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The fifth book, part memoir, part travel journal, by Alan Ross. It is based on his long acquaintance with the islands in the Gulf of Naples. Demobilised from the Navy, the war still fresh, Ross made a series of journeys in 1948 on foot all over Ischia, producing a kind of anatomy. He spent summers there in the 1950s and 1960s, a period when Moravia, Koestler, Auden and William Walton among others, made Maria's Bar in Forio a centre of gossip. More recently he returned: Capri in winter, Ischia at the end of the summer, the Aeolian islands in spring. This book, as well as being a description of the islands themselves, recalls some of those who brought fame by their presence - Gorky, Lenin, and Bunin; Pablo Neruda and Walter Benjamin; Rilke, Malaparte and Alex Munthe; D.H. Lawrence, Norman Douglas, and Compton Mackenzie. Naples, too, is an important part of Ross's experience and he records his pleasure in recalling it through the writings of Lewis and Burns.
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Alan Ross was a poet and writer and the editor of the London Magazine from 1961 until his death in February 2001. His own works include four poetry collections, three travel books, and two volumes of autobiography.
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"A wonderfully civilised guide who bears his scholarship and his own memories lightly . . ." -- Patrick Skene Catling, The Irish Times
"Ross re-creates a web of old-fashioned charm, mixing reminiscence, literary allusion, digression, straightforward travel diary and belle-lettrism . . ." -- Jan Dalley, Financial Times
"Ross recreates a web of old-fashioned charm, mixing reminiscence, literary allusion, digression, straightforward travel diary and belle-lettrism . . . It all works with ease and elegance . . .an unusually enjoyable, learned and good-natured book"
--Jan Dalley, Financial Times
"A wonderfully civilised guide who bears his scholarship and his own memories lightly. . . reading Reflections on Blue Water is a winter holiday"
--Patrick Skene Catling, Irish Times
-- Review
"Ross re-creates a web of old-fashioned charm, mixing reminiscence, literary allusion, digression, straightforward travel diary and belle-lettrism . . ." -- Jan Dalley, Financial Times
"Ross recreates a web of old-fashioned charm, mixing reminiscence, literary allusion, digression, straightforward travel diary and belle-lettrism . . . It all works with ease and elegance . . .an unusually enjoyable, learned and good-natured book"
--Jan Dalley, Financial Times
"A wonderfully civilised guide who bears his scholarship and his own memories lightly. . . reading Reflections on Blue Water is a winter holiday"
--Patrick Skene Catling, Irish Times
-- Review
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- PublisherHarvill Pr
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1860466915
- ISBN 13 9781860466915
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
- IllustratorRye Jane
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