Martha Gellhorn

The Weather in Africa by Martha Gellhorn comprises three novellas that explore the lives of Europeans amidst the dramatic landscape of East Africa. Two sisters, one beautiful and one plain, return unmarried from their ventures in the great world to their parents' hotel, On The Mountain, where they become embroiled in scandalous relations with an African official and an English...

Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her best horror journeys. She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean, and visits a dissident writer in the Soviet Union against her better judgement. Written with the eye of a novelist and an ironic black humour, what...

Martha Gellhorn's peacetime dispatches bear witness to six decades of change: America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Spain in the days after Franco's death, Cuba revisited after forty-one years. Here is history as it looked and felt to the people who lived through it. Intense,...