Showing Granite Island: a Portrait of Corsica by Dorothy Carrington

Paperback. Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 384 Publisher: Penguin Classics 'Get away from here before you're completely Bewitched and Enslaved ...' Dorothy Carrington was told while sitting in a fisherman's Cafe at The magically quiet midday hour . But enslaved she was. Granite Island. much more than a travel book. grew out of years spent in Corsica and is an incomparably vivid and delightful portrait. For the first time Corsica is ought to light as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom and political justice. as well as their pride. hospitality and poetry.