Keeping up with DH Lawrence: On the trail of David and Frieda

Keeping up with DH Lawrence: On the trail of David and Frieda Lawrence in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia

In January 1921 DH Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, left their Taormina home in Sicily and set off on a nine-day excursion to and through Sardinia and back to Sicily via mainland Italy. At the end of the year Sea and Sardinia, Lawrence's fast-paced account of their journey, was published in New York by Thomas Seltzer.
Keeping up with the Lawrences is Niall Allsop's contemporary account of making the same journey, as far as possible keeping to the same route, the same timescale, the same mode of transport and the same overnight stops as the Lawrences.
Like Sea and Sardinia, Keeping up with the LawrencesÂ is written in the present tense but there the comparisons end for, unlike Niall, Lawrence was not a tolerant traveller, was not the sort to initiate conversations, was not what Italians call simpatico.
Lawrence travelled at time of heightened tensions in Europe after the Great War and these are reflected in his outlook and the people he encountered, most of whom he gave nicknames such as Hamlet, the Bounder and the Sludge Queen.
Niall traversed the same route in a different world, a brave new world of iPods and tele-communications masts, and here he met Julius Caesar and Cicero, Wonderwoman and Red ... and many more colorful and interesting characters, brought to life on the pages of this unique travelogue.
Country USA
Brand CREATESPACE
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781453698020
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	CREATESPACE
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781453698020
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Keeping up with DH Lawrence: On the trail of David and Frieda Lawrence in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia

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