Inhalt: Die Handlung ist ungefähr zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts im Gebiet der großen Seen, an der kanadisch-amerikanischen Grenze, angesiedelt. Der junge Deutsche Edgar Bender ist auf der Suche nach seiner verschollenen Schwester, die bei...
Although Durrell spent much of his life beside the Mediterranean, he wrote relatively little about Italy; it was always somewhere that he was passing through on the way to somewhere else. Sicilian Carousel is his only piece of extended writing on...
On holiday, ashore with his new wife at a chateau in France, Captain Lord Ramage finds the honeymoon interrupted by an end to the Peace of Amiens — and a return to war which will last over a decade. Finding themselves on unfriendly soil just...