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Pleasure by the Busload

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SKU:
665
Condition:
Good - Dust jacket minimally edge-worn; pages are clean, crisp and unmarked with the exception of the previous owner's name written on the inside front cover.
Format:
Hardback, 276 pages
Publisher:
Harper & Brothers, 1961
Take a Volkswagen Microbus, boost up into it Emily, Sophy, the lovely and famous Greek musician Gina Bachauer, her English husband, orchestra conductor Alec Sherman, and her brother-in-law, Dr. Sherman, alias, in the book, "Brother T.," spin them through the streets of Lisbon, launch them on a tour of enchanting Portuguese by-ways (many as yet undiscovered by most travelers), and the prize is pleasure all the way. Few inhabitants of Portugal speak English. The travelers in the Microbus spoke little Portuguese--although Sophy, the indispensable, indisputable leader of any group, had done a stint at Berlitz. Yet not all the mishaps and comic mix-ups can be put down to language difficulties. Character is fate, and no amount of fluency in the native patois could have prevented Emily's heading straight for the bull in her haste to get away from the fiesta brava, for instance. The delightful and the absurd--a nightingale at dawn, a storybook country fair, a preposterous traffic jam, the beach at Nazaré, folk dances and Fado, the food, the churches and the castles--are winningly entwined with the facts about the ways and means of enjoying Portugal that every traveler (armchair or otherwise) will want. In Pleasure by the Busload, Miss Kimbrough, with a group of irresistible companions, takes her readers on a new journey--perhaps the most unusual and enjoyable so far. Drawings by Vasiliu

Take a Volkswagen Microbus, boost up into it Emily, Sophy, the lovely and famous Greek musician Gina Bachauer, her English husband, orchestra conductor Alec Sherman, and her brother-in-law, Dr. Sherman, alias, in the book, "Brother T.," spin them through the streets of Lisbon, launch them on a tour of enchanting Portuguese by-ways (many as yet undiscovered by most travelers), and the prize is pleasure all the way.

Few inhabitants of Portugal speak English.  The travelers in the Microbus spoke little Portuguese--although Sophy, the indispensable, indisputable leader of any group, had done a stint at Berlitz.  Yet not all the mishaps and comic mix-ups can be put down to language difficulties.  Character is fate, and no amount of fluency in the native patois could have prevented Emily's heading straight for the bull in her haste to get away from the fiesta brava, for instance.

The delightful and the absurd--a nightingale at dawn, a storybook country fair, a preposterous traffic jam, the beach at Nazaré, folk dances and Fado, the food, the churches and the castles--are winningly entwined with the facts about the ways and means of enjoying Portugal that every traveler (armchair or otherwise) will want.

In Pleasure by the Busload, Miss Kimbrough, with a group of irresistible companions, takes her readers on a new journey--perhaps the most unusual and enjoyable so far.

Drawings by Vasiliu

About the Author 

Emily Kimbrough (1899-1989) was a native of Indiana.  She grew up in Chicago, studied at Bryn Mawr and at the Sorbonne, was, in her first job, editor of Marshall Field & Co.'s magazine, Fashions of the Hour, then fashion editor and later managing editor of The Ladies' Home Journal.  She lived in New York, traveled a great deal on lecture tours and on holiday journeys.  Kimbrough is well-known by readers in such books as And a Right Good Crew (1958), Water, Water, Everywhere (1956), So Near and Yet So Far (1955), Forty Plus and Fancy Free (1954).  Among her other books are It Gives Me Great Pleasure (1948) and Through Charley's Door (1952).