| By Michael Carroll - Paperback: 205 pages Greek fishermen call the Northern Sporades "the Gates of the Wind" and Michael Carroll in his 30 foot sailing boat "Astarte" - designed and built in England to his own specifications, part Cornish fishing boat, part Greek caique - moved about amongst them looking for a perfect anchorage only to find that this search became a quite different kind of quest. His chance meeting and subsequent friendship with the versatile Greek, Vangeli, on the island of Skopelos, led to a far more ambitious plan to buy a piece of land. It also led to the building of a house on the shores of the remote cove of Panormos - the perfect anchorage - once the site of an ancient city. With the acquisition of the land comes the realization of what means to have roots and to be an islander. The author writes vividly of the other islands and their inhabitants; of taking part in a goat hunt, laying up "Astarte" for the winter and the actual building of the house. | ||
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| Gates of the Wind
by Carroll £7.19 The author's gradual integration with the people of Skopelos island; his dramatic and amusing part in Vangeli's election campa... |
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Gates of the Wind
