Chasing Churchill: The Travels of Winston Churchill

by Sandys, Celia

• ISBN13: 9780786712144
• ISBN10: 0786712147
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-09
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Sir Winston Churchill was a well-traveled man. By the time he was twenty-five, his thirst for adventure had taken him to Cuba, India's North-West frontier, the Sudan, and South Africa, as well as to battle, prison, and worldwide fame. During World War II, when as prime minister he held Britain's destiny in his hands, he hazarded arduous journeys not only to confer face-to-face with his allies Roosevelt and Stalin, but also to witness firsthand the action at the front. In later years, his enduring passion for painting prompted travels to locales like Marrakech. (He took President Roosevelt there in 1943, simply to view a splendid sunset.) Celia Sandys actually accompanied her famous grandfather on some of his later travels, most memorably on a cruise aboard Aristotle Onassis's yacht Christina, but for this always-engaging book she herself has retraced his many journeys over seventy years on four continents, and sought the people who knew, entertained, consulted, or simply crossed paths with him. In their long-untold stories she finds her grandfather's character illuminated in new, revealing, and often surprising ways.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Winston Churchill: A Chronology of Milestones and Travels
Foreword
Prologue: The Gifts of Travel
The Christina	p. 1
A New World	p. 16
Warrior and Writer	p. 40
Jungle, Bush and Thankless Deserts	p. 65
Coast to Coast	p. 82
The Paris of the Sahara	p. 104
Wartime Journeys 1914-18 and 1939-43	p. 130
Wartime Journeys 1943-45	p. 161
Fulton and Beyond	p. 186
Madeira: Warm, Paintable, Bathable	p. 212
The Old World	p. 218
Epilogue: Last Journeys	p. 244
Acknowledgements	p. 257
Source Notes	p. 261
Bibliography	p. 269
Index	p. 273
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