NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1979. First edition. 283pp. Blue paper over boards, red quarter-cloth. Mild sunning to edges of boards, cloth softened at base of spine. Near fine in a very good unclipped jacket with wear at spine ends and tips, 1-inch closed tear at base of rear flap hinge.
A selection of travel writings from a "worldwide range of her favorite hardship trips" (jacket flap); the first autobiographical book by celebrated author American journalist and novelist Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), notable particularly for her extensive war correspondence, and from 1940-1945 as the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.
