A VISIT TO DON OTAVIO: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico

Bedford, Sybille

ISBN 10: 158243171X / ISBN 13: 9781582431710

Published by Counterpoint, New York, 2003

About this Item

Introduction by Bruce Chatwin. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. 370 pages, with map. No names or marks. A crisp, unmarked, as new copy, with sharp corners, of the 2003 Counterpoint reprint.

Seller Inventory # 7433

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A VISIT TO DON OTAVIO: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico
• Publisher: Counterpoint, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 158243171X
• ISBN 13: 9781582431710
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. I had a great longing to move, she said, to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible. And so she set out for Mexico--and, incidentally, to write what Bruce Chatwin called the best travel book of the twentieth century, a book of marvels, to be read again and again and again.

About the Author

Sybille Bedford was born in 1911, in Charlottenburg, Germany, and was brought up in Italy, England, and France. in 1953, she made her literary debut with A Visit to Don Otavio, and has since published eight other books - including Jigsaw, A Legacy, A Favourite of the Gods, and A Compass Error, as well as classic accounts of criminal trials and other courtroom cases, and an acclaimed biography of her mentor Aldous Huxley. She was vice president of English PEN and one of Britain's nine Companions of Literature. Ms. Bedford lived in London where she passed away in February 2006.