<p>Chantemesle is a lyrical evocation of growing up on the banks of the Seine. In this minutely observed landscape, where even the wind is a character in its own right, we meet blind Battouflet, the singing hermit of the hillside, solemn Clotilde, who lives in a château in the heart of the forest and a dessicated and disturbing spinster, Mlle. Firman. Robin Fedden writes with preternatural clarity, taking the reader with him into a long-forgotten, yet echoingly familiar world. When Fedden finds himself expelled from this realm by his emerging sexuality, he leaves us reeling with nostalgia for that timeless sense of the present that is the magic of childhood.</p>

Chantemesle

Robin Fedden

George Braziller

<p>Robin Fedden's journeys and climbs in the Pyrenees with his companions in the late 1950s evoke the wonder and magnetism of mountains. Our wanderings had something of the idyllic and pastoral. With our contented camps set in the borderland between adundance below and bareness above, we knew no reason to shift them but such as we ourselves curiosity for a fresh valley, or the impulsion towards a peak whose very shape was unknown to us.</p>

The Enchanted Mountains: A Quest in the Pyrenees (John Murray Travel Classics)

Travel

Travel Writing

John Murray

Narrates the experiences and reactions of a respectable bank functionary after his abrupt arrest on an undisclosed charge

Egypt

IMMEL Publishing

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Chantemesle

The Enchanted Mountains: A Quest in the Pyrenees (John Murray Travel Classics)

Egypt