My World of Islands

by Leslie Thomas (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.45

  Island is an evocative word - for one person it conjures up the magic of paradise, but for another isolation, even desolation. But islands have a romantic fascination whether they be sunlit, windswept, deserted or inhabited, mountainous or low against the sea. In writing this book, Leslie Thomas has fulfilled a lifetime ambition by journeying to and describing some of the world's most famous and romantic islands. His odyssey has taken him to islands in America, Europe, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, the Atlantic, Australia, the Orient and the Indian Ocean. He visited islands as distant and diverse as Tahiti, St Pierre et Miquelon and Oshima, as well as Capri and Corfu, often setting foot in odd places far away from the tourist trails. His personal account enables the reader to feel the special mystery and character of each unique island. Other travel books by Thomas include Some Lovely Islands and The Hidden Places of Britain .

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  Paperback
  1995

  $12.55

  Leslie Thomas' odyssey is a vivid, personal account of the most fascinating islands at the furthest reaches of the globe: to islands as distant and diverse as Saint-Pierre et Miquelon off Newfoundland and Great Barrier Island off New Zealand, and to places more familiar by name, including Nantucket, Fair Isle, Tahiti, and Capri, this journey voyages to the world's smaller places. Descriptive, evocative and liberally sprinkled with anecdotes, the book weaves together a tapestry of impressions. Beachcombing for local legends, geography, colonial history and maritime lore, Thomas' search for the mystique of these islands gives the reader a unique insight into an extraordinary and beautiful world of islands. ' My World of Islands reads as a paean to a past age...a reminder that the entire world has not yet been reduced to Frejus or Marbella' - Times Literary Supplement .