Ed Van Der Elsken: Sweet Life

by Jeffrey Ladd

In 1960, armed with two magazine commissions and a stipend from Netherlands television, Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) and his wife Gerda set off on a fourteen-month journey around the world, from West Africa, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan to the United States and Mexico. Six years after their return, he published his travelogue Sweet Life (named after a little tramp steamer in the Philippines): a sprawling, exuberant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935004255
• ISBN13: 9781935004257
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Errata Editions
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.8"