ASIN: B004XTTVMM
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 142
Lawrence Bohme's whimsically told but scrupulously faithful "personal history" of his first 41 years is entitled My Very Long Youth because "due to a force beyond my control I only started growing up, or calming down, after that age". His erratic wanderings throughout the Western World, in the four decades following the war during which Lawrence was born, have been enough "without wasting one word" to fill 16 books exploring the scope of his wanderlust and his insatiable curiosity for mankind in general "and women in particular". The eclectic author - "a half-European, half-American child of the second half of the 20th century" – defines his opus as being all at once "a retrospective diary, an eye-witness newspaper, a comic book composed of his own drawings and photographs, an artistic and historical travel guide, a movie made up of stills and, to put it politely, a partially contrite ...
