The Violins of Saint-Jacques: A Tale of the Antilles
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780719555299 (0719555299)
Publish date: April 26th 2004
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Pages no: 139
Edition language: English
Patrick Leigh Fermor has been called the greatest travel writer of his time, and I can believe it on the basis of this book alone. It's actually a very short (140 pages) novel about a fictional Caribbean island in the French Antilles called St. Jacques. Fermor's descriptions of the island and its pe...