'He painted pictures in vivid colours to the songs of flutes.'--Khushwant Singh
Under Something of a Cloud spans a lifetime of Dom Moraes' work to select the very best of his travel writing. Featured in this volume is a vividly recollected childhood tour of Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and Australia with his father, Frank Moraes, and his mother, Beryl, who was then rapidly sliding into madness; a darkly comic account of a trip...