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I Wonder as I Wander An Autobiographical Journey

Publication date
1993-08
Publisher
Macmillan
Pages
405
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780809015504
Language
en
Literary FictionBiographyMemoir
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In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and brings to life the famous and the humble, from Arthur Koestler to Emma, the Black Mammy of Moscow. It is the continuously amusing, wise revelation of an American writer journeying around the often strange and always exciting world he loves.