Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the
English language. Born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in 1914, he was
educated at Slad village school and Stroud Central School. At the
age of nineteen he walked to London and then travelled on foot
through Spain, where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil
War. He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees, as he recounted in
A Moment of War.
Laurie Lee published four collections of poems- The Sun My Monument
(1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), My Many-Coated Man (1955) and
Pocket Poets (1960). His other works include The Voyage of Magellan
(1948), The Firstborn (1964), I Can't Stay Long (1975), and Two
Women (1983). He also wrote three bestselling volumes of
autobiography- Cider with Rosie (1959), which has sold over six
million copies worldwide, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
(1969) and A Moment of War (1991).
PRAISE FOR DOWN IN THE VALLEY: It is a fine thing to revisit this
writer's landscape and hear his amiable voice in it again.
*Times Literary Supplement*
A beautiful illustration of how, in some way, we are all indelibly
influenced by the landscape of our childhood.
*Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path*
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