An Island Apart - Travels in Evia by Wheeler, Sara - 1992

London: Little Brown, 1992. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price-clipped 290 pages. 19 photographs. The marvellous account of the author's five month journey in 1990 in Evia, ancient Euboea in classical history and for many centuries known as Negroponte, the second largest Greek island, which remains almost unknown to modern travellers and tourists. She observes the age old rural traditions of village communities colliding with the Western culture overtaking a bewildered Greece, a world that is fading, to be replaced by nothing. The idiosyncratic journey encompasses a goatherd's wedding, early Bronze Age excavations, sheep heads in the sink, disastrous rendezvous with unlikely men and theological persecution by Orthodox nuns who are bent on converting her. D4C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.