David Mackinnon: A Dangerous Life, Volume 1, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Blurb

Voodoo killers, Bank Robbers & Sewermen: True tales from the life and times of Blaise Cendrars, the world's greatest vagabond features seven Cendrars works: The Sewerman of London : a tale of a secret passage leading to the Bank of England, gleaned from a fellow legionnaire while trapped in the trenches of the Great War; River of Blood (J'ai saigné) : the 1st-hand narrative of the killing fields of Champagne, and the day in 1916 he lost his writing hand to a German machine-gunner;Fébronio : Cendrars' chilling and compelling interview with Brazil's most infamous serial voodoo killer; The Diamond Circle: the tale of the discovery of a diamond with a curse; Hip-flask of blood (Bidon de sang) : translation by Cendrars of an unpublished spaghetti-western novel by the bank robber lawyer Al Jennings;Le Saint Inconnu (The Anonymous Saint) ; Anecdotique: On Saint-Exupéry.