From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's world.
Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the
English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was
educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the
age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot
through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil
War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in
A Moment of War.
Laurie Lee published four collections of poems- The Sun My Monument
(1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and
Pocket Poems (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan
(1948), The Firstborn (1964), I Can't Stay Long (1975), and Two
Women (1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of
autobiography- Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six
million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
(1969) and A Moment of War (1991).
Age is taking Lee's eyesight but polishing up the anecdotes and
deepening his characteristic note of wistfulness for a lost age ...
It is a fine thing to revisit this writer's landscape and hear his
amiable voice in it again.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Down in the Valley is truly evocative of time and place. A
beautiful illustration of how, in some way, we are all indelibly
influenced by the landscape of our childhood.
*Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path*
Age is taking Lee's eyesight but polishing up the anecdotes and
deepening his characteristic note of wistfulness for a lost age ...
It is a fine thing to revisit this writer's landscape and hear his
amiable voice in it again.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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