Norman Lewis

A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Travelling through Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the twilight of the French colonial regime, Norman Lewis witnesses these ancient civilisations as they were before the terrible devastation of the Vietnam...

Golden Earth: Travels in Burma

Despite communist incursions and tribal insurrection, Norman Lewis describes a land of breath-taking natural beauty peopled by the gentle Burmese.
This is a country where Buddhist beliefs spare even...

Naples '44

Norman Lewis arrived in Naples in 1944 as an Intelligence Officer attached to the American 5th Army. The local populace were starving and desperate. They had devoured all the tropical fish in the aquarium...

The Honoured Society

The Honoured Society describes how the US army returned the Mafia to power in 1944, after Mussolini came close to destroying them.
It looks at the Mafia in their homeland - how in attempting to preserve...

The Tomb In Seville

In 1934 Norman Lewis and his Sicilian brother-in-law Eugene Corvaja set out on a journey to visit the cathedral in Seville, the site of the Corvaja family tomb. Spain is on the brink of civil war so...

Voices of the Old Sea

Voices of the Old Sea recounts Norman Lewis’s return to Spain after the war, where he settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now the Costa Brava. Voices of the Old Sea describes...

Voyage by Dhow

This collection of essays is the result of a lifetime - over 60 years - spent travelling. From the Russian Steppes, via the Yemen, to Naples, Paraguay and beyond, Norman Lewis has yet to find a place...