Granite Island – A Portrait of Corsica –

“… But enslaved she was. Granite Island, much more than a travel book, grew out of years spent in Corsica and is an incomparably vivid and delightful portrait.

Recounting the archaic beliefs of rural Corsica, with its witchcraft and its vendetta system, viewing Genoese architecture, or commenting on the modern ‘pleasure invasion’, Dorothy Carrington at the same time magnificently evokes the scenery: the mountains and olive trees, the heady scent of the maquis and the austere beauty of the granite villages.

Here too, for the firs time Corsica is brought to light as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom and political justice, as well as their pride, hospitality and poetry.”