Old Friends and Modern Instances

by Nicholas Henderson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $4.20

  A distinguished British public servant and Ambassador to several countries, the author recalls people and places which have engaged him, from a Bloomsbury childhood to Mrs Thatcher at Chequers, from indoor games with the Kennedys to shopping with Isaiah Berlin and fishing in Kurdistan ...

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.25

  In a delightful book, Nicholas Henderson turns the pages of a varied and interesting life, and remembers. The memories are mostly portraits, often triggered off by passing incidents. The subjects range widely: a Bloomsbury childhood, a prep-school politician in the making, indoor games with the Kennedy family, tennis with Roy Jenkins, a demanding fishing trip in Kurdistan, a ball at Chatsworth, conversations with Isaiah Berlin, the flashing wit of Mrs. Ian Fleming, lunch with Mrs. Thatcher, a Sissinghurt weekend, dons and writers, politicians and country people - are just some of them. These are not formal portraits, but snapshots, sidelong glances...