The Best of Granta Travel
Publisher: Penguin Books / Granta
Published: August 1991
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780140142044
Subjects: Travel writing
First sentence: My old friend, the painter, poet and novelist, Hector Rojas Herazo-whom I hadn't seen for a long time-must have felt a tremor of compassion when he saw me in Madrid in a crush of photographers and journalists, for he came up to me and whispered: 'Remember that from time to time you should be nice to yourself.'