Chasing Churchill The Travels of Winston Churchill

by Sandys, Celia

• ISBN13: 9780786713929
• ISBN10: 0786713925
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-07
• Publisher: Basic Books

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.

Author Biography

Celia Sandys is a granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill She lectures widely in the U.S. and Britain. Sands lives in Wiltshire, England

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
A Chronology of Milestones and Travels	xiii
Winston Churchill
Foreword	xix
Mary Soames
Prologue: The Gifts of Travel	xxi
The Christina	1	(15)
A New World	16	(24)
Warrior and Writer	40	(25)
Jungle, Bush and Thankless Deserts	65	(17)
Coast to Coast	82	(22)
The Paris of the Sahara	104	(26)
Wartime Journeys 1914--18 and 1939--43	130	(31)
Wartime Journeys 1943--45	161	(25)
Fulton and Beyond	186	(26)
Madeira: Warm, Paintable, Bathable	212	(6)
The Old World	218	(26)
Epilogue: Last Journeys	244	(13)
Acknowledgements	257	(4)
Source Notes	261	(8)
Bibliography	269	(4)
Index	273