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Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. I had a great longing to move, she said, to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible. And so she set out for Mexico--and, incidentally, to write what Bruce Chatwin called the best travel book of the twentieth century, a book of marvels, to be read again and again and again.
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Review
A classic. From the first page there is no doubt this journey to Mexico will be rewarding and exciting. -- The Evening News
A work which invokes that disturbing and paradoxical country as vividly as anything by D H Lawrence... A wonderful book. -- Bruce Chatwin
An absolutely first class writer at the top of her powers. -- The Literary Review
An extremely enjoyable, often hilarious, occasionally lyrical and surprisingly relevant account of Ms Bedford's travels through Mexico in the 1950's -- The Rough Guide to Mexico
Perceptive, lively, aware of the significance of trifles, and a fine writer. -- The Times
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Classic travel account republished
One of the Picador Travel Classic series, republished in a hardback collector's edition, A Visit to Don Otavio tells of a journey that begins on Grand Central Station and continues to Mexico, with its pleasures and horrors frankly retold. The eponymous host is a bankrupt squire still inhabiting his lakeside house with seventeen servants to wait on him.
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- PublisherCounterpoint
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 158243171X
- ISBN 13 9781582431710
- BindingPaperback
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