num_pages: 370
description: Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. I had a great longing to move, she said, to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible. And so she set out for Mexico--and, incidentally, to write what Bruce Chatwin called the best travel book of the twentieth century, a book of marvels, to be read again and again and again.
language: English
title: A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico
titlecomplete: A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico
genres: Adventure, 20th Century, Travel, Travelogue, Classics, British Literature, Nonfiction, Autobiography, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 458
publisher: Counterpoint