The White Umbrella by Brian Sewell
For Mr B it was love at first sight: when he saw the tiny donkey being abused by its owner, he knew he had to come to her rescue. He called her Pavlova (on account of her long legs) and knew that their destinies were now entwined. There was no way his film crew was going to fly them both back to London, so Mr B quite sensibly decides that they will travel overland-and what a trip it runs out to be He leaves his film crew in Pakistan and embarks on a journey, donkey in tow, across Iran, through Turkey, into Germany and France to bring her home to suburban London. Enroute, they encounter drug smugglers, carpet salesmen and hosts of every variety, until they finally hitch a lift from Hector, an aristocratic Brit who drives a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow, in which the two eccentric Englishmen successfully smuggle Pavlova across The Channel.Brian Sewell has been the London Evening Standard's art critic for almost 20 years and is one of the paper's most well-known political columnists, winning national and international press awards. He is a Courtauld Institute graduate who has authored exhibition publications for the Royal Academy, the British Council, and the Council of Europe, as well as contributing to the Royal Collection catalogues. He also spent a decade as an expert on old masters at Christie's, the worldwide art auctioneers, and as a consultant to museums and galleries in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and South Africa. He writes for scholarly journals and broadcasts on radio and television.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781567926248 |
| ISBN 10 | 156792624X |
| Title | The White Umbrella |
| Author | Brian Sewell |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher Inc |
| Year published | 2018-05-25 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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