Lesley Blanch: 4 books
The Wilder Shores of Love
The Stories of Four Nineteenth-century Women who Travelled East
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Ideal reading for anyone looking for adventure and romance in unusual settings.
Lesley Blanch writes about four strong women in The Wilder Shores of Love. Turning East, away from 19th Century Europe and conventional living, they found emancipation through escape and adventure. Isabel Burton...
Journey Into the Mind's Eye
Fragments of an Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond.
“My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will just have to invent a new category,”...
by Lesley Blanch
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorne and in the grips of a passionate obsession. The search to recapture the love of her...
by Lesley Blanch
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
A grand tour for the taste buds—a delightful classic cookbook of the postwar era from a well-traveled woman.
This charming little book was first published in 1956, when people in England were still enduring postwar restrictions on both traveling and eating. In the words of its author, Lesley...