Book description
Leslie Thomas's odyssey is a vivid, personal account of the most
fascinating islands at the furthest reaches of the globe: to islands
as distant and diverse as Saint-Pierre et Miquelon off Newfoundland
and Great Barrier Island off New Zealand, and to places more familiar
by name, including Nantucket, Fair Isle, Tahiti, and Capri, this
journey voyages to the world's smaller places.
Descriptive, evocative and liberally sprinkled with anecdotes, the
book weaves together a tapestry of impressions. Beachcombing for local
legends, geography, colonial history and maritime lore, Thomas's
search for the mystique of these islands gives the reader a unique
insight into an extraordinary and beautiful world of islands.
'My World of Islands reads as a paean to a past age... a
reminder that the entire world has not yet been reduced to Frejus or
Marbella' Times Literary Supplement
