Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
10 best books like Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (Patrick Leigh Fermor): Each Peach Pear Plum, Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, Stick Out Your Tongue, Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen, The Colossus of Maroussi, Saga Ástu, Prospero's Cell, Changer l'eau des fleurs, Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life, Greeks Bearing Gifts
'Each Peach Pear Plum' - the classic picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg - is a timeless picture book classic from the bestselling illustrator/author team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!. Each beautifully illustrated page encourages young children to interact with the picture to...
| Author | Artemis Cooper |
| ISBN | 0719554497 |
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educated...
| Author | Ma Jian |
| ISBN | 0374269882 |
Tibet is a land lost in the glare of politics and romanticism, and Ma Jian set out to discover its truths. Stick Out Your Tongue is a revelation: a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet, both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and violent, seductive and perverse.
In this profound work of fiction,...
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
| Author | Mary Norris |
| ISBN | 1324001275 |
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.
In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to...
| Author | Henry Miller |
| ISBN | 0811201090 |
The Colossus of Maroussi is an impressionist travelogue by Henry Miller, written in 1939 and first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco. As an impoverished writer in need of rejuvenation, Miller travelled to Greece at the invitation of his friend, the writer Lawrence Durrell. The text is...
| Author | Jón Kalman Stefánsson |
| ISBN | 9935488128 |
Hvert fer maður ef það er engin leið út úr heiminum?
Öll fæðumst við nafnlaus en erum mjög fljótlega nefnd svo það verði ögn erfiðara fyrir dauðann að sækja okkur.
Foreldrar Ástu völdu nafnið meðan hún var enn í móðurkviði. Nú liggur Sigvaldi faðir...
| Author | Lawrence Durrell |
| ISBN | 0571201652 |
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...
| Author | Valérie Perrin |
| ISBN | 2226403043 |
Violette Toussaint est garde-cimetière dans une petite ville de Bourgogne. Les gens de passage et les habitués viennent se réchauffer dans sa loge où rires et larmes se mélangent au café qu'elle leur offre. Son quotidien est rythmé par leurs confidences. Un jour, parce qu'un homme et une femme...
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
| Author | Daniel Klein |
| ISBN | 0143121936 |
One of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus travels to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books, seeking the best way to achieve a fulfilling old age. Daniel Klein journeys to the Greek island Hydra to discover the secrets of aging happily. Drawing on the lives of his Greek friends,...
Bernie Gunther returns in the thirteenth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris.1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther's latest move in a long string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense:...
