Reflections on Blue Water: Journeys in the Gulf of Naples and in the Aeolian Islands

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Reflections on Blue Water: Journeys in the Gulf of Naples and in the Aeolian Islands

2012 | Travel

"This valedictory volume is the quintessence of [Alan] Ross, a deft and deceptively airy set of literary wanderings through a part of the Mediterranean - the islands of the south-western coast of Italy - he had known since being demobilised from the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War...Ross' memoir is a showcase for a supremely poetic sensibility, and a naturally gifted writer with an unerring eye for detail, reporting on his experience with an infectiously joyous lyricism". (Eldon King, "Observer") "A fund of associative literary information that could only have been amassed by a passionate reader. Gorky, Ibsen, Rilke, DH Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, Pablo Neruda and scores more wrote in or near Ischia; Ross describes their books and their lives with detailed succinctness, en route dipping in and out of his own thoughts and travel observations". (Helen Simpson, "Guardian").



Published by Faber & Faber

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ISBN 9780571296163
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