# As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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- Book: [As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurie-lee/as-i-walked-out-one-midsummer-morning) ([As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurie-lee/as-i-walked-out-one-midsummer-morning.md))
- Authors: [Laurie Lee](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurie-lee)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-328-0
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2014-05-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world' Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to travel further a field and knowing only the Spanish phrase for 'Will you please give me a glass of water?', he heads for Spain. With just a blanket to sleep under and his trusty violin, he spends a year crossing Spain, from Vigo in the north to the southern coast. Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations . . .