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At the Top of the Mule TrackLangatha is a white hill village on the Greek island of Amorgos in the Eastern Aegean. No foreigner had lived in it until Carola Matthews arrived there in the summer of 1966 to complete her first book, also on Greece, The Mad Pomegranate Tree. Having come to know its people and feel at home among them she returned two years later to write about what has become a regular experience. Hardback edition. Very good condition. 1971.

and in spite of the disasters and injustices which have marked her history since the foundation

and all quotations from Greek are provided with an English translation

the foundation of any modern democracy

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years

Όσο εντείνεται η μάχη για επιβίωση

Whether fighting corruption

Many basic and essential words in modern Greek are repeated in different chapters of the book so that every reader can memorize them easily

the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates

Generations of philosophers

Several of these documents have been obtained directly from the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence

Σε κάποια γωνιά της πόλης

Yet in brilliance of description and depth of insight this history has no superior