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Anglophone writers on the Greek experience
by Aleko, Anglophone reader

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Love Had a Compass: Journals and Poetry (Grove Press Poetry Series)
by Robert Lax, James J. Uebbing (Editor) (Hardcover)
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Lax is hard to figure out but he loved Greece.

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Modern Greek Lessons
by James D. Faubion (Hardcover)
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One of the most elegant books ever written, Deals with the "Poetics" of Athens.

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The Magus
by John Fowles (Paperback)
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A psychological thriller based on a Greek island...excellent.

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Reflections on a Marine Venus
by Lawrence Durrell (Paperback)
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Lawrence Durrell (beautifully) recalls his adventures on the island of Rhodes.

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Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra
by Lawrence Durrell (Paperback)
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Durrell's exquisite memoir of Corfu.

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Eleni
by NICHOLAS GAGE (Paperback)
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A well-written account of sad events in Epirus...jolting in parts.

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This Way to Paradise--Dancing on the Tables
by Willard Manus, Manus Willard (Paperback)
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Aleko's comments:
A delightful story about living half one's life on Rhodes, by an American.

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Priest Fainted
by Catherine Davidson
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Why can't I find anything else by Davidson? She is a great writer.

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Dinner with Persephone : Travels in Greece
by PATRICIA STORACE (Paperback)
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Storace is justly famous, this is an excellent book.

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My Family and Other Animals (Penguin Nature Classics)
by Gerald Durrell (Paperback)
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This book is by now a classic...and very, very funny.

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Colossus of Maroussi
by Henry Miller (Paperback)
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As far as I can make out, this is Miller's best.

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A Lone Red Apple
by Aurelia (Paperback)
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A pleasant book with some helpful but undeveloped insights.

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Eurydice Street
by Sofka Zinovieff (Hardcover)
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Aleko's comments:
A charming book by a Brit lady living in Athens.

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The Bellstone: The Greek Sponge Divers of the Aegean : One American's Journey Home
by Michael N. Kalafatas (Hardcover)
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An American professor searches out his Aegean roots.

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It's All Greek to Me! : A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina-and Real Greeks
by John Mole (Paperback)
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Aleko's comments:
A wonderfully funny tale of house-building on a Greek island.

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Fodor's Athens: The Collected Traveler (Collected Traveler)
by BARRIE KERPER (Paperback)
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Kerper does a good job of compilng short pieces, some by famous writers.

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Hellas : Portrait of Greece
by NICHOLAS GAGE
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Gage gives a lot of info about prominent Greek families you wouldn't expect to find in a book.

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Greece: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companion , No 5)
by Artemis Leontis (Editor) (Paperback)
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This is a good compilation of literary texts.

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Little Infamies: Stories
by Panos Karnezis (Hardcover)
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Karnezis is Greek but writes in English. The best fiction I've read in several years.

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A Place of Healing for the Soul: Patmos
by Peter France (Paperback)
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The author's main concern is the inner life ... religion and culture ... nicely done.

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One Mykonos: Being Ancient, Being Islands, Being Giants, Being Gay
by James Davidson (Hardcover)
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This is an unapologetically "gay" book with lots of erudition by a firtst-rate scholar.

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The Greeks
by James Pettifer (Paperback)
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Aleko's comments:
An insightful, informative book by a knowledgeable writer.

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The Way of the Dreamcatcher: Spirit Lessons with Robert Lax: Poet, Peacemaker, Sage
by Steve T. Georgiou (Paperback - April 2002)
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Mostly about Robert Lax but contains some of the "flavor" of Patmos Island.

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The Summer of My Greek Taverna : A Memoir
by Tom Stone (Hardcover)
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This is a fun read ... quick and easy ... but probably not important.

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North of Ithaka : A Journey Home through a Family's Extraordinary Past
by Eleni N. Gage (Hardcover)
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Aleko's comments:
Had to order it from the UK, not yet released in U.S. Excellent recounting of a year in Epirus rebuilding ancestral home.