The General in His Labyrinth explores the labyrinth of Bolívar's life through the narrative of his memories, in which "despair, sickness, and death inevitably win out over love, health, and life". Following the success of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", García Márquez decided to write about the "Great Liberator" after reading an unfinished novel by his friend Álvaro Mutis. He borrowed the setting—Bolívar's voyage down the Magdalena River in 1830—from Mutis. García Márquez spent two years researching the subject, encompassing the extensive memoirs of Bolívar's Irish aide-de-camp, Daniel Florencio O'Leary, as well as numerous other historical documents and
The Wilder Shores of Love Chamberet, is titled "Lesley Blanch: On the Wilder Shores of Love" in homage to the novel. The Wilder Shores of Love The Wilder Shores of Love is a 1954 impressionistic novel by British novelist Lesley Blanch. It is her most famous novel. The novel tells the story of four British Women who leave Europe for adventures and romance in the Middle East. Contemporary reviews of the novel focused on its artistic style and "colourful" plot. The title of the novel has inspired subsequent works. Blanch created a book of travel writings title "From Wilder Shores: The Tables of My Travels"