Granite Island : A Portrait Of Corsica - Softcover

Carrington, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140095241 ISBN 13: 9780140095241

Publisher: Penguin, 1984

Synopsis

Recounting the archaic beliefs of rural Corsica, with its witchcraft and its vendetta system, viewing Genoese architecture, or commenting on the modern "pleasure invasion", this book also evokes the scenery, the mountains and olive trees, the heady scent of the maquis and the austere beauty of the granite villages of Corsica. This book won the Heinemann Prize.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A classic of travel writing -- new to Classics, with an introduction by Rolli Lucarotti. Conjuring a fast-vanishing world of unbroken tradition, bandits, spirits and visionaries in evocative prose, Granite Island is a valuable historical record of a highly individualistic culture and a luminous work of travel writing.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140095241
• ISBN 13: 9780140095241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336