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Out of the sea as if Homer himself had arranged it for me the islands bobbed up lonely deserted mysterious in the fading light Enraptured by a young womans account of the landscapes of Greece Henry Miller set off to explore the Grecian countryside with his friend Lawrence Durrell in 1939 In The Colossus of Maroussi he describes drinking from sacred springs nearly being trampled to death by sheep and encountering the flamboyant Greek poet Katsumbalis who could galvanize the dead with his talk This lyrical classic of travel writing represented an epiphany in Millers life and is the book he would later cite as his favourite One of the five greatest travel books of all time Pico Iyer
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Henry Miller (1891-1980) is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. His best-known novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, 1949, Plexus, 1953, and Nexus, 1959), all published in France and banned in the US and the UK until 1964. He is widely recognised as an irreverent, risk-taking writer who redefined the novel and made the link between the European avant-garde and the American Beat generation.
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