Penguin Books Ltd Granite Island: Portrait of Corsica

Dorothy Carrington traveled to Corsica in 1948 on what would become the first of many visits. Granite Island is the result of her enduring fascination with the island's dramatic history, physical grandeur and enigmatic people. Conjuring a fast-vanishing world of unbroken tradition, bandits, spirits and visionaries in evocative prose, Granite Island is a valuable historical record of a highly individualistic culture and a luminous work of travel writing. A travel book that reveals Corsica 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. Autorid: Dorothy Carrington, Rolli Lucarotti