View from the Ground - Softcover

Gellhorn, Martha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871132125 ISBN 13: 9780871132123

Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing, 1994

Synopsis

First published in 1959, but now offered in a revised and expanded edition, The View from the Ground presents over six decades of Gellhorn's ruminations on political, civil, and social issues and crises, from a lynching in the American South in the 1930s through a recent visit to Cuba to see what is new and what remains the same in a country that is still off limits to most Americans. Gellhorn's ability to get to the truth of a situation heard makes her writing transcend the short shelf life of most reportage.

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About the Author

MARTHA GELLHORN (1908-98) was born in St Louis, Missouri. In 1930, she talked her way into a free passage to Europe and arrived in Paris with seventy-five dollars in her pocket and the conviction that she could earn a living as a foreign correspondent. She returned to the United States in 1934 and two years later published her acclaimed The Trouble I've Seen. It was at this time that she met Ernest Hemingway, whom she married.
In 1937 she returned to Europe as a war correspondent, and for the first nine years she reported on the wars in Spain, Finland, China and Java and finally from Europe during the Second World War. After 1946 she continued to report on whatever engaged her interest and concern, from Vietnam to the Middle East and the wars in Central America.
As well as her journalism, Martha Gellhorn was the author of novels, collections of stories, novellas, works of non-fiction and a play.

Synopsis

Essays written between the thirties and the eighties describe conditions in England, Poland, Israel, Patestine, Spain, Cuba, and South America.

Edition details

• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871132125
• ISBN 13: 9780871132123
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 419