A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis

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Here, like a treasure chest, are the polished gems of a whole life of writing on the road, reflecting a world now totally lost to us. From Yemen of the Imams to bandit chieftains, Neapolitan men of honour and tribal chieftains in Central America, as well as darker scenes: the doomed cultures of French rule in Indo-China, Cossacks being sent home to their death and the quiet holocaust of the indigenous peoples in the jungles of South America. This is a book of immense range and power, informed by an extraordinary lightness of touch: humour, humanity and the telling detail.

He really goes in deep like a sharp polished knife. I have never travelled in my armchair so fast, variously and well. V.S.Pritchett, New Statesman

Lewis is such a fine and amusing writer and also such an intensely moral and humane one that he can make even the most horrible situations both bearable and instructive. William Dalrymple, Sunday Times

A truly remarkable and admirable author. The man is simply amazing. Harry Ritchie, Mail on Sunday

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Lewis is such a fine and amusing writer and also such an intensely moral and humane one that he can make even the most horrible situations both bearable and instructive. - William Dalrymple,

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Norman Lewis, legendary journalist and travel writer.