A Rope of Vines

Journal from a Greek Island

Brenda Chamberlain (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

165 Seiten

2009
Parthian Books (Verlag)
978-1-905762-86-6 (ISBN)

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A personal account of the time spent by the author on the Greek Island of Ydra in the early 1960's. It pictures sea and harbour, mountain and monastery, and the author's neighbours and friends.

"A Rope of Vines Journal from a Greek Island" is a beautiful and personal account of the time spent by Brenda Chamberlain on the Greek Island of Ydra in the early 1960's. Sea and harbour, mountain and monastery, her neighbours and friends are unforgettably pictured; these were the reality outside herself while within there was a conflict of emotion and warring desires. Joy and woe are woven fine in this record: the delight of a multitude of fresh experiences thronging to the senses, the suffering from which she emerges with new understanding of herself and human existence. Both in the intensity and force of the writing and the eloquent island drawings, "A Rope of Vines Journal from a Greek Island" is a distinguished achievement.

Brenda Chamberlain was born at Bangor in 1912. In 1931 she went to train as a painter at the Royal Academy Schools in London and five years later, after marrying the artist-craftsman John Petts, settled in Caernarfonshire. During the Second World War she worked with her husband on the production of the Caseg Broadsheets. In 1947 she went to live on Bardsey (Ynys Enlli) where she remained until 1961. After six years on the Greek island of Ydra, she returned to Bangor; it was there, depressed and with financial problems, she died from an overdose of sleeping tablets in 1971.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.2.2009
Reihe/Serie	Library of Wales ; v. 21
Illustrationen	Brenda Chamberlain
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Cardigan
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
ISBN-10	1-905762-86-0 / 1905762860
ISBN-13	978-1-905762-86-6 / 9781905762866
Zustand	Neuware