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Journey into the Mind's Eye

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Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorne and in the grips of a passionate obsession. The search to recapture the love of her life, and the Russia that he had planted within her, takes her to Siberia and beyond, journeying deep ... Read more

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Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorne and in the grips of a passionate obsession. The search to recapture the love of her life, and the Russia that he had planted within her, takes her to Siberia and beyond, journeying deep
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Round the World in Eighty Dishes

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A grand tour for the taste buds—a delightful classic cookbook of the postwar era from a well-traveled woman.This charming little book was first published in 1956, when people in England were still enduring postwar restrictions on both traveling and eating. In the words of its author, Lesley Blanch, "benign fate whisked me elsewhere to follow less restricted ways, travelling widely and eating ... Read more

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A grand tour for the taste buds—a delightful classic cookbook of the postwar era from a well-traveled woman.This charming little book was first published in 1956, when people in England were still enduring postwar restrictions on both traveling and eating. In the words of its author, Lesley Blanch, "benign fate whisked me elsewhere to follow less restricted ways, travelling widely and eating
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THE SABRES OF PARADISE

Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus

by Lesley Blanch ...

The struggle of the people of the Caucasus to remain independent of Russia is disturbingly relevant to our world today.The definitive biography of Imam Shamyl, which took six years to complete. Research was done in Russia and the Caucasus, including tracing his descendants in Turkey and Egypt. Also a historical narrative, there are beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus – a region of supreme ... Read more

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The struggle of the people of the Caucasus to remain independent of Russia is disturbingly relevant to our world today.The definitive biography of Imam Shamyl, which took six years to complete. Research was done in Russia and the Caucasus, including tracing his descendants in Turkey and Egypt. Also a historical narrative, there are beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus – a region of supreme
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PIERRE LOTI

Portrait of an Escapist

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The definitive biography of the eccentric bisexual naval officer, traveller, amateur acrobat, and best-selling novelist who was given a state funeral in 1923, the only French writer to have received such an honour other than Victor Hugo.Pierre Loti (born Julien Viaud in 1850) was himself his own fictional creation and lived his picaresque fantasies instead of just imagining them. Everything he ... Read more

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The definitive biography of the eccentric bisexual naval officer, traveller, amateur acrobat, and best-selling novelist who was given a state funeral in 1923, the only French writer to have received such an honour other than Victor Hugo.Pierre Loti (born Julien Viaud in 1850) was himself his own fictional creation and lived his picaresque fantasies instead of just imagining them. Everything he
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Regency England Undressed

Harriette Wilson, the Greatest Courtesan of her Age

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Lesley Blanch’s novella-length introduction to the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, the reigning courtesan of Regency London, was first published in 1955 in New York, where she was then living with her diplomat-novelist husband, Romain Gary. The Wilder Shores of Love, for which Blanch is chiefly remembered, had been published to acclaim the previous year.Harriette Wilson lived among and was an ... Read more

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Lesley Blanch’s novella-length introduction to the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, the reigning courtesan of Regency London, was first published in 1955 in New York, where she was then living with her diplomat-novelist husband, Romain Gary. The Wilder Shores of Love, for which Blanch is chiefly remembered, had been published to acclaim the previous year.Harriette Wilson lived among and was an
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THE NINE TIGER MAN

A Satirical Romance

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When East meet West: in this witty satirical romance, Lesley Blanch recreates the British India of the 1850’s, where representatives of Victoria’s England preside uneasily over the glittering remnants of the Moghul Empire.The Rao divided women into two categories: those with bodies and those with jewels . . . Prim and proper Lady Florence and her down-to-earth maid, Rosie, first encounter a ... Read more

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When East meet West: in this witty satirical romance, Lesley Blanch recreates the British India of the 1850’s, where representatives of Victoria’s England preside uneasily over the glittering remnants of the Moghul Empire.The Rao divided women into two categories: those with bodies and those with jewels . . . Prim and proper Lady Florence and her down-to-earth maid, Rosie, first encounter a
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Far to Go and Many to Love

People and Places

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Series Book 4 - Contemporary Classics
“I love LB. WHAT a spirit. What courage. What class” – MIRANDA SEYMOURFar To Go and Many To Love: People and Places is the sequel to the memoirs of Lesley Blanch, published posthumously by Virago, On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life.The collection opens with an insightful introduction about her two great loves: émigré theatre director, Theodore Komisarjevsky, and twice-Goncourt-winning ... Read more

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“I love LB. WHAT a spirit. What courage. What class” – MIRANDA SEYMOURFar To Go and Many To Love: People and Places is the sequel to the memoirs of Lesley Blanch, published posthumously by Virago, On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life.The collection opens with an insightful introduction about her two great loves: émigré theatre director, Theodore Komisarjevsky, and twice-Goncourt-winning
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The Wilder Shores of Love

The Stories of Four Nineteenth-century Women who Travelled East

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Ideal reading for anyone looking for adventure and romance in unusual settings.Lesley Blanch writes about four strong women in The Wilder Shores of Love. Turning East, away from 19th Century Europe and conventional living, they found emancipation through escape and adventure. Isabel Burton married the Arabist and explorer Richard Burton; they worked together on his translation of A Thousand and ... Read more

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Ideal reading for anyone looking for adventure and romance in unusual settings.Lesley Blanch writes about four strong women in The Wilder Shores of Love. Turning East, away from 19th Century Europe and conventional living, they found emancipation through escape and adventure. Isabel Burton married the Arabist and explorer Richard Burton; they worked together on his translation of A Thousand and
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Journey Into the Mind's Eye

Fragments of an Autobiography

by Lesley Blanch ...

A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond.“My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will just have to invent a new category,” Lesley Blanch wrote about Journey into the Mind’s Eye, a book that remains as singularly adventurous ... Read more

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A stunning tale set in England, Paris, and Moscow, chronicling Blanch's love for an older Russian man and the passionate obsession that takes her to Siberia and beyond.“My book is not altogether autobiography, nor altogether travel or history either. You will just have to invent a new category,” Lesley Blanch wrote about Journey into the Mind’s Eye, a book that remains as singularly adventurous
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Caliban's War

by James S. A. Corey ...

Series Book 2 - The Expanse
**With over 10 million copies sold, The Expanse has become one of the biggest science fiction phenomenons of the decade.The second book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series.**We are not alone. On Ganymede, ... Read more

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**With over 10 million copies sold, The Expanse has become one of the biggest science fiction phenomenons of the decade.The second book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series.**We are not alone. On Ganymede,
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Leviathan Wakes

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Series Book 1 - The Expanse
From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Now a Prime Original series.Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of ... Read more

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From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Now a Prime Original series.Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of
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Leviathan Falls

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Series Book 9 - The Expanse
**With over 10 million copies sold, The Expanse has become one of the biggest science fiction phenomenons of the decade.The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series.**The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar ... Read more

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**With over 10 million copies sold, The Expanse has become one of the biggest science fiction phenomenons of the decade.The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series.**The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar
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