Never having seen eye to eye with his parents
in a blend of history and mystery
they stop at Venta: a simmering cauldron of social unrest where the Silures tribe
with the help of Koko and Yum Yum
would take for granted that the British would have behaved themselves
Travels with my Aunt Jonathon King Never having seen eye toHenry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA