by Negley Farson
Negley Farson was the son of an American Civil War General, and was born in 1890. After the First World War he took a post as the London correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. Farson was an interesting guy: a well known journalist, drinker and hell-raiser and the most extraordinary writer, who could produce the most incandescent prose. Here is another example of cruising as literature. In Flame, a 26 ft., lapstrake yawl, and accompanied by his wife, he takes us to Eastern Europe a few years before the outbreak of the Second World War, and in many of the areas he visits the chilling precursors of fascism are already beginning to show their snake-like heads. The writing, as is usual with Farson, is very fine and the history of the region is presented in such a way as to bring understanding to, not only the events of the Second World War, but even more importantly, the events of the last few years in Boznia/Herzogovina and the neighbor states.
Contents: Double Dutch, The Departure, Up the Lek, A Tow up the Rhine, Checkmate in Bavaira, Climbing into Bavaria, In the Ludwig's Canal, The Frankischer Jura, Shooting the Danube, No Man's River--From Vienna to Budapest, A Day in Hungary, Admiral Horthy, Governor of the Kingdom of Hungary, The Inn on the Puszta, Cowboys of Hungary, Hungary's State Farms, The Hunting Owl and a Royal Shoot, Life on the Flame, From Hungary to Jugo-Slavia, The Terrible Balkans, A Canoeist's Paradise--Mutiny on the Flame, The Peasant Capital--Exiles in Serbia, Food, Music--Dirte--The Women of Progar, A Stronghold of Allah, Cross and Crescent in Bosnia, The Lost World of Herzogovina--The Return of the Native, Among Mountains and Clouds, Entering Rumania St. Sorris on the Danumbe, Slivowitz--A Priest of the Banat, Good Father Bufanu, Islands of the People--Flame Rides the Rapids, In the Roll of High Seas--Three Danube Nights, Freeze-out with the Guard, We Dine with the Iskarska--Bulgarian Villages, A Dance in Bulgaria, Land of Itching Palm--Breakfast in Bucharest, In the Dobrudja--Where Life is Cheap, Turks on the Danube, The Rumanian Swamps, Three Merry Brigands, Into Forbidden Land, I Sleep on the Stove, Salt Water Again,
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