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An Affair of the Heart, EPUB eBook

An Affair of the Heart EPUB

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Dilys Powell's love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sun-baked archaeological dig in 1931.

Joining her husband the archaeologist Humfry Payne on the remote peninsula of Perachora, she came to know the villagers who laboured on the site, camping beside them year after year, for months at a time. Despite personal tragedy, the occupation of Greece and civil war, Powell's affair of the heart continued.

She returned time and again through the '40s and '50s, and with each visit there was a reconciliation with her idyllic memories of the country.

Both with Humfry and without, she explored remote mountains in the company of shepherds, isolated stretches of coast and island with local fishermen and olive-dotted hillsides with the subsistence farmers who worked them.

Out of this she has fashioned a gem of a travel book.

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