Tales from a Greek Island

Often surprising, sometimes bizarre, never dull. Roger Jinkinson takes us far offthe tourist-beaten track to explore life - and death - in a small village on aremote Greek Island. Meet the people he has come to know over 25 years - atonce traditional and modern, hard-bitten and generous, stoic and resourceful.Learn how they fish, keep bees, hunt goats, make music. Read about the manwho tried to ransom a floating crane, about the mule that outwitted theGerman army and the death of a giant. Read and you will feel the very pulseof a community as it fights to maintain its unique and vibrant culture.

Set on the author's native Aegean island of Skiathos, these twelve stories capture the folkways of Greece. With acute observation of daily activities and loving descriptions of land and sea, Papadiamantis portrays the beauty and harshness of traditional island life. His prose captivates a reader with its rich combination of realism and symbolism, sensuality and mysticism, insularity and universality. Written near the turn of the century, these works speak today in ways both remarkable and familiar.