Book description
Collected between these covers are twenty of Norman Lewis's finest
pieces of travel writing, spanning a period of 30 years. He brings us
face to face with Castro's executioner, with a tragic Ernest Hemingway
and with the unchanged lifestyle of fishermen in an unspoilt Ibiza. He
describes the gentle pleasures of Belize, the ferocious blood feuds of
Sardinian bandits and the unpleasant duty of repatriating Cossacks to
the Soviet Union in 1944.
At the heart of the collection is Lewis's famous report on the
genocide of the Brazilians Indians, which led to the creation of
Survival International - which campaigns for the rights of tribal
peoples. This, Lewis felt, was the most important achievement of his
professional life.
