Pleasures and Landscapes

by Bedford, Sybille

• ISBN13: 9781582431703
• ISBN10: 1582431701
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-26
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

Sybille Bedford once wrote that travel writing is inseparable from the writer's tastes, idiosyncrasies, and general temperament--it is what happens to him when he is confronted with a column, a bird, a sage, a cheat, a riot; wine, fruit, dirt; the delay in the dirt, the failing airplane. Pleasures and Landscapes is what happened to Mrs. Bedford when, at the peak of her literary powers, she traveled through France, Italy, and the rest of Europe for Vogue, Esquire, and other magazines --eight classic essays that secure her a place at the table with A. J. Liebling and M. F. K. Fisher.

Author Biography

Sybille Bedford was born in 1911, in Charlottenburg, Germany, and was brought up in Italy, England, and France. in 1953, she made her literary debut with A Visit to Don Otavio, and has since published eight other books - including Jigsaw, A Legacy, A Favourite of the Gods, and A Compass Error, as well as classic accounts of criminal trials and other courtroom cases, and an acclaimed biography of her mentor Aldous Huxley. She was vice president of English PEN and one of Britain's nine Companions of Literature. Ms. Bedford lived in London where she passed away in February 2006.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. XIII
A Homecoming Capri 1948	p. 1
The Quality of Travel France and Italy 1961	p. 11
The Anchor and the Balloon A Diary in Switzerland 1953	p. 57
Portrait Sketch of a Country Denmark 1962	p. 85
Notes on a Journey in Portugal 1958	p. 101
A Journey in Yugoslavia 1965	p. 113
La Vie de Chateau A Diary in Bordeaux 1978	p. 147
Venice in Winter 1967	p. 165
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