Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands..., Paul Bowles
Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands..., Paul Bowles
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Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue

Author: Paul Bowles

Narrator: Raphael Corkhill, Mike Ortego, Tom Zahner

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/13/2022

Synopsis

An engaging collection of travel essays by the author of The Sheltering SkyTheir Heads are Green, Their Hands are Blue deals largely with places in the world that few Westerners have ever heard of, much less seen—places as yet unencumbered by the trappings, luxuries, and corruptions of modern civilization. Bowles is a sympathetic and discerning observer of these alien cultures, and his eyes and ears are especially alert both to what is bizarre and what is wise in the civilizations in which he settles.Above all, Bowles is a superb and observant traveler—a born wanderer who finds pleasure in the inaccessible and who cheerfully endures the concomitant hardships with resourcefulness, insight, and humor.

About Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles was born in 1910 and studied music with composer Aaron Copland before moving to Tangier, Morocco. A devastatingly imaginative observer of the West's encounter with the East, he is the author of four highly acclaimed novels: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, The Spider's House, and Up Above the World. In addition to being one of the most powerful postwar American novelists, Bowles was an acclaimed composer, a travel writer, a poet, a translator, and a short story writer. He died in Morocco in 1999.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tosh

I have a firm belief that if I had Paul Bowles as a travel guide in North Africa or Central America - I will die! Can you imagine getting in a cab with him? Yikes! But while you are taking your bath and reading these fantastic travel essays - then you are perfectly safe. Bowles is superb.......more

Goodreads review by Greg

The sky features as a reference point in Paul Bowles writing, as in the stories in Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue. Includes the story 'Baptism of Solitude', "Immediately when you arrive in the Sahara, for the first or the tenth time, you notice the stillness". . . ."Then there is the......more

Goodreads review by Jay

If you can ignore the Orientalist tropes, this is a collection of mildly diverting accounts of Bowles's travels around North Africa and Asia. Fairly flat descriptions with the odd surprise here and there.......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue (1963) is a collection of essays about travel by Paul Bowles. Bowles has a gift for telling observations about travel in places that weren't really meant for tourists, as well as exposing interesting aspects of the people who live in the obscure places......more

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