A Dragon Apparent, Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam  •  Norman Lewis TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 358 PAGES • 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. Originally published in 1951, this was the first title by John Hatt and the estimable Eland books. (SEA40, $33.95)
Golden Earth, Travels in Burma  •  Norman Lewis TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 275 PAGES 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, $31.95)
The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed  •  Norman Lewis HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 276 PAGES A penetrating report on the Mafia, its origins, code, brutality and impact on Sicilian society and culture, originally published in 1964. Lewis was stationed as a young British intelligence officer in Naples in the wake of Mussolin's defeat. (ITL735, $33.95)
Naples '44, A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy  •  Norman Lewis BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2005 •  PAPER  • 187 PAGES Lewis's diary-turned-memoir of his time as a British intelligence officer in occupied Italy, originally published in 1978. 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 •  2006 •  PAPER  • 150 PAGES Lewis looks back at a 1934 adventure in this sharply observed account of hard travel in Spain. Ostensibly in Spain with his brother-in-law to find and report on the tomb of the title, their trip from north to south quickly becomes confounded by developing political events. (SPN264, $14.95)
A View of the World, Selected Journalism  •  Norman Lewis TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES This enormously pleasurable omnibus from the 1940s to the 1980s includes a sampling of travels, adventures and encounters by the ever insightful Norman Lewis. The 20 chapters include Belize, Liberia, Guatemala, the Amazon, Sardinia and Cuba. (TVL24, $32.95)
Voices of the Old Sea  •  Norman Lewis TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2006 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES An account of life in a remote Spanish fishing village of Farol in the years after World War II by the wonderful Norman Lewis. (SPN261, $14.95)