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"This affectionate study of the Mexican temper is ""one of the most charming travel books ever written."" -- The Atlantic Monthly . Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. ""I had a great longing to move,"" she said, ""to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible."" And so she set out for Mexico--and, incidentally, to write what Bruce Chatwin called the best travel book of the twentieth century, ""a book of marvels, to be read again and again and again."""

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"This Affectionate Study Of The Mexican Temper Is ""One Of The Most Charming Travel Books Ever Written."""

This Affectionate Study Of The Mexican Temper Is One Of The Most Charming Travel Books Ever Written.

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Sybille Bedford was born in 1911, in Charlottenburg, Germany, and was brought up in Italy, England, and France. in 1953, she made her literary debut with A Visit to Don Otavio, and has since published eight other books - including Jigsaw, A Legacy, A Favourite of the Gods, and A Compass Error, as well as classic accounts of criminal trials and other courtroom cases, and an acclaimed biography of her mentor Aldous Huxley. She was vice president of English PEN and one of Britain's nine Companions of Literature. Ms. Bedford lived in London where she passed away in February 2006.

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