Far to Go and Many to Love: People and Places - Hardcover

Far to Go and Many to Love : People and Places is a selection of Lesley Blanch's early journalism, essays and traveller's tales and forms an irresistible sequel to her posthumous memoirs, On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life. God-daughter Georgia de Chamberet is sharing with us today an evocative article "The Romantic Retreat Created by Lesley Blanch with Treasures from a Lifetime of Travel" which I know you will enjoy as much as I have. First, here's more about Far to Go and Many to Love. Savvy, self-possessed, talented and successful, Lesley Blanch was a bold and daring writer; travelling at a time when women were expected to be subservient to the needs of husbands and children. Illustrated with photos and a selection of Blanch's line drawings and with an insightful introduction by Blanch's god-daughter, Far to Go and Many to Love: People and Places brings together writings on subjects as various as Vivien Leigh, polygamy and the Orient Express. She remembers life in post-war Bulgaria with her husband, the diplomat-novelist Romain Gary, and Christmas in Mexico with him. Specific places were of particular significance to her: the Sahara, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Central Asia. Her descriptions make for disturbing reading given the cumulative impact of a century of war on the Middle East. The Romantic Retreat Created by Lesley Blanch with Treasures from a Lifetime of Travel