I wonder as I wander : an autobiographical journey /

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Main Author: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Language:English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, 1964.
Edition:First American century series edition.
Series:American century series
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt.1. In search of sun: Less than lyric.
  • Havana nights.
  • Cuban color lines.
  • Water front hotel.
  • Don't carry parcels.
  • People without shoes.
  • Official delegation.
  • It wasn't malaria.
  • pt.2. Poetry to the people: Mary McLeod Bethune.
  • Tragedy at Hampton.
  • Color at Chapel Hill.
  • Plantation hospitality.
  • Warning in Mississippi.
  • Personal autograph.
  • Making poetry pay.
  • Death house at Kilby.
  • Hilltop in San Francisco.
  • pt.3. Moscow movie: Banner at the border.
  • Scenario in Russian.
  • The mammy of Moscow.
  • Negroes in the USSR.
  • White sands of Odessa.
  • The bitter end.
  • pt.4. South to Samarkand: Forbidden territory.
  • Ashkhabad adventure.
  • Darkness before noon.
  • Once the Garden of Eden.
  • Turkmenian flamenco.
  • Koestler washes his hands.
  • High Holy Bokhara.
  • Synagogues and pencils.
  • Desert caravanserai.
  • Little old lady.
  • Hooligans of the road.
  • Tartar rendezvous.
  • Wedding in Tashkent.
  • Light for Asia.
  • Dixie Christmas USSR.
  • Flowers to the fair.
  • Farewell Samarkand.
  • Pt.5. Spring beside the Kremlin: Zero weather, zero hour.
  • Bread, red tape and poets.
  • Theater of the whirling seats.
  • Moscow romance.
  • Irritated and salivated.
  • Illusion and disillusion.
  • D.H. Lawrence between us.
  • Making Russians do right.
  • May day in Moscow.
  • Natasha's big scene.
  • Hectic finale.
  • Trans-Siberian express.
  • Ten days to Vladivostok.
  • pt.6. Color around the globe: Myself and two Australians.
  • Tea in Japan.
  • Watermelon from the Yangtze.
  • Incredible Shanghai.
  • Jazz in China.
  • Bon voyage chicken.
  • Spies and spiders.
  • American, go home.
  • Identical desires.
  • Honolulu leis.
  • pt.7. Writing for a living: Carmel-By-The-Sea.
  • Mailbox for the dead.
  • Period to a will.
  • Diego, Lupe and a leper.
  • Invitation to philanthropy.
  • A writer and a fighter.
  • First play on Broadway.
  • Prelude to Spain.
  • pt.8. World without end: Bombs in Barcelona.
  • Sweet wine of Valencia.
  • Breakfast in Madrid.
  • Harlem swing and Spanish shells.
  • Death and laughter.
  • Body here, leg there.
  • General Franco's Moors.
  • Citation for bravery.
  • My one and only wound.
  • A Hemingway story.
  • Hail and farewell.
  • Hand grenades and rations.
  • How a man died.
  • Negroes in Spain.
  • Artists under siege.
  • How to eat a cat.
  • Salud Madrid.
  • Happy new year.