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Norman Lewis
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A Dragon Apparent, Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam  •  Norman Lewis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A classic account of travels and adventure during the last years of French Indochina, strong on atmosphere and including wonderfully detailed descriptions of local cultures and archaeological treasures. First published in 1951. (SEA40, $33.95)
 
 
Golden Earth, Travels in Burma  •  Norman Lewis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The classic, mesmerizing account of the people and country of Burma as recorded by the author during a visit shortly after independence in 1951. (BMA33, $29.95)
 
 
The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed  •  Norman Lewis   • HISTORY  •  A penetrating report on the Mafia, its origins, code, brutality and impact on Sicilian society and culture, originally published in 1964. (ITL735, $33.95)
 
 
Naples '44, A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy  •  Norman Lewis   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A classic book by one of the 20th century's great travel writers. Naples '44 is funny and moving, and ultimately a meditation on war and the indomitable character of the Italian people. (ITL603, $14.95)
 
 
The Tomb in Seville, Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War  •  Norman Lewis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Ostensibly in Spain with his brother-in-law to locate and report on the tomb of the title, Lewis finds their 1934 trip from north to south confounded by developing political events. He looks back at his adventure on the brink of the Spanish Civil War in this sharply observed account. (SPN264, $14.95)
 
 
A View of the World, Selected Journalism  •  Norman Lewis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This enormously pleasurable omnibus from the 1940s to the 1980s includes 20 samples of travels, adventures and encounters to Belize, Liberia, Guatemala, the Amazon, Sardinia and Cuba by the ever insightful Norman Lewis. (TVL24, $32.95)
 
 
Voices of the Old Sea  •  Norman Lewis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An account of life in the remote Spanish fishing village of Farol, on what is now the Costa Brava, in the years after World War II by the wonderful Norman Lewis. (SPN261, $14.95)
 
 
 




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