On the Wilder Shores of Love
A Bohemian Life
$31.33
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2017
Summary
Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer. Her lifelong passion was for Russia, the Balkans and the Middle East. At heart a nomad, she spent the greater part of her life travelling the remote areas her books record so vividly.
Edited by her goddaughter Georgia de Chamberet, who was working with her in her centenary year, this book collects together the story of Blanch’s marriage, p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349005461 |
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| ISBN-10: | 034900546X |
| Author: | Lesley Blanch, Georgia de Chamberet |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 350g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 29mm |
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Sumptuous and captivating - Independent
On the Wilder Shores of Love brings [Lesley Blanch’s] personality vividly to life - SpectatorReaders can enjoy Blanch’s precise use of words, astonishing range of reference, and ability to get under the skin … Blanch’s account of her marriage is a politely lethal masterpiece - Times Literary SupplementThis volume, edited with affection and grace by de Chamberet, is a deliciously readable monument to a writer who combined a steely resilience and capacity for hard work with an elegant frivolity and a voracious appetite for love, beauty and adventure - Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
Lesley Blanch
Lesley Blanch was appointed MBE in 2001 and awarded the medal of Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. She wrote twelve books of biography, memoir and cookery. She was ahead of her time and prescient in the way she attempted to bridge West and East. Her most famous book, The Wilder Shores of Love has never been out of print since first published in 1954.
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