Norman Lewis

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Jackdaw Cake is Norman Lewis's account of the first half of his adventurous life, infused with his dry, infectious, and laconic wit. He takes us on a transformative journey from a stammering schoolboy to a worldly-wise, multilingual sergeant in the Intelligence Corps. In Auberon Waugh's words, Lewis was on the brink of becoming "the greatest travel writer alive, if not...

This book contains the very best of Norman Lewis's travel writing. If you already own The Changing Sky (Jonathan Cape, 1959), which was later expanded by Eland in 1986 with the addition of another eight pieces and given a fresh title, A View of the World, you will encounter stories you have already read. An additional source are the three...

The Missionaries was intended to be the concluding trilogy of a series of autobiographical books, beginning with Voices of the Old Sea and Jackdaw Cake. However, it was instead transmuted into a deeply searing examination of the extermination of indigenous tribes by North American fundamentalist missionaries. This narrative is all the more powerful as it represents the distillation of a...

Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when, in 1991, he embarked on a series of three arduous journeys into the most contentious corners of Indonesia: into the extreme western edge of Sumatra, into East Timor, and Irian Jaya. He never drops his guard, reporting only on what he can observe, and using his well-honed tools of irony, humour, and restraint...

In Sicily is a loving take on an extraordinary island, based on Norman Lewis's sixty-year-long fascination with all things Sicilian. Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis, but always, in the course of his long career, he has come back to Sicily. From his first wartime visit to a land untouched since the Middle Ages...

Naples '44 follows Norman Lewis as he arrives in war-torn Naples as an intelligence officer in 1944. The city is a world where the starving population has devoured all the tropical fish in the aquarium, respectable women have been driven to prostitution, and the black market reigns supreme. Lewis finds little to admire among his fellow soldiers, but he gains...