Literary Guy
Ian Jack, 19 June 1986
“... a desk-bound writer was the most irresistible of siren calls’. Before he leaves his desk at the London base-camp, he packs his luggage with a few thoughts, the philosophical equivalent of Kendal mint cake, which will see him through the trip. A quotation from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry prefaces the text. ‘The notion of looking at life has always been ... ”