PLEASURES AND LANDSCAPES:A Traveller's Tales from Europe (愉快的欧洲旅程)

Matchless essays on wine, food, and travel by "our prize chronicler of sensuous experience." --Times Literary Supplement
Sybille Bedford once wrote that "travel writing is inseparable from the writer's tastes, idiosyncrasies, and general temperament--it is what happens to him when he is confronted with a column, a bird, a sage, a cheat, a riot; wine, fruit, dirt; the delay in the dirt, the failing airplane." Pleasures and Landscapes is what happened to Mrs. Bedford when, at the peak of her literary powers, she traveled through France, Italy, and the rest of Europe for Vogue, Esquire, and other magazines --eight classic essays that secure her a place at the table with A. J. Liebling and M. F. K. Fisher.

Book Description
Matchless essays on wine, food, and travel by "our prize chronicler of sensuous experience." --Times Literary Supplement

Sybille Bedford once wrote that "travel writing is inseparable from the writer's tastes, idiosyncrasies, and general temperament--it is what happens to him when he is confronted with a column, a bird, a sage, a cheat, a riot; wine, fruit, dirt; the delay in the dirt, the failing airplane." Pleasures and Landscapes is what happened to Mrs. Bedford when, at the peak of her literary powers, she traveled through France, Italy, and the rest of Europe for Vogue, Esquire, and other magazines --eight classic essays that secure her a place at the table with A. J. Liebling and M. F. K. Fisher.


Book Dimension
length: (cm)21.1 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.9

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--novels, travel books, classic accounts of criminal trials and other courtroom cases, and an acclaimed biography of her mentor Aldous Huxley. A vice president of English PEN and one of Britain's nine Companions of Literature, Mrs. Bedford lives in London and is currently at work on a memoir.

Introduction
A Homecoming
The Quality of Travel
The Anchor and the Balloon
Portrait Sketch of a Country
Notes on a Journey in Portugal
A Journey in Yugoslavia
La Vie de Chateau
Venice in Winter