Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are, and there's no better place to go than Greece with Charmian Clift's "Travels in Greece", and there's no better place to stay than beside Riverbend's roaring fireplace.
Το ζευγάρι των συγγραφέων μετακομίζει από την Κάλυμνο στην Ύδρα, της δεκαετίας του 60, και εντάσσεται στην μποέμικη καλλιτεχνική κοινότητα που ζει τότε στο νησί.
In the 1950s Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston - he of "My Brother Jack" fame - took their family to live in the Greek islands. "Travels in Greece" is a beautifully repackaged hardcover edition of Charmian's "Mermaid Singing", which chronicles their life on Kalymnos, a bare, poor little island far from the tourist trail, and "Peel Me a Lotus", an evocative and warm-hearted tale of their daily life on the island of Hydra. It's about escapism and about people who have dreamed of islands, and about what happens when their dreams come true.
Ένα ταξιδιωτικό memoir από μια Αυστραλή συγγραφέα που αγάπησε την Ελλάδα και έγινε μέρος της. Κάθε σελίδα σκορπάει χρώματα και αρώματα και τον ενθουσιασμό της συγγραφέα που παρασέρνει τον αναγνώστη.
With plenty of firewood and an almost-full bottle of 'Glühwein' beside me, I have plenty of time to travel through the next two hundred pages.
καλό ταξίδι!
P.S. And while I was not successful in finding an online copy of "Travels in Greece" for you to read, I discovered a preview of "The End of the Morning", a never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift which even I had never heard of. And there is a copy of it for sale on ebay for $37.
