Ethel Mannin, a prolific writer of novels, travel narratives, magazine articles, children's stories, short stories, educational treatises, and political manifestos, published more than one hundred books over half a century, incorporating into many of them her often-protean socialist political ideology. Mannin ardently voiced her opinions on politics and religion in nearly all her nonfiction, especially in her travel narratives. Mannin wrote poignantly on issues such as the Allied rebuilding of Europe and Japan after World War II, British colonial abuses, and Arab-Israeli tensions. She advocated pacifism during the Spanish Civil War; she remained throughout her life an unyielding anti-Zionist; and she scoffed at the British aristocracy. A socialist and later self-styled anarchist, Mannin received attention for her early work, but in later years she struggled for recognition and financial security. As she said in Brief Voices (1959), she recognized that she had "only a limited talent," but she had...