Entries (RSS) A View of the World: Selected Journalism
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A View of the World 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 I944. At the heart of the collection is Lewis’s famous report on the genocide of the Brazilian Indians, which led to the creation of Survival International to campaign for the rights of tribal peoples. This, Lewis felt, was the most important achievement of his professional life. ‘Norman Lewis is one of the greatest of twentieth-century British writers’ WILL SELF `A View of the World will cavwy Norman Lewis’s reputation even higher than it already is. It is a triumph.’ PATRICK MARNHAM LITERARY REVIEW `Everything is portrayed with a brilliance which makes all other travel-writing read like the blurb on a brochure.’ TIME OUT Price (ZA) R |
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At the moment of truth his body would pivot like a discus-thrower’s, the net launched on the air spreading in a perfect circle, then falling in a ring of small silver explosions, Jaume’s arm still raised in an almost declamatory gesture in the second before he sprang forward to secure his catch.’ NORMAN LEWIS
