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Reflections on a Marine Venus - A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes (Paperback, Main)
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Discovery Miles 2 440
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Reflections on a Marine Venus - A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R244
Discovery Miles 2 440
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Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island
of Rhodes after World War II by the king of travel writing and
real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu. 'A magician ...
Durrell enchants.' The Times 'A lovely book ... Makes people feel
happy ... [So] pleasurable.' Observer 'A poet's intoxication with
landscape, a humanist's appetite for history, and an eye for
character worthy of a novelist . He excites a longing to leave for
Rhodes at once.' Sunday Times World War II is finally over, and
after four torturous years serving the Crown in Egypt, Lawerence
Durrell seeks peace in the landscapes he has loved ever since his
youth in Corfu: Mediterranean islands. He is posted to the Greek
island of Rhodes, and from his first dip in the dazzling blue
Aegean - which jolts his soul awake for the first time in years -
he immerses himself in the rhythms and moods of local life,
befriending eccentric villagers and quaffing ouzo as through the
war was a distant dream. With his dazzling poet's eye and passion
for excavating ancient history, Durrell recaptures the mythic
Rhodes of legend, of knights and crusades, that lies beneath its
war-ravaged surface. It is a place that you will never forget. 'Our
last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' Richard
Holmes 'Masterly ... Casts a spell.' Jan Morris 'Incandescent.'
Andre Aciman 'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.'
Victoria Hislop 'Like long letters from a civilized and very funny
friend - the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves.'
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