Travels with Myself and Another

by Martha Gellhorn

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, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.

Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440621574
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/07/2001
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	642,050
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Martha Gellhorn published five novels and seven prize-winning collections of her explosive journalism. Her career spanned several decades: She covered the 1937–38 war in Spain, sent dispatches from the front in World War II and followed the trail of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, and reported on the conflicts in Vietnam in 1966 and in Israel in 1967. Gellhorn died in 1998 at the age of eighty-nine.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Bill Buford
Preface
One: Credentials
Two: Mr. Ma's Tigers
Three: Messing About in Boats
Four: Into Africa
Five: One Look at Mother Russia
Six: What Bores Whom?
Seven: Non-Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

…a brave and oddly merry volume. [Gellhorn] lived the way certain tennis players compete: She rushed the net after every serve…Travels With Myself and Another is her most intimate book and not well-enough known. As Bill Buford wrote in his foreword to a 2001 reissue of it, in the complexity of her observations "she prefigures the works of people like Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux and Jonathan Raban and the renaissance of first-person adventure writing"…[Gellhorn] was tough and brash yet delicate in her way. She sunburned easily. She hated to be dirty. Her stomach was easily upset. These contradictions make her excellent company on the page. She writes about politics and culture and war while never losing sight of the daily indignities that vex all travelers…[Gellhorn's] canny insights into herself and the world keep you on the hook…It's a pleasure to fall off the map while riding shotgun alongside her.

The New York Times - Dwight Garner

"Travels With Myself and Another is [Martha Gellhorn's] most intimate book and not well-enough known. As Bill Buford wrote in his foreword to a 2001 reissue of it, in the complexity of her observations 'she prefigures the works of people like Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux and Jonathan Raban and the renaissance of first-person adventure writing.'" —Dwight Garner, The New  York Times

"Whenever I meet someone who has not yet discovered this book, I attempt to describe why it's so marvellous...delicious reading." --Stephanie Nolan, The Globe and Mail

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