If Oscar Wilde was correct that "history is gossip," then Bassett serves up a delicious cocktail of the very best kind-polite, learned, and insightful, merely leavened with touches of history and geopolitics, mak ...
Kevin J. McNamara, Kirk Centre
With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis
Economist
A charming, imaginative and elegantly written memoir of his adventures in central Europe
Victor Sebestyen, Evening Standard
If Oscar Wilde was correct that "history is gossip," then Bassett serves up a delicious cocktail of the very best kind-polite, learned, and insightful, merely leavened with touches of history and geopolitics, mak ...
Kevin J. McNamara, Kirk Centre
With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis
Economist
A charming, imaginative and elegantly written memoir of his adventures in central Europe
Victor Sebestyen, Evening Standard
If Oscar Wilde was correct that "history is gossip," then Bassett serves up a delicious cocktail of the very best kind-polite, learned, and insightful, merely leavened with touches of history and geopolitics, mak ...
Kevin J. McNamara, Kirk Centre
With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis
Economist
A charming, imaginative and elegantly written memoir of his adventures in central Europe