[Martha Gellhorn's Travels with Myself and Another] is written with a piquant wit and a fervent compassion for human folly and suffering.
Yet, whether by accident or choice, Travels with Myself and Another is a depressing travelogue of disasters and exasperating hardships somewhat savagely narrated in an almost continuous account of frustrations, crises and even horrors. With the termination of each trip the reader will find it difficult to feel any glowing sensation of vicarious satisfaction; contrariwise, he will more likely sigh, "Thank God it's over!" Perhaps our traveller is deliberately following her own advice that the only aspect of travel guaranteed to hold an audience is disaster….
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