Sea and Sardinia, D. H. Lawrence
Sea and Sardinia, D. H. Lawrence
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Sea and Sardinia

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Narrator: Phil Benson

Unabridged: 8 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/08/2021

Synopsis

Sea and Sardinia

 

by D.H.Lawrence

 

Narrated by Phil Benson

 

At the end of World War 1, D. H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda (‘the queen bee’), exiled themselves from England and set up home in Sicily. On the spur of the moment, Lawrence proposed a short trip to Sardinia. Setting off before dawn, they embarked on a whirlwind tour, by train to Palermo, ferry to Cagliari, and by train and bus to Terranova, returning to Rome by ferry. Back in Sicily Lawrence wrote Sea and Sardinia, one of the great travel journals of the twentieth century, in six weeks and entirely from memory. Alternately enthusiastic and grumpy, but always effusive, Lawrence’s journal sparkles with observations of the day-to-day detail of travel and characters encountered on the way

 

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About D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was a British writer of novels, poems, essays, short stories, and plays. Some of the books he wrote in the early 1900s became controversial because they contained direct descriptions of sexual relations. His best-known books are Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hal on May 11, 2018

After reading this well written, quotable, but uneventful travelogue by D.H. Lawrence, I find myself wondering why British people travel. Here is Lawrence, 60 years before Paul Theroux (who I thought held the tittle of "Crankiest Travel Writer"), setting out on a whirlwind tour of Sardinia, and comp......more

Goodreads review by Riccardo on January 08, 2012

I really really liked this book! As a Sardinian I enjoyed to read the (accurate) descriptions of the places I know, it's been very interesting to read how Lawrence portrayed the city where I live. In particular, I liked the way he described those aspects of ordinary life typical of a Sardinia which......more

Goodreads review by Jim on July 28, 2019

One doesn't think of him as such, but D.H. Lawrence is a natural-born travel writer. His Sea and Sardinia is a joy throughout. It starts slow as he works his way north to the interior of the island via third-class rail with his wife Frieda (whom he refers to as Queen Bee or, more frequently, q-b). T......more

Goodreads review by Vanessa on January 14, 2017

I am a great fan of Corsica, but I have never visited its close neighbour Sardinia, so it was with great interest that I lighted on D.H. Lawrence's account of his visit a few years after World War I. I was a bit disappointed. I wasn't expecting a conventional travelogue, but in fact Lawrence and Fri......more

Goodreads review by Belinda on September 03, 2022

3,5 stars- English paperback Found in a seconfhsnd bookstore some years ago. Looked like it never been read. Review follows later.......more

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