Ebook: Journey into the mind's eye: fragments of an autobiography

"Russia seized the imagination of Lesley Blanch when she was still a child. A mysterious traveler, swathed in Siberian furs, bearing Faberge eggs and icons as gifts, and full of Russian fairy tales and fairy tales of Russia, came to visit her parents and left her starry-eyed. Years later the same man returned to sweep her off her feet. Her love affair with the Traveler, as she calls him here, transformed her life and fueled an abiding fascination with Russia and Russian culture, one that would lead her to dingy apartments reeking of cabbage soup and piroshkis on the outskirts of Paris in the 1960s; to Siberia and beyond--journeying deep into the romantic terrain of the mind's eye. Part travel book, part love story, Lesley Blanch's memoir is pure intoxication"--;Introduction -- Journey Into the Mind's Eye : Part One: The Traveller -- Part Two: Gallantry Bower -- Part Three: The Borrowed Life -- Part Four: Bridge of Clay -- Part Five: The Journey Begun -- Part Six: The Borrowed Love -- Part Seven: The Journey Done.