Richard Clark
ASIN: B00MWTGXDU
Publisher: (August 20, 2014)
Pages: 305
This new edition of Richard Clark’s Crete – A Notebook is an updated version of his bestselling book, taking in any necessary changes since it first came out in 2012.Praise for Crete – A Notebook‘Clark is particularly good on the colours, flavours and scents of Greece. He has got under the skin of the place in a way few outsiders have been able to.’Mark Hudson – Winner Somerset Maugham Award, Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, Samuel Johnson Prize. Bestselling author of Our Grandmothers’ Drums; Coming Back Brockens; The Music in My Head; Titian: The Last Days‘I was really surprised and delighted by the book. I read every word. The author is a fine writer and describes the island vividly. It's not a guidebook although there's a lot of information here that should be in any good guidebook. He travels around the island in clockwise direction, writing short essays as he goes, which are a mix of ...