A Quiet Evening

This book contains the very best of Norman Lewis's travel writing.

If you already own The Changing Sky (Jonathan Cape, 1959) which was later expanded by Eland (in 1986 with the addition of another eight pieces) and given a fresh title, A View of the World, you will encounter stories you have already read. An additional source are the three collections published by Picador, To Run Across the Sea (1989) The Happy Ant Heap (1998), and A Voyage by Dhow (2001) which sometimes included, or re-worked material, that had appeared in other books. By happy agreement with the literary estate of Norman Lewis, all these five books have been withdrawn, so that all the best pieces are now in one book A Quiet Evening. Norman always acknowledged the editors who commissioned him to travel most of these pieces were originally written at the instigation of the New Yorker, The Sunday Times, the Observer and New Statesman.