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25 Sep, 2020
Superb, wonderful and compelling.
I had already read almost all of Robert Macfarlane's books and was delighted to find something equally absorbing by his friend Roger Deakin. (Roger in fact chose Robert as his Literary Executor).
Thoroughly recommended to anyone who loves good literature about nature.
09 Jul, 2014
Good but not as good as I'd hoped for from a talented writer.
I had read Paul's later book about Spain "Our Lady of the Sewers" which, as a long-term working resident in a non-expat part of Spain (La Mancha), with a love of Spanish culture and language, I found fascinating, well researched, informative and wittily written: definitely 5*.
So, I bought this, his earlier work, about Ibiza. It had some good scenes but was for me (and for my family who read it too) a paler version of his style and a much weaker set of scenes/characters (by weak, I don't mean the people themselves, some were OTT hippies and clubbers, but they seemed rather cardboard outlines less than real personalities). Even his homely efforts, like trying against odds to plant a small vineyard, felt a bit pasted in, almost copying, but less successfully, the best-selling style of Peter Mayle's 'A year in Provence' of a few years before. There were some good historical snippets of information, and he has, as always, done plenty of research, but in the end it was not nearly as satisfying as the later book. I felt that that could have been the start of a really great set of travel books - he had a potential flair for it, but has, I believe, moved on to cookery writing which is of less interest at least to me. I'm no writer (an engineer) but was left a bit empty by the Ibiza book.