Folio Society - A Traveller's Christmas - Sue Bradbury - 2006 1st ed

A Traveller’s Christmas. Introduced by Sue Bradbury. 15 colour illustrations by Paul Slater. Bound in red cloth with a colour printed white paper cover. Blue slipcase. 234pp. 23.5x16.5cm.

A Traveller’s Christmas, ‘an anthology’. Folio Society compilation of accounts of Christmas spent abroad. From a whole range of authors: from artists, explorers and diplomats; from locations spanning the entire planet. With contributions by Tolstoy; Washington Irving; Noel Coward; Shelley; Paul Theroux; Richard Burton; Dostoevsky; Alice B Toklas; Rommel; Solzhenitsyn – and many others. Sections include: Home and Away; Christmas at Sea; In Foreign Lands; Seasonal Feasts and Entertainments; The Back of Beyond; In Time of War and Other Perils.

With retro style full colour illustrations by Paul Slater. Introduced and edited by Sue Bradbury.

Book is in excellent condition. Some light markings to slipcover.