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As I walked out one midsummer morning

Lee, Laurie2014
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Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for 'Will you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations. This book paints a lyrical picture of a beautiful and violent country that was to involve him inextricably.
Main title:
As I walked out one midsummer morning / Laurie Lee ; illustrated by Leonard Rosoman.
Author:
Lee, LaurieMacfarlane, Robert, 1976-, writer of introduction
Imprint:
Harmondsworth : Penguin, 2014.London : Penguin Books, 2014.©1969.
Collation:
186 p. : ill., 1 map ; 18 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: [New York] : Atheneum ; [London] : André Deutsch, 1969.
ISBN:
97802419532800241953286 (pbk)
Dewey class:
914.60481B/
LC class:
PR 6023 .E285 A8 1971
Language:
English
BRN:
676666
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