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A Thing of Beauty - Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece (Hardcover)
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A Thing of Beauty - Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece (Hardcover)
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List price R590
Loot Price R480
Discovery Miles 4 800
You Save R110 (19%)
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AÂ BBC RADIO 4Â BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE
ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 ‘Peter Fiennes’s road
trip around Greece [is] engagingly described’ Mary
Beard, TLS ‘Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide
through Greece’ Observer ‘A wonderful… really profound
meditation on what it means to hope… a gorgeous excursion into
Greece and across the centuries on an environmental
quest’ BBC Radio 4 Open Book Book of the Year choice by
Anita Roy What do the Greek myths mean to us today? It’s now a
golden age for these tales – they crop up in novels, films and
popular culture. But what’s the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera
and Pandora? Were these stories ever meant for children? And
what’s to be seen now at the places where heroes fought and gods
once quarrelled? Peter Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the
most famous Greek myths, on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way
of seeing what we have done to our world. Fiennes walks through
landscapes – stunning and spoiled – on the trail of dancing
activists and Arcadian shepherds, finds the ‘most beautiful beach
in Greece’, consults the Oracle, and loses himself in the cities,
remote villages and ruins of this storied land.
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