Journey into the Mind's Eye - Softcover

Blanch, Lesley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0907871542 ISBN 13: 9780907871545

Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd, 2005

Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorn and in the grips of a passionate obsession. The search to recapture the love of her life, and the Russia he had planted within her, takes her to Siberia and beyond, journeying deep into the romantic terrain of the mind's eye. Part travel book, part love story, Lesley Blanch's Journey into the Mind's Eye is pure intoxication.

Review:

Her depiction of the comedy of life, as well as the poignancy of human suffering, is always perfectly accomplished. -- Harvard Review

One of the finest books about Russia...one of the best travel books of its generation. -- Philip Mansel, The Spectator

About the Author:

Lesley Blanch (1904-2007) was born in London and attended St. Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith, and later studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art. She designed costumes and scenes for theater and book jackets for T.S. Eliot at Faber, painted wall panels and murals in private homes, drew satirical portraits of society figures, and in 1933 created a poster for the London Underground. From 1937-1944, she was a features editor at Vogue, where she worked with photographer Lee Miller to document the lives of women in the British forces during the war. Blanch was married to Robert Alan Wimberley Bicknell from 1930 to 1941, then married to French novelist and diplomat Romain Gary from 1945 to 1962. In 1954, she published her best known work, The Wilder Shores of Love, and went on to write several other books, including cookbooks and a memoir, before the end of her life at age 102.

• Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0907871542
• ISBN 13: 9780907871545
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352