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A part of Croft-Cooke's series of autobiographical works, The Sensual World. The Author says, "I've given this reserve its title because what seem to fit each of the two journeys it reports, journeys which, in the cant phrase of the courtroom, ran concurrently. The first was through the Mediterranean over a Yugoslav cargo boat during the coldest month of one of Europe's most icy winters for a century. The second was along the coastlines of some recent fiction, my choice being designed for me by the booksellers in various plug-ins on whose securities of Penguins I relied." The catalogs in the Sensual World series are a beautiful record of their time. England of the '20s, '30s, and '40s is brilliantly evoked, and the descriptions of his moves in European countries and Argentina catch the wonder of children and discovery. He found many famous writers of that time period, and the descriptions of his meetings with Kipling, Masefield, Chesterton, and Compton Mackenzie, among others, are packed with insight and also the freshness and enthusiasm of a beginner writer at your toes of his heroes. He creates with skill, lightness of touch, and humour. The English writer Rupert Croft-Cooke (1903-1979) shared 30-odd novels on a multitude of things in his lifetime, as well as poetry, works, nonfiction catalogs on such diverse matters as Buffalo Invoice, Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, Victorian writers, bad guys, the circus, gypsies, wine, cookery, and darts. Beneath the pen name of Leo Bruce he also published more than 30 criminal offenses novels. At the age of 20, Croft-Cooke put in two years in Buenos Aires, where he founded the journal La Estrella. In 1925 he came back to London and began a career as a freelance journalist and article writer. His work appeared in a variety of periodicals, including New Writing, Adelphi, and the English Review. In the past due 1920s the American magazine Poetry shared many of his works. He was also a radio broadcaster on mindset. In 1940 he signed up with the British Military and dished up in Africa and India until 1946. He later published several catalogs about his armed forces experience. From 1953 to 1968 Croft-Cooke resided in Morocco where he published his Sensual World series, possibly his most significant contribution to English letters, written as a series of 27 autobiography-cum-travel catalogs.
