Granite Island
Portrait of Corsica
$33.34
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2008
Summary
A classic of travel writing - new to Classics, with an introduction by Rolli Lucarotti.
“Get away from here before you’re completely bewitched and enslaved…” Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman’s cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was.
GRANITE ISLAND, much more than a travel book, grew out of years spent in Corsica and is an incomparably vivid and delightful portrait. For the first time Corsica is brought to light as a vital element…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141442273 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141442271 |
| Author: | Dorothy Carrington, Rolli Lucarotti |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Dorothy Carrington
Dorothy Carrington (1910-2002) was a gifted travel writer and historian who would not merely describe a place, but would delve into the very core of a people’s identity. Having once intended to wander the world and write many books about many places, she was so captivated by Corsica on her first visit to the island, in 1948, that she never left. After writing a definitive portrait of Corsica, Granite Island (1971), she went on to explore the curious family background of the most famous Corsican, in Napoleon and his Parents on the Threshold of History (1988), while her final book, The Dream Hunters of Corsica (1995), examines the mysterious dark side of the Corsican psyche.
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