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Jackdaw Cake
eBook - An Autobiography
ISBN/EAN: 9781780600338
Umbreit-Nr.: 9083778
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 256 S., 0.56 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 18.03.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- With dry, laconic wit, Norman Lewis remembers his transformation from stammering Welsh schoolboy to worldy wise, multilingual sergeant in the Intelligence Corps, on the cusp of becoming a writer. With a calm, observant gaze from the start, the young Norman moves from Spiritualist parents in Enfield to live with supremely dotty aunts in Carmarthen, whose baking of a weekly cake to feed the jackdaws gives the book its title. Escaping his eccentric family by marrying the daughter of a Sicilian associate of the Mafia, Norman made a living as a wedding photographer and by dealing in cameras, while restoring and racing Bugattis for pleasure. Here we see his first journeys in Spain, Cuba and the Yemen and a wartime spent in Algeria, Sicily and Italy, all of which acted as an apprenticeship for his career as one of the twentieth century's greatest travel writers.