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‘Excellent … A graceful picture of life on an unusual and exotic island that has both colour and charm’
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‘Excellent … A graceful picture of life on an unusual and exotic island that has both colour and charm’ (Times Literary Supplement )
‘A brilliant set piece … Patrick Leigh Fermor has a fine visual imagination’ (New Statesman )
‘A stylish and accomplished piece of sustained good writing … with a strange beauty’ (Glasgow Herald )
‘Patrick Leigh Fermor evokes the imaginary past with unremitting devotion … enchantingly pretty’ (Observer )
‘Elegant and vividly exotic … The story of the island and the echoing romance of its last Mardi Gras is done with brilliant aesthetic feeling and with a charming philosophic melancholy’ (The Times )
‘This little masterpiece is a perfect tour de force’ (Simon Winchester )
‘An exuberant and highly-developed traveller’s tale, garlanded with deeply enjoyed and lovingly precise detail’ (Sunday Times )
‘Beautiful is the adjective which comes uppermost … [Patrick Leigh Fermor] is a writer with outstanding descriptive powers’ (John Betjeman, Daily Telegraph )
'Bringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples ... to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better' (Geographical Magazine )
'brings alive the glamour and the passions of the planters in their heyday' (Geographical Magazine )
'John Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor's main books ... But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world?' (Geographical Magazine )
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‘Excellent … A graceful picture of life on an unusual and exotic island that has both colour and charm’
Review
‘Excellent … A graceful picture of life on an unusual and exotic island that has both colour and charm’ (Times Literary Supplement )
‘A brilliant set piece … Patrick Leigh Fermor has a fine visual imagination’ (New Statesman )
‘A stylish and accomplished piece of sustained good writing … with a strange beauty’ (Glasgow Herald )
‘Patrick Leigh Fermor evokes the imaginary past with unremitting devotion … enchantingly pretty’ (Observer )
‘Elegant and vividly exotic … The story of the island and the echoing romance of its last Mardi Gras is done with brilliant aesthetic feeling and with a charming philosophic melancholy’ (The Times )
‘This little masterpiece is a perfect tour de force’ (Simon Winchester )
‘An exuberant and highly-developed traveller’s tale, garlanded with deeply enjoyed and lovingly precise detail’ (Sunday Times )
‘Beautiful is the adjective which comes uppermost … [Patrick Leigh Fermor] is a writer with outstanding descriptive powers’ (John Betjeman, Daily Telegraph )
'Bringing the landscape alive as no other writer can, he uses his profound and eclectic understanding of cultures and peoples ... to paint vivid pictures - nobody has illuminated the geography of Europe better' (Geographical Magazine )
'brings alive the glamour and the passions of the planters in their heyday' (Geographical Magazine )
'John Murray is doing the decent thing and reissuing all of Leigh Fermor's main books ... But what else would you expect from a publisher whose commitment to geography is such that for more than two centuries it has widened our understanding of the world?' (Geographical Magazine )
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