Prospero's Cell a Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra and Reflections on a Marine Venus a Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes (Two Volumes in One)

Lovely recollection of life on Corfu before WW II and a posting in Rhodes immediately after WW II. Landscape, people, festivals described in loving detail with some notes on history. Durrell is also a novelist, best known for the Alexandria Quartet, four novels set in Egypt. His brother Gerald

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Durrell was a naturalist who wrote memoirs of his family recently made into a PBS program.

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