by Henry de Monfreid · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221073377
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«Mes vies d'aventures: Le feu de Saint-Elme» is the adventure autobiography of Henry de Monfreid, published by Robert Laffont in paperback and in French.
Henry de Monfreid, known as «the man of the Red Sea», looks back in this autobiographical account on a life devoted to exploration: voyages, travels and geographical discoveries narrated in the voice of a ship's log. Written at the end of his career, the book sums up a century of adventures and dreams lived with total commitment.
Originally published in 1992, the book has 402 pages.
For readers interested in travel literature, exploration narratives and lives devoted to adventure.
Henry de Monfreid was a French adventurer, a prolific writer, sailor, a smuggler, a shipowner, a hashish trader, and perhaps a spy. Born in Leucate, Aude, France, he was the son of artist painter Georges-Daniel de Monfreid and knew Paul Gauguin as a child.
