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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning|Laurie Lee

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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I was nineteen years old, still soft at the edges, but with a confident belief in good fortune. I carried a small rolled-up tent, a violin in a blanket, a change of clothes, a tin of treacle biscuits, and some cheese. I was excited, vain-glorious, knowing I had far to go; but not, as yet, how far.
So begins the adventure of the young Laurie Lee, who walks from his tiny village in a remote corner of Gloucestershire, to London and into the twentieth century. Knowing one Spanish phrase, he decides to take the ferry to Spain. Unbeknownst to Lee, Spain in 1934 was on the verge of war, and, inexorably, he becomes entangled in the passionate, violent and bloody confusion that was the Spanish Civil War.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781567923926
  • ISBN-10: 1567923925
  • Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
  • Publish Date: April 2011
  • Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
  • Page Count: 216

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