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A collection of travel essays from the bestselling author whose writing sparkles with “prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves” (Time). Few men have traveled as wisely as Lawrence Durrell. Born in India, he lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian lifestyle. Over the following decades, he rambled around the Mediterranean, making homes in Egypt, Cyprus, and Greece. Each time he moved, he asked himself why he felt compelled to travel. In this book, he gives his answer. Durrell knew that the wise traveler looks not for pleasure, education, or landmarks, but is hungry for a sense of place—the element of a landscape, city, or nation that makes its people who they are. In this anthology, passages from Durrell’s classic Mediterranean writings are paired with observations on other lands. His writing is poetic, lush, and achingly clear, for this was a man who truly saw the world.

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Lawrence Durrell, the British author who is best known for his four novels comprising "The Alexandria Quartet," also composed a series of 'landscape books' about his pre- and post-war experiences in and around the Mediterranean. The books in this series are "Prospero's Cell, “Reflections on a Marine Venus,” “Bitter Lemons,” and “Sicilian Carousel.” Most of the excerpts in "The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader" are taken from these four 'landscape' books, plus a series of essays on his life in Provence.The first book, "Prospero's Cell" was written in the years preceding World War II. The setting for Shakespeare's "Tempest" is the Greek island of Corfu, argues one of the characters in this book, expounding on a deeply held belief of its author. The 'presiding genius' of Corfu, or as it was once called, Corcyra, is none other than Zeus Pantocrator.Durrell's foreshadowing of that grim future cast his landscapes and dazzling Greek villages of Corfu into intense relief. In his second book, war still clings like a gray film to the bright fabric of "Reflections of a Marine Venus," which was begun in 1945 and takes place on Rhodes. The ‘marine Venus' of the title is a statue which was found by sailors in their nets at the bottom of Rhodes harbor and which much appealed to Durrell, who thought of her as the 'presiding genius' of the place. He began this book while assigned to Rhodes as an information officer in 1945, and finally finished it in Belgrade in 1952 while working as a press attaché for the British Embassy.In his third island book, "Bitter Lemons," the author moves away from World War II, and into his experiences dodging gunmen and bombs during the postwar 'unrest' on Cyprus, which was then a British protectorate.Durrell's great obsession during his years on Cyprus was the purchase and restoration of an old Turkish house at Bellapaix. This is the best part of the book in spite of the stereotypical 'boisterous' Greeks and 'indolent' Turks. The author employs his best, most beautiful descriptions on his house, his village, and the surrounding territory.The fourth book in the series, "Sicilian Carousel" was published almost two decades after "Bitter Lemons" and Durrell is a much more mellow writer--perhaps because of his retirement from various posts within the British Foreign Office. Or perhaps because no one was shooting at him on Sicily.Martine, who was a friend of Durrell's on Cyprus ("Bitter Lemons") is a ghostly presence on Sicily, the largest and perhaps the most beautiful of the Mediterranean islands. She had tried to persuade Durrell to visit her in life. Instead, he brings her letters to Sicily and shares Martine's favorite places with her in death. He compares her "to a sea-bird who has floated out of sight" and spends the book trying to lay her ghost.I had not yet read Durrell's collection of essays about Provence, his home during the last three decades of his life and was happy to find a few of them in this 'Travel Reader.' They are truly a delight, most especially his plumber's search for a wife in "Laura, a Portrait of Avignon."Here is the table of contents, which I've annotated to include the titles of Durrell's four 'landscape' books:Editor’s NoteSPIRIT OF PLACE-- Landscape and CharacterCORFU ("Prospero's Cell")-- Divisions upon Greek-- Ground Ionian Profiles-- Landscape with Olive Trees-- A Landmark Gone-- Oil for the Saint; Return to CorfuRHODES ("Reflections of a Marine Venus")-- Of Paradise Terrestre--The Little Summer of Saint Demetrius-- The Three Lost Cities CYPRUS ("Bitter Lemons")-- How to Buy a House--The Tree of Idleness-- The Vanishing Landmarks-- TroubadourSICILY ("Sicilian Carousel")-- Arrival-- Agrigento-- Erice-- TaorminaPROVENCE-- In Praise of Fanatics-- Laura, A Portrait of Avignon-- Across Secret Provence-- Old Mathieu DELPHI-- Delphi

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