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The books inThe Sensual World
series are a beautiful record of their time. England of the twenties,
thirties, and forties is brilliantly evoked, and the descriptions of his
travels in Europe and Argentina capture the wonder of youth and
discovery. He met many famous writers of the time, and the descriptions
of his meetings with Kipling, Masefield, Chesterton, and Compton
Mackenzie, among others, are full of insight and also the freshness and
enthusiasm of a novice writer at the feet of his heroes. He writes with
skill, lightness of touch, and humour. I>The Author says, I have
given this book its title because the words seem to fit each of the two
journeys it records, journeys which, in the cant phrase of the
courtroom, ran concurrently. The first was through the Mediterranean on
a Yugoslav cargo boat during the coldest month of one of Europe s most
icy winters for a century. The second was along the coastlines of some
recent fiction, my choice being made for me by the booksellers in
various ports on whose stocks of Penguins I relied. The Sensual
World.< >
The books inThe Sensual World
series are a beautiful record of their time. England of the twenties,
thirties, and forties is brilliantly evoked, and the descriptions of his
travels in Europe and Argentina capture the wonder of youth and
discovery. He met many famous writers of the time, and the descriptions
of his meetings with Kipling, Masefield, Chesterton, and Compton
Mackenzie, among others, are full of insight and also the freshness and
enthusiasm of a novice writer at the feet of his heroes. He writes with
skill, lightness of touch, and humour. I>The Author says, I have
given this book its title because the words seem to fit each of the two
journeys it records, journeys which, in the cant phrase of the
courtroom, ran concurrently. The first was through the Mediterranean on
a Yugoslav cargo boat during the coldest month of one of Europe s most
icy winters for a century. The second was along the coastlines of some
recent fiction, my choice being made for me by the booksellers in
various ports on whose stocks of Penguins I relied. The Sensual
World.<
