The Changing Sky

"Travel came before writing. There was a time when I felt that all I wanted from life was to be allowed to remain a perpetual spectator of changing scenes. I managed my meager supply of money as to be able to surrender myself as much as possible to this addiction, and charged with a wonderful ignorance I went abroad by third class train, country bus, on foot, by canoe, by tramp steamer and by Arab dhow."With this as credo Norman Lewis took off for places far removed from our world. He sojourned in Belize, a surviving Caribbean colony of the last century; Guatemala, the last home of the unmodernized native--the Mayan Indian; and Ibiza, where men who wear shorts are arrested. His adventures are of the highest order.