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Reading Wright

Anita Mathias — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:53:00 +0000

Reading Wright I’ve just read Richard Wright’s memoir, Black Boy, about how discovering books changed his life in oppressive Mississippi. “I hungered for books,” he writes, “new ways of looking and seeing. Reading grew into a passion. It had been only through books–vicarious cultural transfusions–that I had managed to keep myself alive. From […]

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Jan Morris on Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M Doughty

Anita Mathias — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:38:00 +0000

Jan Morris on Travels in Arabia Deserta by Charles M Doughty Not many books can claim to be entirely unique, but one of them is undoubtedly Charles Montague Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta, which he wrote in 1888 when he was 45 years old. It is unique in its subject matter – the first book […]

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The Worst Journey in the World Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Anita Mathias — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:55:00 +0000

The Worst Journey in the World Apsley Cherry-Garrard Cherry-Garrard’s introduction: Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and keep them on untilChristmas, and, save for a […]

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