I Can't Stay Long (Penguin Modern Classics)
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- Synopsis
- 'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.'In this much-loved volume, a mature Laurie Lee returns to the Gloucestershire childhood familiar to readers of Cider with Rosie, a world lost even at the time of writing to the march of twentieth-century technology. Lee also explores the post-war travels that took him to, amongst others, the Netherlands, Tuscany, Mexico and the West Indies. With pieces dating from the 1940s and 50s, Lee captures a world now for ever changed by war and mass tourism, 'when to be a traveller was not yet to be just a labelled unit'.
- Copyright:
- 1975
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780241237182
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780241237175
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Date of Addition:
- 03/14/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Laurie Lee
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Travel, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.