In Calypso's Thrall: An American's Decade in a Greek Village

ISBN-10
0977180603
ISBN-13
9780977180608
Category
Corfu Island (Greece)
Pages
349
Language
English
Published
2004
Author
George Hellyer

Description

Corfu (Kerkyra), Greece. Village families, life and customs, The author, a San Francisco lawyer, abroad for a year, finds himself on Corfu, becomes enthralled with island life, enters into a labyrinthine arrangement with an aging aristocrat to buy his villa, and eventually settles into the village where he experiences the rich variety of life and customs in a small Greek village and learns a great deal about the village people and history.

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