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A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece

English

By (author): Peter Fiennes

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE YEAR

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022

Peter Fienness road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described Mary Beard, TLS

Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide through Greece Observer

A wonderful really profound meditation on what it means to hope a gorgeous excursion into Greece and across the centuries on an environmental quest BBC Radio 4 Open Book Book of the Year choice by Anita Roy

What do the Greek myths mean to us today?

Its now a golden age for these tales they crop up in novels, films and popular culture. But whats the modern relevance of Theseus, Hera and Pandora? Were these stories ever meant for children? And whats to be seen now at the places where heroes fought and gods once quarrelled?

Peter Fiennes travels to the sites of some of the most famous Greek myths, on the trail of hope, beauty and a new way of seeing what we have done to our world. Fiennes walks through landscapes stunning and spoiled on the trail of dancing activists and Arcadian shepherds, finds the most beautiful beach in Greece, consults the Oracle, and loses himself in the cities, remote villages and ruins of this storied land.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Oct 2021
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780861540617

About Peter Fiennes

Peter Fiennes is the author of the critically acclaimed Footnotes Oak and Ash and Thorn and To War with God. As the publisher for Time Out he nurtured a lifelong obsession with old guidebooks creating award-winning city guides walking books and titles about Britains countryside and seaside. He lives in south-west London.

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