Dorothy Carrington

Granite Island

Portrait of Corsica

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A travel book that reveals Corsica as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom and political justice, as well as their pride, hospitality and poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780141442273
• ISBN-10: 0141442271
• Artikelnr.: 23423728

Autorenporträt

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, and after writing a definitive portait 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.