Pre-Owned As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Paperback) 9781567923926

from BeesleSR

Reading this book I want to be walking the hot roads of Spain, resting in cool moist bars in Madrid, sleeping in the open, and eating simply. If you wish to have the ultimate vicarious experience and you want to wish you were young and adventurous then pick up this glorious evocation of a lost ti...

from chrisv

Amazing account of the author's travels in pre-war Spain. It's told in retrospect but it seems another world. with nothing in his pocket laurie lee sets out to walk to spain and this is the account of his adventures, matter of fact low key but draws a vivid picture of the pre-civil war spain. I'd...

from rocketjk

As I Walked Out . . . is the memoir of a young Englishman who spent a year walking through Spain on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, written almost 30 years later, in 1969. We get not only a fascinating look at the almost medieval world that was Spain in those days, but also a compelling coming ...

from bezoar44

Writing years after the fact, Laurie Lee tells of his departure on foot from his childhood home in the Cotswolds in 1934, age 19; a summer spent busking, playing his violin in coastal tourist towns; a winter doing unskilled construction work in London; and his travels on foot across Spain in 1935...

from Big_Bang_Gorilla

Being a man's reminiscences of leaving home on foot for London, his year as a workman there, and then, the heart of the book, his walk across a Spain which was on the eve of civil war. The book is justly famed for Lee's pellucid, evocative prose; his descriptions of the towns and the people he me...