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Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic.

"Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.

Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.

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"Travels With Myself and Another is [Martha Gellhorn's] most intimate book and not well-enough known. As Bill Buford wrote in his foreword to a 2001 reissue of it, in the complexity of her observations 'she prefigures the works of people like Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux and Jonathan Raban and the renaissance of first-person adventure writing.'" --Dwight Garner, The New  York Times

"Whenever I meet someone who has not yet discovered this book, I attempt to describe why it's so marvellous...delicious reading." --Stephanie Nolan, The Globe and Mail

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Martha Gellhorn published five novels and seven prize-winning collections of her explosive journalism. Her career spanned several decades: She covered the 1937–38 war in Spain, sent dispatches from the front in World War II and followed the trail of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, and reported on the conflicts in Vietnam in 1966 and in Israel in 1967. Gellhorn died in 1998 at the age of eighty-nine.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ TarcherPerigee; 1st edition (May 7, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1585420905
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1585420902
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.49 x 0.83 x 8.23 inches
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Lewis F. Murphy
5.0 out of 5 stars What a Woman and What Trips of Misery and Wonder
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2022
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Martha Gellhorn leaves no prisoners. Honest, opinionated, fearless, entitled, impulsive, deeply caring and unrepentant match for Hemingway. Her stories of horror trips and how she lived her life were captivating. Whenever my 21st Century sensibilities started to raise red flags I read on an gained a deeper understanding. My Mother was an independent woman a few years younger than Gellhorn who had much the same spirit and strength. Really interesting stories written with great verve.
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Culturally curious
4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating tales marvelously told
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2013
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These cover only a small part of her travels in the world; these are more personal rather than strictly journalistic. You don't have to know it was her then-husband, Ernest Hemingway, who is her companion in the trip to China, but it lets you picture things more vividly. As though it isn't vivid enough! The accounts of her travels to and in China during the time of the great civil war there, of Russia in one of its many times of great suppression, and of the Caribbean as she went from island to island are not to be missed. The places she went and persons she met are fascinating and telling. Her section on Africa was the weakest, but still worth reading,I say as one who lived many years on that continent. I think she was too old and ill-prepared when she went there and became too sick a good deal of the time and made some careless statements which, if generalized from the specific cases at hand, give the erroneous impression of racist feelings on her part, which in fact she did not hold, as I was relieved to discover as I read on. What comes across throughout the book is that in each place she visits, she is acutely aware and objects to the injustices that are rampant. But her main achievement is to make them so real you feel you have been there with her and experienced some real adventure.
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Patricia A. Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful memoir by a remarkable woman
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2021
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This book by Martha Gellhorn is a great read, especially for those interested in women who have faced and at least seriously dented if not broken the glass ceiling. Martha was an important journalist and a breakthrough female war correspondent, against all odds, staring in the 1930s with the Spanish Civil War. She was also the only one of Ernest Hemingway's four wives who left him because she wanted to continue her own professional career.
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MickM
5.0 out of 5 stars Marvelous, Witty, Wonderful Writing
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2018
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If you appreciate good writing, I mean incisive, witty, direct writing, you will love this book. She had a voice and used it with more skill than anyone I have read in quite awhile. The book is a series of travel logs in China, Africa, the Caribbean , and Moscow. It's funny, enlightening, and insightful, not only about the places but human nature. She's honest about herself, or at least is skillful enough to sound like it, and about the people she encounters. Buy it, read it. Laugh a little.
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jw
3.0 out of 5 stars Adventure
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2013
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my book club read this -- we all agreed we wouldn't have liked her personally, but she led an interesting life. in this book she refers constantly to how much she loves to travel, but in her accounts of four travel experiences she seems to complain unceasingly about "boredom, dirt, being sick" so it's hard to see why she "loves to travel". she has physical courage and takes amazing risks. her African trip was the most interesting to me --- it's good read (but you won't like her!)
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Karen Marie Hart
5.0 out of 5 stars Soul Mates
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2013
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Martha Gellhorn doesn't use Ernest Hemingway's name when she is writing about travels she made with him, but by the time I finished my last adventure with her, I realized he'd been in the entire book, on every one of her journeys, and not because of her writing style. It is very different than his. It was the way she wrote of him, when she did, which was rare, but it was so powerful, I could actually feel the touch of one soul mate to another. Gellhorn is captivating, bold, reckless, romantic, and deeply, powerfully, and hypnotically inspired to help the world. And, she writes it all so perfectly. I will read this book again and again.
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John H. Evans
4.0 out of 5 stars Not great literature but an interesting story
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2013
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This book is in many ways both tedious and haphazardly written. And it is wonderful and marvelous and educational and simply fabulous. Martha Gellhorn was one of the most interesting women of the 20th century. While she was undoubtedly the most experienced female war correspondent of the century, this book is less about her war travels than her personal travels. Best known, of course, as the wife of Ernest Hemingway during the WWII years, Gellhorn was every bit a woman in her own right as she demonstrates by refusing to mention Hemingway by name (Papa H is the 'another.'). The book focuses mainly on four 'horror' trips (as she calls them). First China with H in the early war years; then the pre-development Caribbean, also early in the war. A late 60s private trans-Africa trip (alone!). Lastly a horrid week in Moscow to visit an elderly writer. Gellhorn paints a vivid and wretched picture of Communist Moscow and laughingly quotes, "Two cheers for capitalism."

