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Name: Reflections on a Marine Venus

Author: Lawrence Durrell
Year: 1943
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Genres/categories:
Travel, Non Fiction
Culture: Greece

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ISBNs:
9780571201709
0571201709

In his hugely popular Prospero's Cell, Lawrence Durrell brought Corfu to life, attracting tens of thousands of visitors to the island. With Reflections on a Marine Venus, he turns to Rhodes: ranging over its past and present, touching with wit and insights on the history and myth which the landscape embodies, and presenting some real and some imagined. With the same wit, tenderness and poetic insight that characterized Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus is an excellent introduction the Eastern Mediterranean.

"How pleasant... to meet Mr Durrell, gloating over his enjoyment of a Greek island! ... He excites a longing to leave for Rhodes at once." -Raymond Mortimer