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Late in her life, Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) produced a masterpiece of travel writing. Travels with Myself and Another (1978) belongs in company with the classics of the genre: Peter Fleming's Brazilian Adventure, Robert Byron's Road to Oxiana, Eric Newby's Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, and Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia--as a rule, the work of self-deprecating young Englishmen. Gellhorn's recountings of horror journeys in China, the Caribbean, Russia, and Africa are full of caustic humor, and the author comes through as a strong-willed, difficult, and thoroughly irresistable woman.
Travels was a departure as Gellhorn's reputation was from earnest journalism. ...
Source: HighBeam Research, A dime store Jane Austen.(The Collected Letters of Martha...