Kirjahaku

"One of the great and lasting books about Greece."Patrick Leigh Fermor"An intense and compelling account of an educated, sensitive archaeologist wandering the back country during the civil war. Half a century on, still one of the best books on Greece as it was before 'development.'"The Rough Guide to the Greek Islands"He also is in love with the countrybut he sees the other side of that dazzling medal or moonIf you want some truth about Greece, here it is."Louis MacNeice, The Observer"One of the best and most honest books about the modern Greeks."E. R. Dodds"Kevin Andrews experienced the dangers of the countryside during the civil war. The Flight of Ikaros, the book he produced from his travels, remains not only one of the greatest we have about postwar Greecememorializing a village culture that has almost vanishedbut also one of the most moving accounts I have ever read of people caught up in political turmoilFlight was first published in 1959 and last reprinted by Penguin in 1984. For too many years, this rare account has languished out of print."Wall Street JournalIn 1947, at the age of twenty-three, Kevin Andrews received a Fulbright Fellowship to study medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese. Andrews spent the long summers of 1948 to 1951 traveling through the region and the winters writing in Athens. This opportunity to travel through little-frequented areas during Greece s postwar civil warand before the advent of tourism, industrialization, or easy communicationsbrought Andrews into immediate contact with village populations, shepherd clans, and the paramilitary vigilantes who kept their own kind of order in the provinces, as well as with the displaced peasants of the Athenian slums. The close experience of all these lives took shape in The Flight of Ikaros, first published in 1959. Paul Dry Books is pleased to return to print this modern travel classic.Kevin Andrews (19241989) was a writer and archaeologist. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he attended Harvard University and then traveled to Greece on a Fulbright fellowship. In addition to The Flight of Ikaros, he wrote many other books about Greece, where he became a citizen in 1975."

The first census in 1836 of the region we now know as Victoria, revealed fourteen Catholics in the small village on the Yarra, who were meeting to say the Rosary in a cottage. Within three years a temporary Catholic Church had been built, being replaced by the original St Francis church in 1841. As Melbourne expanded, the Church established 'Missions' in the outlying rural areas of the new settlement, first at Coburg and then at Heidelberg in 1848.This book continues this remarkable story and picks up the particular history of the Heidelberg Mission and its first Parish, St John the Evangelist. From this humble beginning sprang the network of Catholic Churches and parishes throughout what is now the eastern half of metropolitan Melbourne.The Heidelberg Mission and the parish of St John the Evangelist is a fitting subject for the first monograph in a series about historic Australian churches. -- From the Foreword by Most Rev Peter A. Comensoli, Archbishop of MelbourneKevin Andrews is a former Australian parliamentarian and cabinet minister, serving the electorate of Menzies in the House of Representatives for 31 years. He and his wife, Margaret have been parishioners at St John the Evangelist, Heidelberg for four decades.