In 1957, Naomi Mitchison enjoyed two months 'of observation and
thought' as she travelled in parts of postcolonial West Africa. She
was the guest of friends new and old and, in Ghana, stayed at the
Press Hotel, in her then role as a correspondent with The
Manchester Guardian. Her reflections are presented in chapters - on
social bars and classes, language, words, history, religion,
morals, education, politics, clothes, art and music - as she pulls
together her view of the ways in which 'Other People's Worlds', at
different stages of development, impact on one another. 'Perhaps',
she concludes, 'it is really everyone's world'. Fasten your seat
belts, for the delights of Naomi Mitchison's 1981 overview of her
travel writing from the 1920s onwards. Drawn from her writings as
an author, journalist, letter writer and diarist 'Mucking Around.
Five Continents over Fifty Years' is the memoir of an enthusiastic
traveller and outspoken observer of 'other countries' - that is,
countries across the world as visited from Scotland. The accounts
are divided into four sections or bearings: South-West-by-North,
West-by-East, East-by-South-East and South.
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