I started collecting books by Jan and Cora Gordon many years ago, books about travel and art. I must admit that I had not looked at the books for ages - other interests intervened! Then when looking at the new ebooks on Project Gutenberg I spotted Poor Folk in Spain. The Luck of Thirteeen is also available on Project Gutenberg.
Read more about Jan and Cora Gordon:
Vagabonds Abroad, by Duncan J D Smith: "during the 1920s the British couple Jan and Cora
Gordon were something of a cultural phenomenon."
The Jan and Cora Gordon Appreciation Blog "I have been researching the life and work of Jan and Cora Gordon for some 32 years. I have accumulated possibly the biggest collection of the their work and artifacts in private hands. The research started in 1978 and is ongoing to this day. It is a long slow and hard process as it has been funded entirely by myself."
Read more about Jan and Cora Gordon:
Vagabonds Abroad, by Duncan J D Smith: "during the 1920s the British couple Jan and Cora
Gordon were something of a cultural phenomenon."
The Jan and Cora Gordon Appreciation Blog "I have been researching the life and work of Jan and Cora Gordon for some 32 years. I have accumulated possibly the biggest collection of the their work and artifacts in private hands. The research started in 1978 and is ongoing to this day. It is a long slow and hard process as it has been funded entirely by myself."
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ReplyDeleteKen Bryant wrote a very nice summary of the early biographical details of the Gordons in his preface to the 2007 Bene Factum reissue of Two Vagabonds in Languedoc. His website (a lively account of an obsession spanning a third of a century) is up and running again here: http://www.janandcoragordon.co.uk/the-beginning.html (I've given up on the link formatting for this site).
Some of the cross-references in more recent books are very interesting, e.g.
- On their SE Spain journeys (in Spanish): http://www.dipalme.org/Servicios/Anexos/anexosiea.nsf/VAnexos/IEA-LVA27/$File/LVA27.pdf
- On guitar-making (Antonio de Torres and Julian Gómez Ramirez): http://books.google.com/books?id=EOMU8U7qNcsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
- and this on Chaplin and Los Angeles: http://www.amazon.com/Chaplin-His-Life-David-Robinson/dp/0306806002