An affair of the heart
Powell, Dilys2019
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Dilys Powell's love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sun-baked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband, the archaeologist Humfry Payne, on the remote peninsula of Pearchora, she came to know the villagers who laboured on the site, camping beside them year after year, for months at a time. Despite personal tragedy, occupation and civil war, Powell's affair of the heart continued. She returned time and again through the '40s and '50s, and with each visit there was a reconciliation with her idyllic memories, despite the changing reality of Greece. Both with Humfry and without, she explored remote mountains in the company of shepherds, isolated stretches of coast and island with local fishermen and olive-dotted hillsides with their subsistence farmers.
Main title:
An affair of the heart / Dilys Powell ; with an afterword by Victoria Hislop.
Author:
Powell, Dilys, authorHislop, Victoria, writer of afterword
Imprint:
London : Eland, 2019.©1999
Collation:
269 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: Hodder & Stoughton, 1957.
ISBN:
9781780601564 (pbk)97817806015641780601565
Dewey class:
949.5074949.507
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
513904
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - History | 949.507 POW | Available |