Status Updates From A Time of Gifts

Magnifico diario di viaggio risalente ad un viaggio pedonale negli anni trenta, sono soltanto al primo volume di tre ma si legge già chiaramente il capolavoro. Consigliatissimo a chi ama questo genere.

From his demeanor and the excellence of his English I think a stranger in a railway carriage would have taken him for an Englishman but of a half-patrician, half-scholarly kind which even then seemed threatened with extinction. I knew that his life had been full of movement and adventures, quite apart from his two marriages….