Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir
Written by Martha Gellhorn
Narrated by Rebecca Lowman and Harry Nangle
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Including a foreword by Bill Buford, Travels With Myself and Another rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman.
"Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.
Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.
Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1908. She dropped out of Bryn Mawr to pursue a career in journalism. Gellhorn spent time living in Paris; documented the Great Depression for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration; traveled with her future husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War; and journeyed to Western Europe to cover World War II. Her reporting career was distinguished and lengthy, as she also covered the Vietnam War and conflicts in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Panama. An author of both fiction and nonfiction, her works include the memoir Travels with Myself and Another and the novels Point of No Return, What Mad Pursuit, and The Trouble I’ve Seen. She died in 1998.
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Reviews for Travels with Myself and Another
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I have to admit I gave up on this book, although I had been greatly looking forward to it. The purpose, according to Gellhorn, is to recount "horror journeys" or the worst trips out of her many travels. But I don't get a clear enough sense of her point of view, and the anecdotes, written long after the fact, just lack richness for me. If one is interested in another side of Hemingway (the Another) maybe they would like this better.
Okay, I tried it again a few months later and enjoyed it. You have to look past her prejudices and accept that you won't learn a lot about the places she goes to, but you will get little glimpses of travel in a particular time period. Her travel to Soviet Russia was particularly interesting. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This collection of autobiographical essays is an unbeatable introduction to a writer of great talent, unfaltering conviction, and pitiless, razor-sharp wit.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I have always been fond of Martha Gellhorn, as the only one of Ernest Hemingway's wives to give back to him as good - or perhaps better - than he dished out. She didn't like the fact that, after her marriage to Hemingway, her name was always linked with his. After reading her work, which in my opinion is just as good as his, I can understand her frustration.This book of her travel writings does include Hemingway, but he is not mentioned by name. Instead he is called UC for Unwilling Companion for the fact that he had not wanted to accompany her to China just before America's entry into World War II.Besides her trip to China, this volume also covers a trip around the islands of the Caribbean, Africa, and the Soviet Union. She looks at all the places she visits with a gimlet eye and through the prism of her own liberal political values. Written in the 1970's, some of her comments - especially about the people in Africa - are problematic viewed through today's sensibilities. However, the reader needs to take the times into account and not be too picky as there is too much to enjoy in this book.