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Trade ReviewYou have to buy this book! It’s the perfect antidote to the cares of the world and an opportunity to indulge all latent escapist desires -- Robin Hanbury-Tenison * Country Life *
Table of ContentsForeword A Note from Editor Prologue: A Hankering for Pericles Smith Part 1: Greece 1 The Pattern of My Magic Carpet 2 Rich Beyond the Potency of Wealth 3 An Enormous Contentment 4 A Small Piece of Warm Bread Dipped in Hot Olive Oil 5 Money Itself Was Becoming Meaningless 6 This Unlikely Foreigner 7 It Was All Going a Bit Too Well 8 I Could Have Happily Wrung a Million Speckled Necks 9 What I Was Really Looking For Was a Miracle 10 A Feast to Assuage Any Sort of Hunger 11 Operation Whitewash 12 My World Was Full of Spectacle and Conundrum 13 Mugs Like Me 14 Water, Water Every Where, Nor Any Drop to Drink 15 Profuse Green Hands of Thanksgiving 16 A Wiser and Better-Equipped Man 17 I Was Due to be Haunted 18 I Taught the Children of Gythion a New Game 19 Sounds of the Sea and the Sky and the Earth 20 The One Signal Failure of My New Career 21 I Knew I Had to Come Home 22 Eat, Drink and Be Merry
Part 2: Crete 23 I Liked to Think of Myself as a Leader 24 My Travels with a Donkey 25 It Seemed like the Savoy Hotel to Me 26 An Ignorant Alien Who Didn't Know an Ass from an Elbow 27 An Explicit Manifestation of a Trackless Waste 28 I Had Seldom Felt More Alive 29 No Place to Take a Donkey for a Walk 30 Heraklion Lay Behind Me and All of Summer Lay Ahead 31 A Tradition as Old as Crete 32 Where Sea and Sky and Earth Blended in a Haze of Infinity 33 A Scene Straight from the Bible 34 I Was a Successful Experiment 35 The Ultimate Peninsula 36 The Crowd Shouted Their Approval 37 A Hell of a Day 38 A Mixture of Sadness and Joy 39 Donkey for Sale - Speaks English 40 Damnit, I Wanted to Be Recognised 41 I Was on This Small Floating Paradise 42 I Took the First Strokes of My Odyssey 43 I Became Sensitive to Such Imperceptibles 44 I Was Strangely Happy 45 The Civilising Presence
Photographs Acknowledgments A Note on the Author His Final Message
