Series: Eland Classic

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 Sultanate of Muscat and Oman was a hermit state until 1970, preserving in every detail the poverty, personality, and picturesque reality of a medieval kingdom. For forty years, Sultan Said bin Taimur personally controlled everything that happened, deliberately cutting the nation off from the headlong development of the rest of the world. Fortunately for Oman, this would change, and...

The Station follows three high-spirited young men as they visit twenty monasteries on Mount Athos in 1927. They examine treasures, photograph frescoes, and sketch the courtyards and those who live in them. They swim ecstatically off the sparkling, deserted beaches, climb mountains, talk and share meals with monks, and transcribe these conversations with relish. For life is very different for...

Welcome to Paradise opens a window into the hearts of a small group of African would-be emigrants, waiting on the beach in Morocco for a boat that will take them to a new life in Europe. As we shelter with them in the darkness, we hear of the cruelty, misfortune and grinding poverty which has compelled them here, to pit...