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Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir
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Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir Paperback - 2001 - 1st Edition

by Gellhorn, Martha

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A witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues and narrow escapes of Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.

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TarcherPerigee, 2001-05-07. 1. paperback. Used: Good.
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  • Title Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir
  • Author Gellhorn, Martha
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher TarcherPerigee, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-05-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG1585420905
  • ISBN 9781585420902 / 1585420905
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Voyages and travels, Gellhorn, Martha - Travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00049749
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

"Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.

Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.

Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic.

From the publisher

Martha Gellhorn published five novels and seven prize-winning collections of her explosive journalism. Her career spanned several decades: She covered the 1937–38 war in Spain, sent dispatches from the front in World War II and followed the trail of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, and reported on the conflicts in Vietnam in 1966 and in Israel in 1967. Gellhorn died in 1998 at the age of eighty-nine.

First line

I was seized by the idea of this book while sitting on a rotten little beach at the western tip of Crete, flanked by a waterlogged shoe and a rusted potty.

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Media reviews

"Gellhorn is incapable of writing a dull sentence."—The Times (London)

About the author

Martha Gellhorn published five novels and seven prize-winning collections of her explosive journalism. Her career spanned several decades: She covered the 1937-38 war in Spain, sent dispatches from the front in World War II and followed the trail of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, and reported on the conflicts in Vietnam in 1966 and in Israel in 1967. Gellhorn died in 1998 at the age of eighty-nine.