Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives - SIGNED

Author(s): Robert Dessaix

Travel

One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, he set off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly to this enigmatic figure. On a magic carpet ride from Lisbon to the edge of the Sahara, from Paris to the south of France and Algiers, Robert takes us to the places where the Nobel Prize-winning author, in ways still scandalous to modern sensibilities, lived out his unconventional ideas about love, marriage, sexuality and religion. Featuring meditations and conversations with fellow travellers on such diverse subjects as why we travel, growing old, illicit passions, and the essence of Protestantism and illustrated with over 100 stunning illustrations and photos . Arabesques is Robert Dessaix and travel memoir at their absolute finest. First published 2008.

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General Fields

  • : 9780330424059
  • : Picador Australia
  • : Picador Australia
  • : 0.908
  • : August 2008
  • : Australia
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 320
  • : hardback with dustjacket
  • : Robert Dessaix