Description
FIRST EDITION printed on laid paper.
AUTOGRAPH SIGNED LETTER:
"For Ahmed and Daniella Safri
with compliments
from a former regular
of El Oued.
Nicolas Bouvier 1982".
This account of a nine-month journey to Ceylon, which Bouvier visited from March to November 1955, took the author almost three decades to complete. It was published in 1982 and awarded the Prix des Critiques.