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Visit To Don Otavio (Paperback)

by Sybille Bedford (Author)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A VISIT TO DON OTAVIO, Dec 23 2005
By James W. Derry (Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada) - See all my reviews
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Over fifty years ago Sybille Bedford boarded a train in New York with a female companion and traveled to Mexico. These were the days before mass tourism, of a world of formal letters of introduction and when one spent weeks visiting a foreign place, instead of an afternoon. This extraordinary travel book reads as fresh and as relevant as when it was published in 1953. Today Bill Bryson or Jonathan Raban or Colin Thubron are considered the originators of modern travel writing. I think not; Ms Bedford had a big jump on them.
Although she describes a world in many ways long gone, (and a pity for that), Ms Bedford's Mexico comes very much to life. Here she is on waking up the in the capital: "The first impact of Mexico City is physical, immensely physical. There is no taking refuge in one more insulating shell, no use sitting in the hotel bedroom fumbling with guide books: it is here, one is in it."
Two ladies travelling about in second class buses in this country is written with humour, sharp observation, and intelligence. Although the central portion of this book is set on the estate of Don Otavio on Lake Chapala, and we see how the "ruined" upper classes lived, Ms Bedford examines the life of the peasant and the servant, and government. Her brief, witty descriptions of Mexican history are both entertaining and highly useful in understanding this complex country.
Sybille Bedord is still alive, and at the age of 94, she published her memoirs this year (Quicksands). She is a facinating woman in her own right, but read this book to learn how life in Mexico was, and still is. And how we do not spend enough time to examine the world around us.
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