Mike Robbins's Blog - Posts Tagged "travel"

I am giving away six copies of The Nine Horizons: Travels in Sundry Places - enter for a chance to win; ends Saturday night (May 23).

https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/67216be...

Another book giveaway, global this time; please do enter for a chance to win between now and June 23. One reviewer wrote of The Nine Horizons: Travels in Sundry Places:

"I've never really read a travel memoir quite like this one. Mike Robbins describes the locations of the character's travels in a way that not only paints a vivid picture, but like a beautiful art film he also gives it a lighting and temperature that tone his mood and awe."

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

In 1943 Ève Curie's Journey Among Warriors nearly won a Pulitzer. It is one of the best pieces of reportage to come out of the Second World War, and includes vivid descriptions of the Russian Front, the Burma retreat, the fighting in the Western Desert, and wartime China. She met Nehru, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, Chou En-Lai, Wavell, Auchinleck and countless others. But the book has vanished; forgotten, and never reprinted. Why? The astonishing journey of Ève Curie - concert pianist, journalist, humanitarian and diplomat.

http://mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com/20...

Biking the Americas - with engine, and without. Two great travel books

http://mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com/20...

I never contact people offering books for review. To do so is at best bad manners; at worst it is spamming. In any case, I interact with people on this site as a fellow-reader at least as much as a writer, and I'd like to keep it that way.

But as I writer, I do need readers' reviews. I will be pleased to send e-copies to anyone genuinely interested in doing an honest review of one or more of these books. If you get one and then decide not to review it, that's also fine. If you do upload a review to Amazon, Goodreads or any other site or retailer, that will be great. Three are fiction, two travel and one is a polemic.

Send me a message via Goodreads, or my Facebook author page at https://www.facebook.com/mikerobbinsNYC. State which file format you'd like (PDF, EPUB or MOBI).

These are the titles:

The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán






Dog!: You'll Never Look At Your Dog the Same Way Again. Also available in Spanish as ¡Perro!






The Nine Horizons: Travels in Sundry Places






Three Seasons: Three Stories of England in the Eighties






Even the Dead Are Coming






Such Little Accident: British Democracy and Its Enemies





Thank you, everyone; and whatever you are reading right now, I hope that you are enjoying it.

Best
Mike

Of all the cities in the world, I had to choose New York City in which to ride out this pandemic. I cannot say I am not worried, but this city will survive, as it has before; and I feel oddly privileged to be here.

Whatever happens, I have had an extraordinary life. My work has taken me to the Amazonian rainforest, the steppes of Central Asia, the ancient souk (now partly destroyed) of Aleppo and the plains of Sudan. I've watched the sun rise on the snows of Kanchenjunga, and seen great herds of yak in the high Himalayas. In 2014 I wrote some of it down in The Nine Horizons: Travels in Sundry Places.

Like all writers, I would like it to be read. So I have made it a free download, and will keep it that way for some days. There is a choice of formats (link below).

I will get through this, as will most of us, but if by mischance I don't, it would be nice to think that some of you have read this, and travelled with me.

https://claims.prolificworks.com/free...