Traveling on the Edge: Journeys in the Footsteps of Graham Greene
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Fascinated by depravity and unpredictability, horrified by the prospect of family life, Graham Greene's travels took him to some of the most neglected and dangerous parts of the world. Julia Llewellyn Smith catalogs Greene's destinations with political insight as well as humor, and finds herself attracted to the places where Greene had found himself at particularly dark times: Argentina at war, Mexico during religious persecutions, Vietnam on the brink of war, and Cuba just before the revolution. As she travels to these countries herself, Llewellyn Smith comes to understand them through Greene's accounts, and writes about their contemporary color and depth with a discerning perspective all her own. , Hardcover, Ausgabe: 1st, Label: St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2001-12-07, Studio: St. Martin's Press, Verkaufsrang: 4284903.

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20th century,adventure,biographies,education and reference,history,modern (16th-21st centuries),specialty travel,travel,travel writing,writing, Traveling on the Edge: Journeys in the Footsteps of Graham Greene, Graham Greene liked to set his novels in lost and dangerous countries in darker moments in history: Haiti under President-for-Life "Papa Doc" Duvalier; Cuba on the eve of revolution; Mexico during a decade of religious persecution; Vietnam as it careened towards war. For British journalist Julia Llewellyn Smith, the places Greene chose were as irresistible as his writing, so she set out to discover whether "Greeneland" still existed and how greatly it had changed in the intervening years. After a slow beginning in Brighton, England, Llewellyn Smith reveals herself to be as bold a traveler as Greene. She meets clandestinely with a priest in Chiapas, Mexico who tells her the paramilitaries "murder anyone they suspect of being a Zapatista and they rape their wives. They shoot at priests who try to help." In Mexico, and elsewhere, Llewellyn Smith finds that "nothing has changed in Greeneland, yet so much has happened." Vietnam may be communist, but it has "one hundred percent capitalist freedom" and is very much like pre-war Vietnam with its colonial cities, dense jungles, gleaming rice paddies, and the brothels and opium dens Greene enjoyed. Cuba is now almost as fashionable for tourists as it was in 1955, while Haiti is still gripped by fear, frustration, and poverty despite having a democratically elected president. Like Greene, Llewellyn Smith rarely stays in one place very long, which occasionally makes her as reductive as Greene in his worst moments. Still, she falls in.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, worldofbooks, WEST SUSSEX, Goring-By-Sea, [RE:4].
The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Hard cover, Us ed.

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**Barksdale Books**.
Infused with humor and political insight, a riveting travel memoir details the author's experiences as she follows in the footsteps of Graham Greene, who, intrigued by depravity and unpredictability and terrified by the thought of family life, traveled to some of the most perilous and uncared for parts of the world, where he found himself immersed in dark times, from Argentina at war to Cuba on the verge of the revolution. 10,000 first printing.Taal: Engels;Verschijningsdatum: december 2001;ISBN10: 0312282923;ISBN13: 9780312282929; Engelstalig | Hardcover | 2001.

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Hard cover, Us ed.