# I Can't Stay Long

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- Book: [I Can't Stay Long](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurie-lee/i-cant-stay-long) ([I Can't Stay Long.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurie-lee/i-cant-stay-long.md))
- Authors: [Laurie Lee](https://www.bookquiver.com/laurie-lee)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4123-718-2
- Published: 2015-08-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did, before darkness began to fall from the air.' In this much-loved volume, a mature Laurie Lee returns to the Gloucestershire childhood familiar to readers of Cider with Rosie , a world lost even at the time of writing to the march of twentieth-century technology . Lee also explores the post-war travels that took him to, amongst others, the Netherlands, Tuscany, Mexico and the West Indies. With pieces dating from the 1940s and 50s, Lee captures a world now for ever changed by war and mass tourism, 'when to be a traveller was not yet to be just a labelled unit'.