Travels with Myself and Another: Five Journeys from Hell

Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her 'best horror journeys'. She bumps through rain- sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of U-boats in the wartime Caribbean and visits a dissident writer in the Soviet Union against her better judgement. Written with the eye of a novelist and an ironic black humour, what makes these tales irresistable are Gellhorn's explosive and often surprising reactions. Indignant, but never righteous an...