Rate
Collection
Souk
Classify
Notes05/31/2019
6.0 8.0 8.5/10
Stanze
0 Reviews
Translated automatically Show original
Stanze
In the Desert Spring library
When Philip Sava, born in 1867, completed his training as a geographer, he explored his native California. He was particularly taken with the ghost towns in Kern County. He liked the abandoned settlements so much that he wanted to make a map of the villages. He found an antique barber's chair in Big Blue Mill. He unscrewed the chair, took it to Bakersfield with a horse-drawn carriage and sold it there for 50 US dollars. That was a lot of money back then. Thereupon he drove down the ghost towns again and again to search for valuable legacies. Sometimes he would sit in the houses for hours and breathe in the dust. Dry dust. He loved to sit in the old Desert Spring library. The books smelled so good. When he took a book from the shelf, the dust rose like smoke and curled in the rays of the hot desert sun that shone through the cracks between the boards in front of the windows. Moments of happiness in which he stayed in spirit in foreign countries and experienced adventures.
Sava wrote his first work "Wood Fire and Desert Sun" in the library of Desert Spring. The book was so successful that he was able to buy a farm in Madagascar from the proceeds. He fulfilled a childhood dream with it. He hired some natives and grew vanilla.
Sava never forgot his beginnings and rebuilt Desert Spring's abandoned library on his property in Madagascar. The library inspired his imagination and the adventures he experienced there in spirit made him a rich man. His travelogues have been translated into many languages. In the USA Sava had a similar meaning as Karl May in Germany. The two also met once at a writers' congress, but didn't have much to say, since May didn't speak English and Sava didn't speak German.
In 1923 Sava went on a lecture trip to Japan. His press agency had advised him to do so, as his books broke all sales records in Japan. Sava arrived in Yokohama on 1 September 1923 and took a room in a hotel. Unfortunately, the Great Kantō Earthquake destroyed the hotel where Sava lived and the writer was killed. Similar to later Elvis and Jim Morrison, Philip Sava was said not to be dead, but to have changed profession and become a perfumer to escape his followers. If he had become a perfumer, he would have olfactorily recreated the library in the ghost town of Desert Spring and the perfume would smell like Memoirs Of A Trespasser.
Sava wrote his first work "Wood Fire and Desert Sun" in the library of Desert Spring. The book was so successful that he was able to buy a farm in Madagascar from the proceeds. He fulfilled a childhood dream with it. He hired some natives and grew vanilla.
Sava never forgot his beginnings and rebuilt Desert Spring's abandoned library on his property in Madagascar. The library inspired his imagination and the adventures he experienced there in spirit made him a rich man. His travelogues have been translated into many languages. In the USA Sava had a similar meaning as Karl May in Germany. The two also met once at a writers' congress, but didn't have much to say, since May didn't speak English and Sava didn't speak German.
In 1923 Sava went on a lecture trip to Japan. His press agency had advised him to do so, as his books broke all sales records in Japan. Sava arrived in Yokohama on 1 September 1923 and took a room in a hotel. Unfortunately, the Great Kantō Earthquake destroyed the hotel where Sava lived and the writer was killed. Similar to later Elvis and Jim Morrison, Philip Sava was said not to be dead, but to have changed profession and become a perfumer to escape his followers. If he had become a perfumer, he would have olfactorily recreated the library in the ghost town of Desert Spring and the perfume would smell like Memoirs Of A Trespasser.
8 Replies
