On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal

by Mary Taylor - Simeti (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $4.58

  This volume offers the journal of a year in the life of Mary Taylor Simeti who has lived in Sicily since 1962, her pespective and prose aim to capture the spirit of this mythical land. Mary Taylor Simeti brings to life the sights, sounds and endless contradictions of Sicily, whether she's showing the reader its formidable landscapes, its most colourful religious pageants, or the site where Demeter is said to have witnessed the goddess Persephone's abduction into the Underworld.

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  Paperback
  1988

  $3.84