Description
The book is a 184-page hardback with 43 Lear paintings, 230 photographs and 30 maps. Venetian Corfu and Edward Lear's paintings illustrates where you can find images of 400 years of Venetian rule and Britain's 50-year mandate. Edward Lear, famous for his comic writing, painted the island nearly 200 years ago.
Table of Contents
CORFU TOWN From Venice to Corfu Venice Introduction Adriatic Approaching Corfu Corfu Channel From Market to Town Road to Market New Fortress Tenedos Church Jewish Quarter of Corfu Metropolitan Church of Corfu Edward Lear walks to the Palace Edward Lear Antivouniotissa Church Campielo to Reading Society Faliraki Palace of St. Michael and St. George Garden of the People The Biggest Square in the Balkans Panagia Mandrakina Boschetto Spianada Liston Maitland Rotunda To the end of Lear’s Cannon Walk Garitsa Bay Jason and Sosipatros Paleopolis Mon Repos Analypsis Kanoni LEAR ON THE CORFU TRAIL The South of the Island Paxos Arkoudilas Monastery Nikos’ House in Lefkimmi Agios Nikolaos Gardiki The Centre of the Island Below Vouniatades Agios Mattheos from Strongili Stavros Agii Deka Gastouri Garouna The West Coast Myrtiotissa Paleokastritsa St. Simeon Angelokastro Where Odysseus landed The North of the Island Hokus Pokus Oligarchs go to Spartilas The Durrells and my brother Peter Global Warming? A happy Ending
