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The Violins of Saint Jacques - Patrick Leigh Fermor, Simon Winchester
The Violins of Saint Jacques
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780192818775 (0192818775)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 156
Edition language: English
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5.0 Patrick Leigh Fermor's "The Violins of St. Jacques"
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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...
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The Violins of Saint-Jacques: A Tale of the Antilles - Patrick Leigh Fermor
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