MANUS WILLARD

THIS WAY TO PARADISE
Willard Manus's memoir of the thirty-five years he and his Scottish wife and two children spent in the Greek island village of Lindos is one of the best books about Greece ever written. Its portraits of the villagers and of the foreigners living side by side with them - people such as the humorist S. J. Perelman, the Pink Floyd Band, the novelists Richard Hughes and Martha Gellhorn, among others - are vivid and memorable. Its description of how Lindos went from island backwater to artists' colony to Aegean mass tourist beauty spot is maste...
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