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Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece

10 best books like Dinner with Persephone: Travels in Greece (Patricia Storace): Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece, A Place for Us: A Greek Immigrant Boy's Odyssey to a New Country and an Unknown Father, Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed: The Ultimate Nap Book, On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life, Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life, Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey, Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself, Stalking the Divine, Bazaar Style: Decorating with Market and Vintage Finds

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece
AuthorPatrick Leigh Fermor
Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece—stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past.

Roumeli describes Patrick...
A Place for Us: A Greek Immigrant Boy's Odyssey to a New Country and an Unknown Father
AuthorNicholas Gage
ISBN1886284733
Because I enjoyed Gage’s previous book, Eleni so much, I started this one with high expectations. Perhaps too high. Eleni. the story of his search for his mother’s killers, was full of suspense and high drama. A Place for Us is not.

I want to draw a comparison here between these two books,...
Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed: The Ultimate Nap Book
AuthorS.A.R.K.
ISBN0684859300
Recently I went home to visit my parents, and I found – in the basement – this little book about napping. At my parents’ house, every object and book that cannot be classified is taken down to an old “wreck-room,” full of miscellaneous bits and pieces.

“Change Your Life Without Getting...
On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal
AuthorMary Taylor Simeti
ISBN0679764143
My family spent a month in Sicily this past April. It was a much-needed vacation to one of my childhood homes, and it was a vacation full of good times, great food, and wonderful wine. While we there, my husband and I read several books concerning Sicily, and On Persephone's Island was my favorite. Simeti...
Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life
AuthorIrwin Kula
ISBN1401301924
"Irwin Kula shows us how to to live our humanness -- the pleasures and the challenges, the messiness and the triumphs -- with a profound acceptance of our desires and foibles and a joy that can only come from understanding." --Deepak Chopra "Yearning. After twenty-three years as a rabbi, I can think of...
Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
AuthorFrederic Brussat
ISBN0684835347
A book that belongs in every seeker's home, Spiritual Literacy answers the universal question, "How can I live a spiritual life every day?" Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat reveal a way to read the texts of our lives and of the world around us for sacred meaning.
Using more than 650 brief examples from...
Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey
AuthorAnastasia M. Ashman
ISBN1580051553
As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, a country both European and Asian, forward-looking yet rooted in ancient empire, Tales from the Expat Harem reveals its most personal nuances. This illuminating anthology provides a window into the country from the perspective...
Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself
AuthorJudith Duerk
ISBN1880913631
Long ago before the patriarchal period, in many places on Earth, the Goddess was worshipped. Circle of Stones draws us into a meditative experience of the lost Feminine and creates a space for us to consider our present lives from the eyes of women's ancient culture and ritual. Incorporating the most...
Stalking the Divine
AuthorKristin Ohlson
ISBN0452286409
I picked up this book because I recently read an interesting essay written by Kristin Ohlson and thought I'd like to see what else she had written. (The essay, by the way, about memories in childhood, is here:
http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/wh... )

From the cover, I see that this...
Bazaar Style: Decorating with Market and Vintage Finds
AuthorSelina Lake
ISBN1845976266
If you love rummaging through markets for unusual fabrics, and can’t pass an antique or second-hand shop without popping in, Bazaar Style is for you. Stylist Selina Lake and experienced interiors writer Joanna Simmons show you real homes furnished with intriguing pieces from different eras...
Nomad: A Global Approach to Interior Style
AuthorSibella Court
ISBN1452104964
In this deluxe cloth-covered style guide, celebrated designer Sibella Court travels the world in search of eclectic inspiration. She explores far-flung destinations and captures the essence of each in small details, exotic color palettes, exquisite textures, and traditional crafts. Along the...
Delirious Delhi : Inside India's Incredible Capital
AuthorDave Prager
ISBN9350291312
Delhi exists in a kind of quantum state: in Delhi, all things are true at once.

When the Big Apple no longer felt big enough, Dave and Jenny moved to a city of sixteen million people and, seemingly, twice that many horns honking at once. Delirious Delhi depicts India s capital as the two experienced...
The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West . . . Again
AuthorGeorge G. Hunter III
ISBN0687085853
Celtic Christianity--the form of Christian faith that flourished among the people of Ireland during the Middle Ages--has gained a great deal of attention lately. George G. Hunter III points out that, while the attention paid to the Celtic Christians is well deserved, much of it fails to recognize...
Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars
AuthorPaul Fussell
ISBN0195030680
The kind of felicity to which the Blue Train conveyed you, as it let you off at Marseilles or Toulon or Cannes or Nice or Monte Carlo, whence you could go on to the Italian Riviera, to Rapallo and all the way down to the Amalfi Coast, seemed novel in the 20’s. It seems novel no longer because those places have...
Italian Days
AuthorBarbara Grizzuti Harrison
ISBN0871137275
This book would not be the average reader's cup of tea to a 4 star level, IMHO. But it's almost a 5 star to me, despite it being dated. 4.5 star

She's not a writer with succinct word skill. She wanders all over the place with interface, comparisons or neither at all. But as much as she has an opinion,...
Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town
AuthorMichael Rips
ISBN0316748641
This book is a quick read, only 200 pages but full of amusing anecdotes and Italian eccentrics, an interesting mix of historical fact and myth, as well as the author's reflections on life in a small hilltop town called Sutri.
Sutri is in the Tuscia, where I live, so the book was of particular interest....
It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks
AuthorJohn Mole
ISBN1857883438
After falling in love with an incredible view John Mole found himself owning a pile of stones and 20 years of goat dung. With no water, electricity or even a road his family were unamused. This is the warm and funny story of the Mole family's dream of making a home in a whitewashed island house with a blue door...
North of Ithaka: A Granddaughter Returns to Greece and Discovers Her Roots
AuthorEleni N. Gage
In North of Ithaka, Eleni Gage returns to the remote Greek village of Lia, where her father was born and her grandmother murdered, to rebuild the ruins of her namesake's home and come to terms with her family's tragic history. In doing so, she leaves behind a sparkling social life and successful career...
Tropical Classical
AuthorPico Iyer
ISBN0517483181
In Tropical Classical the author of Video Nights in Katmandu and The Lady and the Monk visits a holy city in Ethiopia, where hooded worshippers practice a Christianity that has remained unchanged since the Middle Ages. He follows the bewilderingly complex route of Bombay's dabbawallahs, who each...
Passenger to Teheran
AuthorVita Sackville-West
ISBN1845113438
In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing across the...
Prospero's Cell
AuthorLawrence Durrell
ISBN0571201652
A guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corfu.

'One of Lawrence Durrell's best books - indeed, in its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.' Freya Stark

'This charming idyll depicts the country life and cosmopolitan society of Corfu in the years...
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