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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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