One of the greatest travellers and travel writers, who, sadly, died
in 1989, recorded some of his journeys through life in this last
book. He writes memorably of Malraux, Mrs Gandhi and Werner Herzog
in action as he directs The Viceroy of Ouidah. His manner of
observing is unique. (Kirkus UK)
'WHAT AM I DOING HERE (the question Rimbaud asked in Ethiopia), because it is more ragged than anything else he wrote, tells us more about him - his interests and friends, if not his passions. He writesof his father, of his friend...Howard Hodgkin, and his tete-a-tetes with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandalstram...Ideally he gets a reallybizarre bee in his bonnet, such as a rumour of 'wolf-boy' in India, ora Chinese fengshui geomancer in Hong Kong, or the idea of looking for a Yeti, and he sets off and deals with it. At its most successful histravel is a search for an unholy grail - something freakish, plainly an excuse - and off he goes, and the piece is a winner' Paul Theroux, Telegraph
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