Corsica: Portrait of a Granite Island

Author: Carrington, Dorothy

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Reference #: 2111

Status: For Sale

List Price: $50.00

The John Day Company, New York, 1974; First American Edition, Fine in Near Fine dj; Quarto (10”) bound in tan buckram. Xi + 336 pp.; map frontispiece; illustrated; Notes, Selected Bibliography and Index. The British edition won the Royal Society of Literature award.

“Scholarly research, acutely lived personal experiences, and the author’s sensitive and intelligent observation make the book continuously delightful and fascinating. She evokes the magnificent scenery and austere granite villages. She illustrates the traditional pastoral herds’ economy with accounts of her visits to shepherds’ settlements little changed since proto-historic times. A study of banditry and the vendetta system is completed with a description of her personal encounters with people and families still involved.”