Description
| Product ID: | 9780907871873 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Visit to Don Otavio |
| Authors: | Author: Sybille Bedford |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Travel writing, Travel writing, Mexico |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of the horrors of travel - through bug-infested jungle, trapped in a broiling stationary train, or in a bus with a dead fish slapping against her face - she gains our trust. But it is the charmed world of Don Otavio which steals our imagination. He is, she says, "one of the kindest men I ever met". She stays in his crumbling ancestral mansion, living a life of provincial ease and observing with glee the intense life of a Mexican neighbourhood. |
| Imprint Name: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2002-07-31 |
