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World Books, 1970 - Memoirs - 254 pp.
Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for 'Will you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . .
Review:
A beautiful piece of writing Observer The vivid sensitive, irresistibly readable story of what happened after he left home -- Daily Mail
A poet's book -- Sunday Times
He writes like an angel and conveys the pride and vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness, zest and humour -- Sunday Times
There's a formidable, instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down -- New Statesman
About the author (2014)
Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in A Moment of War.
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