Philip Ziegler

Lesley Blanch: a true original on the wilder shores of exoticism

Lesley Blanch was incapable of writing a bad or boring sentence, says Philip Ziegler, reviewing On the Wilder Shores of Love

Credit: Sveeva VIGEVENO/GAMMA 
issue 28 March 2015
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  • Lesley Blanch: On the Wilder Shores of Love

    edited by Georgia de Chamberet

    Virago, pp. 464

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