Sicilian Carousel

Sicilian Carousel by Durrell, Lawrence. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780670643622.

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 the country and, naturally enough for the islomaniac Durrell, it focuses on one of Italys islands. Sicilian Carousel came relatively late in Durrells career, and is based around a slightly fictionalized bus tour of the island.