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Journey to Java
Harold Nicolson's diary of his first visit to the far East in 1957, when, as he approached the age of 70, he cruised to Java and back aboard the liner Willem Ruys of the Rotterdam Lloyd. Accompanied by his wife, Vita Sackville-West, he records details of routine and life aboard ship; his interaction with the crew and his fellow passengers; the happenings at home (revealed
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Hardcover, Travel Book Club, 254 pages
Published
1957
by Constable & Co. Ltd.
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This book is one of those magical things that falls into your path & you go into it having no idea how it will change your life. I bought this book second-hand because I adore the writing of Vita Sackville-West, the author's wife. This book is from a defunct British series called The Travel Book Club (121 Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2). Harold Nicolson - diplomat, essayist, diarist, & politician - wrote this book in the mid-1950s as the story of his adventures aboard a cruise liner f
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Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG was an English diplomat, author, diarist and politician. He was the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West, their unusual relationship being described in their son's book, Portrait of a Marriage.
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