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A collection of Nicolas Bouvier’s best travel stories, covering the Aran Isles, lowland Scotland, Xian in China, Korea and Bouvier’s childhood home, Switzerland.
Whether he’s delirious in the wintery Aran Isles, where the air ‘unites the virtues of champagne, cocaine, caffeine, and the ecstasy of love’, or singing the praises of his Chinese tour guide, this collection of his shorter travel pieces brims with his particular joie de vivre.
Ad Hoc through Afghanistan
Which century are we in? Which country? Nicolas Bouvier’s vignette in The Way of the World won’t puzzle those of us (a rapidly dwindling cohort) who can remember Afghanistan during the reign of...
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The beauty of short books is that you can afford to read them more than once. In the case of Nicolas Bouvier’s The Scorpion-Fish I read it through and then double-read it. In other words, on the...
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