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Featured on this page is the work of Corfu artists, writers, poets, and photographers, as well as the work of those who have visited the 'Emerald Isle' and graciously contributed their work to be displayed on this page. To all who commune with and/or challenge the muse, we salute you and we thank you for sharing your vision.
Three canvases by Corfu artist 'Pepino'
"Gorgona"
Watercolor by Unknown
"Monastery at Paleokastritsa"
Watercolor by Michael M. Huddleston
Three Splendid books on Corfu...
XENOS: A romantic novel of travel and self-discovery In the Grecian Isles,
by David A. Ross
Doran Seeger studied each face around the table. His newfound companion, Alarice Van Zyl, suddenly and miraculously understood Greek. Her sister, Gisela, was relying on him, he sensed, for something as yet unstated. Their Greek benefactor and friend, Modestos Thromos, yawned prodigiously, as he’d been at the dock late last night trolling for tourists. And Elena, Modestos’ discerning wife, looked anxious as she imagined the latest exploits of her debonair son.
For Doran, these once-unfamiliar images had become so compelling that he could only surmise: If I don’t tear myself away from this place immediately, I shall remain here forever, forget my concerns and responsibilities, and renounce my personal history once and for all.
Motivated to expatriate by guilt and remorse after helping to design guidance systems and smart bombs for the U. S. Military, Doran Seeger has lived the past decade in Europe. Wandering from country to country, he has encountered new societies and new ideas, yet after ten years abroad he still struggles to appease his conscience. Living in Prague and working as an underground art dealer, a chance encounter with the sister of his former lover persuades him to return to Greece, where a society that embraces real civility, not to mention a few idiosyncrasies, tenderly draws the habitual itinerant out of reticence and cynicism. With his longtime Greek friend Modestos Thromos at his side, Doran plants a winter garden; and as he patiently tills the Grecian soil, he reclaims his integrity, his sense of joy, and his humanity.
Poignant, earthy, rich in humor, honest: A Winter Garden is a seasonal harvest.
While Mount Pantokrator, on the Island of Corfu in Greece, might be a high mountain whose peak is shrouded in mystery, it will always remain a solitary peak, one to be scaled from any angle, never far from the sea. It is a great mountain, both conspicuous for its height and for its bareness above lush lowlands. Nevertheless, it can be scaled and crossed over.
The Himalayas present a mystery far greater. Each ridge crossed reveals a new peak, and these are only the foothills. They dwarf the mountains of the West. This chain of jagged, icy peaks pierces the very sky and separates the Indian subcontinent from Tibet, a land itself shrouded in mystery…
An inveterate traveler and lover of mountains and their peoples, Thomas K. Shor reveals once again the age-old dichotomy between the philosophies of West and East. First upon a mountaintop in Greece—the birthplace of Western civilization—and then in the high peaks of the Indian Himalayas, he attempts to penetrate the barriers that inhibit our understanding of each philosophy.
