Travels with Myself and Another

by Martha Gellhorn

Book Overview

Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic.

"Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585420905
• ISBN13: 9781585420902
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Travels With Myself And Another

Terrific. I traveled in Africa and Russia during this same period of time and this is what I would have written if I had the ability to do so. She speaks with great honesty and clarity.

AN INTERESTING JOURNEY

Martha Gellhorn's adventures take you on a reality trip. She doesn't gloss it over but has such dry humor and wit. She learns enduring flexblity to hang in there and she teaches you what the journey entails. I liked her! GOOD READ.

A winner!

This is a truly delightful read...Gellhorn's wit and courage shine through. Her observations and insight are so interesting. You will enjoy this book.

the best

As a traveller and a reader, this is one of the best books i have read in a very long time.

Traveling with a world class traveler

This wonderful travelogue of "bad trips" to politically important places takes the reader on an incredible range of journeys to many world hot and "cold" war spots. China and a meeting with Communist leaders in hiding during WWII (with the writer's then husband (Ernest Hemingway) looming large but quietly in the background and a poignant trip to an aging Russian writer in the days of Soviet rule transport us through time and space. Martha Gellhorn, as journalist and fiction writer, needs to be "recovered" with the very best of war correspondents of any gender and the adventuresome and unbelievably courageous woman travelers of the 20th century. The section on Gellhorn's travels in Africa, because it is so "honest" and forthright on matters of race, will strike some as politically incorrect, but her descriptions of modes of transport, race, missionaries and the search for exotic animals are among the most vivid anywhere. This book moves the reader -- through time and space, brain and heart.