| ISBN |
9780732268862 (pbk) |
| Classification Number |
B CLI |
| Author |
Clift, Charmian, 1923-1969 |
| Title |
Mermaid singing : Peel me a lotus [BK] |
| Physical Description |
illustrations ; |
| Note |
Mermaid singing first published in 1956 by Michael Joeph, London. |
| Peel me a lotus first published in 1959 by Hutchinson, London. |
| First published in a one-volume edition in 2001 by Flamingo. |
| Contents |
Mermaid singing -- Peel me a lotus. |
| These two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the life she and her Australian family led in Greece in the 1950's are re-released here in one volume to coincide with the publication of Nadia Wheatley's landmark biography of Charmian. In Mermaid Singing - written during the first miraculous year of discovery - she records the family's adaptation to the primitive sponge-diving island of Kalymnos. Peel Me a Lotus continues the exploration as Clift and Johnson buy a house on the island of Hydra, in the middle of the summer tourist trail. Clift's writing about Greece was undervalued at the time of first publication, because she wrote from a women's point of view and recorded the intimate details of daily life. It is exactly this quality which enables this classic to appeal to a new generation of readers. |
| Johnston, George, -- 1912-1970 |
| Clift, Charmian, -- 1923-1969 |
| Subject |
Authors, Australian -- Greece -- Biography |
| Novelists, Australian -- Greece -- Biography |
| Journalists, Australian -- Biography |
| Australians -- Greece -- Biography |
| Autobiography |
| Writers and writing |
| Kalymnos (Greece : Municipality) -- Social life and customs |
| Kalymnos (Greece : Municipality) -- Description and travel |
| Kalymnos (Greece : Municipality) -- Description and travel |
| Kalymnos Island (Greece) -- Social life and customs |
| Hydra Island (Greece) -- Social life and customs |
| Kalymnos (Greece : Municipality) -- Social life and customs |
| Kalymnos Island (Greece) -- Description and travel |
| Hydra Island (Greece) -- Description and travel |
| Additional Author |
Clift, Charmian Peel me a lotus. |
| Additional |
Peel me a lotus |
