Seeing Things
John Bayley, 18 July 1996
Omnibus: ‘A Dragon Apparent’, ‘Golden Earth’, ‘A Goddess in the Stones’
by Norman Lewis.
Picador, 834 pp., £9.99, January 1996,0 330 33780 7 Show More
by Norman Lewis.
Picador, 834 pp., £9.99, January 1996,
“... round their penises. He looks like a sales rep, come to show them a new line in tupperware. But Norman Lewis has always maintained a low profile when it comes to exploring. His admirable series of travel books and travel novels, informative, neatly written, and full of a dry detached humour, make Lawrence of Arabia or Bruce Chatwin, even Wilfred ... ”