As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (Penguin Modern Classics)

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A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the contents, with a few light marks to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout.

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee - Goodreads

As I left home that morning and walked away from the sleeping village, it never occurred to me that others had done this before me,” wrote Lee, who would spend that first night away sleeping in a field, waking to a cold and miserable rain. At times, his account is a little hard to believe - for instance, could he really have lived just on handfuls of dates for days on end, as he claims? For a year he tramped through a country in which the signs of impending civil war were clearly visible. Beautifully written book about Laurie Lee's experiences as a nineteen-year-old walking through Spain just before, and as, the Civil War started.If the power of Cider With Rosie derives from its dream of dwelling, the power of As I Walked Out derives from its dream of leaving. But I slept well enough in the tottering place, in spite of its audible darkness, the rustling in the walls, the squeaks and twitters, and the sighing of the mountain wind. The best of the 3 autobiographical books poet Laurie Lee wrote, this one concerns his walking tour of Spain just before the Spanish Civil War. Life on foot was the only option available to them, and in the two decades after 1918, plumes of smoke rose from copses and spinneys as the woods of England filled with these shaken-out casualties of war – men who slept out and lived rough, begging as they went and working where they could. I wish I could have believed his depiction of Spain on the brink of war with Generalissimo Franco’s fascists.

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Extra gets ready to welcome Midsummer with a special 60-minute adaptation of novelist Laurie Lee's celebrated journey from his Cotswold home in Slad to Spain in the mid-1930s. Lee reveled in the immensity of what is, by most any standards, a pretty small corner of a pretty small country. In the 1970s, a tramp known as “Toby” published a memoir of his years on the roads of the west of England – in it he described how, during the early 1930s, he would cross paths with the composer Edward Elgar, who regularly strolled the tracks around his home in Malvern. He stays as long as he takes joy from being in a place, or with certain people, but happily moves on once that is over. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.

I wasn’t far from home, but the familiar hills around me seemed newly expansive, full of possibilities and unexplored corners. He was penniless, young, and open to experience, and as a result, he had a wonderful time wandering from town to town playing his violin for small change, food and lodging. I would go on to the next book in his series (in which he takes part in the fighting) if only I could take it as real. The destroyers lay low on the horizon, slender as floating leaves, insubstantial as the air around them. A library book, or relatively cheap copy would be worth looking into if the summary sounds interesting.

An appreciation of Laurie Lee’s ‘As I Walked Out One

Laurie Lee’s poetic sensibilities are to the fore, and each page stunningly renders beautiful details of his day-to-day life: the landscape, the people he encounters, the smells, the food, the adventures, his feelings. I spent the rest of the day climbing a steep terraced valley, then camped for the night on a craggy hilltop. The writing here is “voluptuous” yet precise, and as such it is characteristic of Lee’s style, in which elaborate metaphors serve not as ornaments, but rather as the means of most closely evoking complex experience. never passing a bit of grass that looked good for a shakedown nor a cottage that seemed ripe for charity. urn:lcp:asiwalkedoutonem00leel:epub:2688f7a9-a038-4ca5-b5a8-6ad0bfcd42b4 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier asiwalkedoutonem00leel Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3b00412s Lccn 76086542 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.Our neighbours are all farmers, scratching a subsistence living from harvesting olives, wheat, sunflowers, raising pigs and horses and puppies, and labouring in the fields, they are generous with their smiles and their vegetables. A professional tramp who did a yearly circuit around England taught him some of the tricks of survival on the road. Leaving behind the village he immortalised in Cider With Rosie, 19-year-old Laurie sets out on the open road with a vague idea of reaching London and the American girlfriend who awaits him there.

As I walked out one midsummer morning : Lee, Laurie : Free

I slept out in the great pine forests that cloak the upper Guadarrama, and I experienced there an elation I am unlikely to forget, as did Lee: “Gulping the fine dry air and sniffing the pitch-pine mountain, I was perhaps never so alive and so alone again.There was an instance where Lee describes an incident when a drunken father attempts to rape his daughter: Lee steps in to protect him from the mother! I look back on my life and consider that I was roughing it when I would travel internationally without an ATM or credit card so when you ran out of money, you were out of freaking money.