200 pages. Size: 135 x 205 mm. Paperback. EAN: 9781842321744 ISBN: 1842321749 Alternative EAN:
This hilarious instalment from Simon Raven’s entertaining autobiography takes the reader to the four corners of the globe. A lifetime spent travelling as a soldier and as a civilian brought Raven into contact with an amazing selection of characters: Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood, Morgan Grenfell, plus eccentrics such as Colonel Cuthbert Smith and ‘Parafit’ Paradore. Army life, travels, meetings, dinners and calamities take place in Kenya, Bombay, the Red Sea, Greece and California, among other exotic locations. Wherever he is, Raven entertains us in typical style. Simon Raven
‘His relish for his subject and for a milieu which persists, almost as a state of mind, continues to be infectious.’ - Daily Telegraph
‘The master’s pen has lost none of its Ciceronian, Rabelaisian subtlety.’ - Sunday Times
‘As always with Simon Raven, the joy of his book is its hilarity, first-rate prose and breathtaking lack of hypocrisy.’ - The Times
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