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Beschreibung
When I land solo on the Greek island of Hydra for two weeks in the dead of winter, I'm not chasing sunny beaches. I'm hunting a pirate - my husband's great-great-grandfather and Australia's first Greek convict.

Armed with an umbrella, a cashmere scarf, and zero Greek skills, I'm ready to conquer the archives. But Hydra has other ideas: fresh seafood, exhilarating hikes, cats, donkeys, and warm, eccentric locals. What starts as a frantic quest soon turns into a lesson in slow travel, with the bonus of a midlife reset.

"Reading Hydra in Winter is like drinking a bottomless glass of champagne - bubbly, refreshing, and bound to make you laugh." - Kyra Geddes, author of The Story Thief

Funny, warm, and sparkling, Hydra in Winter will enchant solo travellers, lovers of travel books, history buffs, Philhellenes, aspiring seadogs, procrastinating novelists, seasoned travellers and armchair adventurers, and anyone trying to keep the spark alive at any age.

"Chrónos is the measured, ticking seconds of daily life; kairós represents those rare, significant moments that transcend ordinary time. Hydra is kairós." - Shelley Dark
When I land solo on the Greek island of Hydra for two weeks in the dead of winter, I'm not chasing sunny beaches. I'm hunting a pirate - my husband's great-great-grandfather and Australia's first Greek convict.

Armed with an umbrella, a cashmere scarf, and zero Greek skills, I'm ready to conquer the archives. But Hydra has other ideas: fresh seafood, exhilarating hikes, cats, donkeys, and warm, eccentric locals. What starts as a frantic quest soon turns into a lesson in slow travel, with the bonus of a midlife reset.

"Reading Hydra in Winter is like drinking a bottomless glass of champagne - bubbly, refreshing, and bound to make you laugh." - Kyra Geddes, author of The Story Thief

Funny, warm, and sparkling, Hydra in Winter will enchant solo travellers, lovers of travel books, history buffs, Philhellenes, aspiring seadogs, procrastinating novelists, seasoned travellers and armchair adventurers, and anyone trying to keep the spark alive at any age.

"Chrónos is the measured, ticking seconds of daily life; kairós represents those rare, significant moments that transcend ordinary time. Hydra is kairós." - Shelley Dark
Über den Autor
After a lifetime raising cattle on Queensland's Granite Belt, Shelley traded the bush for the beach on the Sunshine Coast with her husband. When she's not writing novels, traveling, or capturing the world through her iPhone lens, she's marvelling at her clever grandchildren-or hunting for the perfect cream bun.A proud member of the ALLWRiTE Club, Shelley finds inspiration among a writers' group as colorful as the characters in her books. Her next novel, Son of Hydra, is set for release in 2025, followed by Daughter of Cork, the story of a pirate's wife. Whether on the page or in life, Shelley's adventures are just beginning.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781763786714
ISBN-10: 1763786714
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Dark
Hersteller: Shelley Dark Publications
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Dark
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.2024
Gewicht: 0,232 kg
Artikel-ID: 130627805