Hints and tips:
...Peter Matthiessen never caught a glimpse of a longed-for big cat while writing The Snow Leopard. The possibility of failure was built into each journey’s romance....
...There is a false and snobbish notion that the high watermark of travel writing occurred in the 1930s, with the work of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Peter Fleming, Robert Byron, Freya Stark and Rebecca West...
...with a stable of literary thoroughbreds, including Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides and Denis Johnson; he helped draw the English-speaking world’s attention to the genius of the late Chilean author Robert...
...Max Matthiessen, the group’s asset management subsidiary, is seen as particularly attractive....
...(A BBC4 documentary on Ian Hamilton makes Hornby buy Hamilton’s biography of Robert Lowell, which makes him buy Lowell’s Collected Poems etc.)...
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