Ecuador

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Northwestern University Press, 2001 - Travel - 132 pages
Poet Henri Michaux boarded a ship for Ecuador in 1927 as "a man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal." The result is a work of pointed observation and sensual, even hallucinogenic, poetry and prose.
 

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Section 1
v
Section 2
13
Section 3
35
Section 4
52
Section 5
64
Section 6
123
Section 7
125
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Ecuador: a Travel Journal
Henri Michaux
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About the author (2001)

Henri Michaux was born into a wealthy Belgian family in 1899. Michaux disappointed his parents by dropping out of medical school to become a sailor. He sailed with the merchant marine throughout Asia and South America and eventually settled in Paris, where his poetry and later his paintings came to be widely admired. Michaux's works include Emergences-Résuregences, Darkness Moves: An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984, and A Barbarian in Asia. He died in 1984 in Paris.

Bibliographic information

TitleEcuador
Marlboro travel
AuthorHenri Michaux
Translated byRobin Magowan
ContributorRobin Magowan
Editionreprint
PublisherNorthwestern University Press, 2001
ISBN0810160919, 9780810160910
Length132 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Travel / Reference
Travel / South America / Ecuador & Galapagos Islands
Travel / South America / General
  
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