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The return of Fitzroy Maclean
Mar. 4th, 2006 09:34 pmSince ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
helenraven expressed the desire, and then deferred her project, to visit Alma Ata, it seemed appropriate to give her a copy of Fitzroy Maclean's Back to Bokhara, which describes a journey in much that part of what was then Soviet Central Asia. Maclean was revisiting, in the late 1950s, a region where he had made his way some twenty years earlier, and clearly enjoyed the insistence of the Soviet authorities that he would be admitted only as a tourist travelling de luxe. Then of course I had to re-read my own, very battered copy: had I given her something totally unreadable, was it as vivid and entertaining as I remembered?
( Here is Fitzroy Maclean's account of his arrival in Samarkand: )
Yup, that still works for me.
helenraven expressed the desire, and then deferred her project, to visit Alma Ata, it seemed appropriate to give her a copy of Fitzroy Maclean's Back to Bokhara, which describes a journey in much that part of what was then Soviet Central Asia. Maclean was revisiting, in the late 1950s, a region where he had made his way some twenty years earlier, and clearly enjoyed the insistence of the Soviet authorities that he would be admitted only as a tourist travelling de luxe. Then of course I had to re-read my own, very battered copy: had I given her something totally unreadable, was it as vivid and entertaining as I remembered?( Here is Fitzroy Maclean's account of his arrival in Samarkand: )
Yup, that still works for me.
