Improbable Journeys (Marlboro Travel). Robin Magowan

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Language: English
Page: 220
ISBN: 0810160927, 9780810160927

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For this volume, noted writer Magowan (Lilac Cigarette in a Wish Cathedral) has edited and updated earlier essays, some previously published in books and magazines, on his various travels. Included here are pieces on Iran, Greece, Zambia, Madagascar, Nepal, France, Soviet Central Asia, and more. The narrative begins with his trip to Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica in 1959. Magowan notes that not much has changed in these three nations for the general population: times were hard then, and times are hard now. The book ends with a blatantly nontravel piece on rock gardening in Connecticut. In between, the author summers on Lesbos, treks in Nepal, lives in France, and goes birding in Trinidad and New Guinea. Since he is a poet, Magowan at times mixes poetry into the text in the form of prose, especially in the later pieces. This strategy will make for either an interesting or a disjointed reading experience, depending on the reader's taste. Recommended for public libraries. Lee Arnold, Historical Soc. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Magowan fortuitously combines being a poet and writer. He brings a poet's heightened sense of observation to his descriptions of the people and places that cross his path. Magowan's career spans the era from McCarthyism (the 1950s variety), the narrowness and fear of which he tried to escape, to the present day. His first travels after college were to Cuba, Jamaica, and Haiti. As a compendium of some of his travel writings, this volume begins with these journeys, and continues with writings from Zambia, Madagascar, Nepal, Samarkand, Trinidad, and New Guinea, among other places. This volume gives us a portrait of the artist as a growing continuum--the early journeys resulting in more apprentice-style writing, while later trips, such as to Zambia, Madagascar, and Nepal, provide a glimpse of a sharp, magical observer (he sees himself as creating a prose version of Matisse in sub-Saharan Africa). Magowan concludes with a touching account of a garden he grew at home, culled from the seeds of distant mountain ranges. This is travel writing of a most exquisite nature. Allen Weakland
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