IN THE DOLPHIN’S WAKE
Cocktails, Calamities and Caiques in the Greek Islands
by Harry Bucknall
“Anyone going on holiday to a Greek island this summer should take along this cheerful aide memoire” The Daily Mail
“…I have to tell you that I very much enjoyed it, relished its loitering, laid back style of writing as of travelling, and learnt a good deal from it along the way.” Jan Morris
“Harry Bucknall carries us by magic flights from the thousand birds of St Mark’s to the far distant Symplegades…It’s a lovely book.” Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor
This is the amusing and erudite account of Harry Bucknall’s journey through the Greek islands from Venice, in the West, to Istanbul, in the East
This book is a rich mixture of history, mythology, folklore, culture and often comedic everyday life – covering over 5,500 miles, lasting 183 days, visiting 36 islands and every island chain in the Greek Archipelago chain plus Mount Athos, Athens and the Turkish mainland; involving 57 sea passages on 35 ferries, 4 landing craft, 3 hydrofoils, 1 fishing caique plus travel by sea plane, 1 twin prop aircraft, 11 buses, 2 trains, an open top Land Rover and a duck egg blue 1961 Morris Oxford.
Link to a great review by A Common Reader http://acommonreader.org/review-dolphins-wake-harry-bucknall/
