978-1-78060-114-4 / 9781780601144
Zustand	Neuware