Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013
Liveright, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. xxiii+ 464 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions of manuscript pages and drawings. The travel journals of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, spanning over sixty years and selected from a vast trove of mostly unpublished, handwritten notebooks. They begin with his account of seving as a commanding officer on a Navy sub-chaser during D-Day in 1944 and continue through his observations such events as the Cuban Revolution in 1960, a trip through Haiti, a trip through California's Salton Sea, a journey across the Trans-Siberian Railway and his subsequent removal from it for lack of proper papers, a meeting with Ezra Pound as well as fellow Beat legends Allan Ginsburg and William S. Burroughs. As New / as new. Item #E25065
ISBN: 9781631490019
Price: $32.50