# Granite Island

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- Book: [Granite Island](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-carrington/granite-island) ([Granite Island.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-carrington/granite-island.md))
- Authors: [Dorothy Carrington](https://www.bookquiver.com/dorothy-carrington)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4144-227-3
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2008-05-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. GRANITE ISLAND, much more than a travel book, grew out of years spent in Corsica and is an incomparably vivid and delightful portrait. For the first time Corsica is brought to light as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom and political justice, as well as their pride, hospitality and poetry.