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Jackdaw Cake: An Autobiography
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Jackdaw Cake: An Autobiography
Contributors:
By (Author) Norman Lewis
Publisher:
Eland Publishing Ltd
Imprint:
Eland Publishing Ltd
Publication Date:
1st May 2013
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Travel writing
Dewey:
910.4092
Physical Properties
Number of Pages:
224
Dimensions:
Width 135mm, Height 215mm
Weight:
310g
Description
Norman Lewis recounts the first half of his adventurous life with his dry, infectious, laconic wit. He takes us on a journey that transforms a stammering schoolboy into a worldly-wise multilingual sergeant in the Intelligence Corps on the point of becoming (in Auberon Waugh's words) 'the greatest travel writer alive, if not the greatest since Marco Polo'. We leave him in 1950, just before he started creating that series of superbly crafted, wry but deeply humane travel books: Dragon Apparent, Golden Earth, The Honoured Society and Naples '44.
