Arabesques
Subtitle: a tale of double lives
By: Robert Dessaix
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780330425162; 9780330426145
Subjects: Travel; Anecdotes; Travelers; Travel in literature; Description and travel; Biography
Description: On a magic carpet ride from Lisbon to the edge of the Sahara, from Paris to the south of France and Algiers, Robert takes us to the places where the Nobel Prize-winning author, in ways still scandalous to modern sensibilities, lived out his unconventional ideas about love, marriage, sexuality and religion. Featuring meditations and conversations with fellow-travellers on such diverse subjects as why we travel, growing old, illicit passions, and the essence of Protestantism, Arabesques is Robert Dessaix and travel memoir at their finest.