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Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorn and in the grips of a passionate obsession. The search to recapture the…
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Journey into the Mind's Eye is a dreamy memoir that's quite unlike anything else I've read. Lesley Blanch weaves together her lifelong obsession with Russia - sparked by a mysterious figure who came to stay with her family when she was a child. She calls him 'The Traveller' and he filled her childhood with tales of the exotic East - encouraging her own eventual travels there. It's part memoir, part travelogue, part love letter to a Russia that may seems more imagined than real. Blanch's prose is romantic and evocative, and she captures that peculiar longing we sometimes feel for…
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