Tales from a Greek Island

Often surprising, sometimes bizarre, never dull. Roger Jinkinson takes us far offthe tourist-beaten track to explore life — and death — in a small village on aremote Greek Island. Meet the people he has come to know over 25 years — atonce traditional and modern, hard-bitten and generous, stoic and resourceful.Learn how they fish, keep bees, hunt goats, make music. Read about the manwho tried to ransom a floating crane, about the mule that outwitted theGerman army and the death of a giant. Read and you will feel the very pulseof a community as it fights to maintain its unique and vibrant culture.