As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Penguin Modern Classics)
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Penguin Modern Classics) by Laurie Lee
English | June 26th, 2014 | ASIN: B00KSQBA9Q, ISBN: 0140033181 | 208 pages | EPUB | 0.69 MB
English | June 26th, 2014 | ASIN: B00KSQBA9Q, ISBN: 0140033181 | 208 pages | EPUB | 0.69 MB
'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world'
Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for 'Will you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . .
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