Travels in the North - Exemplified by the Author's Drawings

By Karel Capek

Travels in The North is a travelogue about a trip (taken some years earlier) through Denmark, Norway and Sweden penned by Karel Čapek in the 1930s. Written in an endearingly frank and reflective but humourous central European style it also incorporates many brilliant and idiosyncratic pen & ink drawings by the author. The pages are full of illustrations, at least one every other page, which make it beautiful to flick though as well as read

This early work by Karel Čapek was originally published in Czech under the title "Cesta na sever" in 1936 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sims Press
• Release date: Apr 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781473392892

Karel Capek

Karel Capek was born in 1890 in Czechoslovakia. He was interested in visual art as a teenager and studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague. During WWI he was exempt from military service because of spinal problems and became a journalist. He campaigned against the rise of communism and in the 1930s his writing became increasingly anti-fascist. He started writing fiction with his brother Josef, a successful painter, and went on to publish science-fiction novels, for which he is best known, as well as detective stories, plays and a singular book on gardening, The Gardener’s Year. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature several times and the Czech PEN Club created a literary award in his name. He died of pneumonia in 1938.