A Quiet Evening

The Travels of Norman Lewis

Norman Lewis

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Eland Publishing Ltd
16 January 2025

Travel & holiday; Travel writing

Series: Eland Classic

This book contains the very best of Norman Lewis's travel writing.

If you already own The Changing Sky (Jonathan Cape, 1959) which was later expanded by Eland (in 1986 with the addition of another eight pieces) and given a fresh title, A View of the World, you will encounter stories you have already read. An additional source are the three collections published by Picador, To Run Across the Sea (1989) The Happy Ant Heap (1998), and A Voyage by Dhow (2001) which sometimes included, or re-worked material, that had appeared in other books. By happy agreement with the literary estate of Norman Lewis, all these five books have been withdrawn, so that all the best pieces are now in one book

A Quiet Evening. Norman always acknowledged the editors who commissioned him to travel

most of these pieces were originally written at the instigation of the New Yorker, The Sunday Times, the Observer and New Statesman.

By: Norman Lewis
Imprint: Eland Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781780602318
ISBN 10: 1780602316
Series: Eland Classic
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 16 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Norman Lewis wrote thirteen novels and thirteen works of non-fiction, mostly travel books, but he regarded his life s major achievement to be the reaction to an article written by him entitled Genocide in Brazil, published in The Sunday Times in 1968. This led to a change in the Brazilian law relating to the treatment of Indians, and to the formation of Survival International, the influential international organisation which campaigns for the rights of tribal peoples.

Reviews for A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis

Lewis is such a fine and amusing writer and also such an intensely moral and humane one that he can make even the most horrible situations both bearable and instructive.' - William Dalrymple, Sunday Times