Falling for Icarus: A Journey Among the Cretans - Hardcover

MacLean, Rory

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670914835 ISBN 13: 9780670914838

Publisher: London : Penguin Viking, 2004

Synopsis

Physical description: 304 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: MacLean, Rory — Travel — Greece — Crete.

About this title

About the Author:

Rory MacLean is a writer, broadcaster, blogger, and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His eight books, including UK bestsellers Stalin's Nose and Under the Dragon, have challenged and invigorated travel writing and, according to the late John Fowles, are among works that “marvellously explain why literature still lives.” He has won awards from the Canada Council and the Arts Council of England as well as a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary prize. He has written and presented over 50 BBC radio programs and worked on movies with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie. Born in Canada and resident for many years in Britain, Rory now divides his time between London and Berlin.

Review:

“The heart-warming evocation of one man’s loving obsession: lyrical, funny, compassionate” --Colin Thubron, travel writer and novelist “Rory MacLean is one of the most strikingly original and talented travel writers of our generation” -- Katie Hickman, bestselling author and travel writer “An extraordinary work, curious and entertaining, tantilizing, often moving and above all entirely original – like everything MacLean writes, it’s in a genre of its own” -- Jan Morris, author, journalist, and travel writer
 

About this edition

• Publisher: London : Penguin Viking
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0670914835
• ISBN 13: 9780670914838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1