Peter Mayne (1908–1979)
Autor/a de A Year in Marrakesh
Obres de Peter Mayne
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1908
- Data de defunció
- 1979
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Llocs de residència
- Marrakesh, Morocco
Athens, Greece - Professions
- travel writer
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 9
- Membres
- 192
- Popularitat
- #113,797
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
- Llengües
- 2
He sets out the reasons for his way of life late in the book when meeting a familiar old acquaintance:
Overcivilised! And you are too! We’ve become caught up in our brilliant little world of progress and prophylaxis and can’t seem to see that the only way to make that tolerable would be to have an intellect and a life of it. But we haven’t got intellects, you and I! So what does that make us. Just sillies with insurance policies against life or death, and instincts bound up in insulating tape! And you are too!… (més)