Norman Lewis
Born
in Forty Hill (Enfield, Middlesex, London), The United Kingdom
June 28, 1908
Died
July 22, 2003
Genre
Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
49 editions
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1978
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A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
24 editions
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1951
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Voices of the Old Sea
30 editions
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1984
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The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War
14 editions
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2003
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The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed
26 editions
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published
1964
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In Sicily
11 editions
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published
2001
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Golden Earth: Travels in Burma
27 editions
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published
1952
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I Came, I Saw: An Autobiography
20 editions
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published
1985
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A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India
20 editions
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1991
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World, the World
14 editions
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1996
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“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.”
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“Once in a while, she said, the patients put on a theatrical show here, and beneath the stage a magnificent grand piano awaited the next production or display of the musical talents of an inmate. I congratulated her on this impressive piece of furniture and she smiled with pleasure. A moment later she was called away, and idly lifting the lid over the keyboard I was faced with the fact that the piano possessed no keys. It was a discovery which at that moment seemed of extreme symbolical significance.”
― A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India
― A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India
“There is a strong and fairly substantial theory in India as elsewhere that the gypsies of Europe originated in tribes driven out by Indian population displacements of the remote past.”
― A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India
― A Goddess in the Stones: Travels in India
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