Celia Darlington Wakefield

  Cousin Celia Darlington Wakefield (Peter Mattson-Edwin Mattson-Rebecca Darlington) has published another delightful travel memoir, Matisse and the Bathwater.  This one takes the reader around the globe from student days in Paris of the 1930s to the imperial cities of Morocco, from many years as a resident of Mexico to the drama of working as a civilian employee for the Navy at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.  Like her illustrious 19th century cousin, travel writer, poet, and novelist Bayard Taylor, Celia is intrepid in her travels and recounts her adventures with a sharp ear and eye for the exotic and humorous in the human condition.  Most of her stories have appeared previously in magazines such as Punch, The Atlantic, and the Saturday Review Matisse and the Bathwater brings them all together under one cover.  Celia's other books include High Cities of the Andes; (currently out-of-print); Searching for Isabel Godin, the tragic story of the first woman to go down the Amazon in 1769; and Under the Tabachin Tree, recounting Celia's 20 years of living in Mexico. 



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