Norman Lewis: 19 books
Naples '44
A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The basis for the powerful documentary narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, Lewis’s memoir of the Italian city after Nazi occupation is a “masterpiece” (Will Self).
“Vivid, lucid, elegant, often funny,” Naples ’44 is the starkly human account of the true cost of war as seen through...
A Voyage By Dhow
Selected Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Consummate travel writer Norman Lewis’s most remarkable travel essays, collected in one volume
“You’d find it of immense interest, I assure you, and full of amazing adventures.” So says a British colonial official to Norman Lewis while imploring him to visit Yemen at a time when the...
To Run Across the Sea
Selected Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
An engrossing collection of travel essays from esteemed writer Norman Lewis
Auberon Waugh called Norman Lewis “the best travel writer of our age, if not the best since Marco Polo,” and here, Lewis’s trademark elegant prose is on display, along with his uncanny ability to travel to a place...
The Happy Ant-Heap
And Other Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Experience the far reaches of the world in this eclectic collection of travel essays by acclaimed writer Norman Lewis
The Happy Ant-Heap is Norman Lewis’s powerful and stylish collection of decades’ worth of travel writing. Lewis’s deft social commentary captures life from all corners...
The World, the World
Memoirs of a Legendary Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The acclaimed travel writer recounts six decades of adventures around the globe, from conversations with Hemingway to his war service in North Africa.
The consummate gentleman adventurer, writer Norman Lewis spent more than half a century exploring the globe and chronicling the amazing things...
The Tomb in Seville
Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
An account by “the finest travel writer of the last century” of his journey through 1930s Spain in search of an ancestral tomb (The New Yorker).
In the 1930s, Norman Lewis and his brother-in-law, Eugene Corvaja, journeyed to Spain to visit the family’s ancestral tomb in Seville. Seventy...
I Came, I Saw
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Poignant tales from the renowned travel writer’s formative years
In over six decades as a travel writer, Norman Lewis earned acclaim for his vivid chronicles of life around the globe. In I Came, I Saw,Lewis turns his pen on his own life in an affecting, comical, and always-thoughtful autobiography.
He...
An Empire of the East
Travels in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
From Sumatra to East Timor and beyond, An Empire of the East is a fascinating look at a rapidly changing island nation
In An Empire of the East, renowned travel essayist Norman Lewis takes readers to Indonesia, where some thirteen thousand islands in the South Pacific are each colored with...
A Goddess in the Stones
Travels in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
“An absorbing introduction” to the tribal peoples of India, their ancient traditions, and the remote regions that they inhabit (Kirkus Reviews).
In the 1990s, the fifty-four million members of India’s tribal colonies accounted for seven percent of the country’s total population—yet...
The Missionaries
God Against the Indians
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
The renowned travel writer delivers “a scathing account of how some missionary sects deal with indigenous peoples in their bid for the conquest of souls” (Library Journal).
Acclaimed travel essayist Norman Lewis spent his life traversing the globe and offering thoughtful commentary on...
by Norman Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
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 - through his frequent returns, he has watched the island and its people as they have...
by Norman Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A memoir of a remote Spanish fishing village just after WWII, a community on the brink of change, by “the finest travel writer of the last century” (The New Yorker).
Seeking solace in the everyday after his World War II army service, travel writer Norman Lewis returns to his beloved Spain,...
Big Potatoes
The London Manifesto for Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
When it was first published in January 2010, the Big Potatoes manifesto quickly created an international circle of enthusiasts – people who believed, and still believe, that the pace of technological innovation in the West is too slow. Now, a little later, what the Economist (12 January 2013) has...
Word Power Made Easy
The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The most effective vocabulary builder in the English language provides a simple, step-by-step method that will increase your knowledge and mastery of written and spoken English. Word Power Made Easy does more than just add words to your vocabulary. It teaches ideas and a method of broadening your...
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