Travels with Myself and Another

A Memoir

By: Martha Gellhorn

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Harry Nangle

Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's Summary

Including a foreword by Bill Buford, Travels With Myself and Another rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman. 

"Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.  

Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.

©2001 Martha Gellhorn (P)2018 Penguin Audio

Travels with myself and others

This book is excellent it’s my absolutely favorite I’m gonna try to get it in hardcover so I can collect it I thoroughly enjoyed it I think you will too

Dark side of travel

At first the voice of the narrator seems too young for the age from which Martha Gellhorn writes. But after a few hours one becomes a accustomed to the narrator who hits the right note of edginess and humor. By the end of the book I reconciled her focus on the negative aspects of travel with her opening observation that listeners seem most interested in the dark side, what goes wrong.

Great Narration of modestly interesting book

Rebecca Lowman is an awesome narrator. The book is fine, but stretches get tedious gives a sense of Gellhorn as a person

Unique Adventures & Political Insights

Martha Bellhorn bares all as she describes the highs and, much more common and irksome, lows of "pioneering" travel escapades peppered throughput her life. This makes for a one-of-a-kind thoughtful read delivered via a strikingly authentic performance. The reader feels as if she is really there!