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Cargando... Three Letters from the Andes (1991)por Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is my kind of travel writing - details of the logistics of moving about the country, the trials and tribulations of booking rooms when you don't know what to ask for, who cooks and who climbs, NOT being able to go certain places, and contemplative descriptions of the world around you - good and bad. I read this non-stop and wish it was 10 times as long! In 1971, Patrick Leigh Fermor, then in his mid 50s, went on holiday to Peru with a small group that included his friend Andrew, the Duke of Devonshire. Twenty years later, he published this book of the letters he sent to his wife from Peru describing the group's travels by train, truck and boat, as well as a 9-day trek though the Andes with eight ponies to carry their luggage. It's a small book of just over 100 pages; even three very long letters don't make for a long book. Awful, truly awful. What preposterous nonsense! I took this with me on a trip to Bolivia. The idea being of course that it would benefit from being read in situ. It was the sort of trip where you (literally) weigh up what goes in to your rucksack as every gram counts if you have to carry it for a month. It's not a big book but I wish I hadn't. Self-indulgent twaddle. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In 1971 the celebrated traveller Patrick Leigh Fermor accompanied five friends on a remarkable journey into the high Andes of Peru. His adventure took him from Cuzco to Urubamba, on to Puno and Juli on Lake Titicaca, down to Arequipa and finally back to Lima. The expedition was led by a writer and poet and the party included a Swiss international skier and jeweller, a social anthropologist from Provence and a Nottinghamshire farming squire - all seasoned mountaineers. The other two participants - the author himself and a botany-loving duke - were complete novices. As the group travelled from Lima into increasingly remote parts of the country, Leigh Fermor captured their experiences in a series of letters to his wife. Whether recounting the thrill of crossing a glacier, the rigours of campsite life under a blanket of snow, their lively encounters with locals or the strangely moving sight of a lone condor circling in the sky, the author vividly conveys the excitement of discovery and the intense uniqueness of the land. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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> BAnQ (Cazelais N., Le devoir, 28 mai 1992) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2764619
> Télérama (Jean Jacques Le Gall, le 22/06/11) : https://www.telerama.fr/livre/patrick-leigh-fermor-le-gentleman-qui-parcourut-le...
> Nuit blanche, (50), déc. 1992, janv.–févr. 1993, p. 71 : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/21597ac
> Lisez Patrick Leigh Fermor, dans une veine plus littéraire, moins humoristique. Tout aussi excentrique, Traduction de Three letters from the Andes. Courrier des Andes, sous-titré Chronique nostalgique du pays inca, vient de paraître chez Phébus (XXX $) raconte avec une acuité indélébile un voyage fait... en 1971. Sans perdre ni sa pertinence ni son actualité. Peut- être partirez-vous vers le Pérou... (Normand CAZELAIS)
—Le devoir, 13 juin 1992 : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2764661