Also, if you haven't seen the movie "Hemingway & Gellhorn," it is a really good movie.
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Sandra Cochran
5.0 out of 5 stars Gellhorn is eminently readable and a joy
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2021
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I love the way she writes…passionate and droll, irreverent and full of dismay, all the emotions on display yet survivable, an enjoyable journey with words her vehicle.
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Thomas O Bird
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2023
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Robert M
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good!
Reviewed in Spain on July 9, 2020
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Every single non fiction book of Martha Gellhorn is excellent, as she was one of the best reporters (of war or otherwise, female or otherwise) of the XX Century. Her writing on wars or politics has been very seldom surpassed. I must mention "The Face of War" as her best, with all the rest of her reporting and non-fiction books at very close distance.
In this one book "Travels with myself and another", Gellhorn chooses several pieces on travelling to the four corners of the world along 40 years. The style is, as always in Gelhorn, superb, dry, sober, illuminating. The final effect is outstanding.
And in every piece, it is remarkable how Gellhorn stays away from retorting from the platitudes of a postcard - as in the excellent description of Africa: "I was expecting Out of Africa and got instead Heart of Darkness". Impossible to say more with less words. Africa is, to Gellhorn's eyes, all bad roads, killer mosquitoes and dictators serving European and American interests, while ignoring their fellow citizens welfare. It is what she sees. Her piece on China is equally an eye opener. Travelling there with the "unwilling companion" (obviously her then husband Hemingway) she expects gardens and bamboo trees and finds instead medieval latrines.
The best bit, to these eyes, is that on her visit to Russia. Impossible to describe better the dull, bored life of the late Communism.
All in all, a wonderful book of an excellent writer. The reason I didn't give the fifth star is that the pieces are rather unbalanced, with Africa taking a third of the book, and some other ones just a few pages. Also, and more importantly, I do believe (after I have read everything Gellhorn has published) that this book was somehow rushed, it could do with a thorough review and correction. Some parts are repetitive (very strange in Gellhorn).
But then again, it is priceless and an excellent document of late and post colonialism and its effects.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Per conoscere Martha Gellhorn
Reviewed in Italy on December 10, 2019
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Memoir intenso per conoscere ancor più da vicino la vita da reporter di Martha Gellhorn, un mito del giornalismo internazionale.
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Murrie
5.0 out of 5 stars No Sissy, She
Reviewed in Canada on November 18, 2017
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If you want to know how journalism of the raw and rough kind works, that of The Day, this is the book. For any reporter to go where few have gone, to get a story is one thing but to do it as a woman in the times that Gellhorn, did it, caps most coverage tales. She was one of those rare females who prefer the low road in getting the job done. Sure, this highly attractive, spirited woman was alongside Hemingway. when he happened to be present, but her fearless drive to go where few or no women ventured before, makes for an exciting delve into the art of journalistic writing. It's or was, no job for a sissy.
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Naomi McKean
1.0 out of 5 stars Racist.
Reviewed in Australia on September 11, 2021
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A sickening insight into colonialist behaviour and attitudes in Africa, I stopped reading it. A beautiful writer but unfortunately this book does not stand the test of time and I feel tainted for even having given her disgusting comments audience.
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