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Mermaid Singing
- Author
- Charmian Clift
- Narrator
- Josie Taylor
- Publisher
- SAGA Egmont
- Publish Date
- 15 October 2021
- Run Time
- 8 hours 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Mermaid Singing details the culture shock and sheer delight of their first year on the tiny sponge-fishing island of Kalymnos. Clift paints an evocative picture of the characters and sun-drenched rhythms of traditional life, long before mass tourism descended.
A travel writing classic, available for the first time in twenty years with a new introduction by Polly Samson. "Mermaid Singing" is the companion volume to Peel Me a Lotus.
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Details
- Author
- Charmian Clift
- Narrator
- Josie Taylor
- Duration
- 8 hours 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 October 2021
- ISBN
- 9788728024577
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- SAGA Egmont
- Genre
- Biography & non-fiction prose, Memoirs, True stories: general, Travel & holiday
Synopsis
In 1954 Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, with children in tow, left grey post-war London for Greece.Mermaid Singing details the culture shock and sheer delight of their first year on the tiny sponge-fishing island of Kalymnos. Clift paints an evocative picture of the characters and sun-drenched rhythms of traditional life, long before mass tourism descended.A travel writing classic, available for the first time in twenty years with a new introduction by Polly Samson. "Mermaid Singing" is the companion volume to Peel Me a Lotus.-
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