Pavilions of the Heart

Takes the reader on a journey to the settings where lovers have come together for a moment, a night or a lifetime. Chosen from those places in her travels where she has come upon a story that has fired the imagination, the author writes of Nelson and Lady Hamilton's affair conducted in a modest house near Wimbledon. http://www.dropshippers.co.za/

Lesley Blanch takes the reader on a uniquely romantic journey to the settings where lovers have come together for a moment, a night or a lifetime. Chosen carefully from those places in her travels where she has come upon a story that has fired the imagination, Blanch writes of Nelson and Lady Hamilton's scandalous affair conducted in a modest house near Wimbledon; Balzac's Parisian love-nest created for his Polish inamorata; the estate of Woronince in the steppes of southern Russia from where Liszt and Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein had to flee; and the house overlooking Lake Lucerne where Wagner and Cosima von Bulow came together. She conjures Sultan Murad's room in the Seraglio and tells the story of Aurelie Picard, whose pavilion of the heart was deep in the Saharan desert. Replete with drama, history and passion, "Pavilions of the Heart" is a seductive and lyrical glimpse at the places where love has reigned. http://www.dropshippers.co.za/

"'Pavilions of the Heart is the story of the dwellings where great loves have been lived. Lesley Blanch's sumptuous prose matches the intensity of the emotions she evokes.' Shusha Guppy 'From the Sahara to Saint Petersburg, the domesticity of passion has found the perfect historian in Lesley Blanch. This wonderful book bears out her remark 'The placing of a desk, or a bed, or the choice of a chintz may prove more revealing than a documented study.' Philip Mansel 'Lesley Blanch was one of the twentieth century's most exotic travel writers.' Caroline Baum, Spectator 'Lesley Blanch's style and life were testaments of a vanished world, and no less of an achievement than the twelve unusual books which connoisseurs hold in uncommon affection.' Alice Wooledge Salmon, The Guardian" http://www.dropshippers.co.za/

• Title: Pavilions of the Heart
• Subtitle: The Four Walls of Love
• Imprint name: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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