Numerous manuscripts, correspondence, ephemera, memorabilia, and artifactual materials, and a host of other sources are available. Of particular interest are several of Bowles's notebooks which he compiled during his travels. Visually appealing are hundreds of photographs, including many of his own, which are housed among his papers. This is the first French translation of the text Bowles wrote to accompany this collection of African photographs. All Parrots Speak.
All Parrots Speak.
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue . Illustrated with drawings by Ronald Searle. Bowles's notebook, kept during several months of his 1966 visit to Bangkok, is filled with descriptive observations, journal-like accounts of encounters and adventures, historical and cultural notes, drafts of letters, scenes from his play The Garden , and notes about temple music he recorded on the trip. In 1966, Bowles contracted with Little Brown to write a book about Bangkok for the publisher's projected series of books on cities. Bowles recounts his life on the island of Taprobane, off the south coast of Sri Lanka.