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Granite Island: Portrait of Corsica (Penguin Classics) Book

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.Read More

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  • Foyles

    '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 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.

  • BookDepository

    Granite Island : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780141442273 : 0141442271 : 29 May 2008 : 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.

  • Blackwell

    Dorothy Carrington traveled to Corsica in 1948 on what would become the first of many visits. Granite Island is the result of her enduring fascination with the island's dramatic history, physical grandeur and enigmatic people. Conjuring a fast...

  • Pickabook

    Dorothy Carrington, Rolli Lucarotti

  • 0141442271
  • 9780141442273
  • Dorothy Carrington
  • 29 May 2008
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
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