The Single Travel Book That Changed My Life

When travel isn’t possible, the imagination can still wander

The coast of Corfu and the location of the shrine of Saint Arsenius, a favourite swimming spot of Lawrence Durrell. Photo by author.

When travel is not possible, we can always turn to the voyages told in books.

And that’s just what I’ve been doing recently, as a way of escaping the confines of my house. I’ve been to the Greek island of Corfu with the English writer Lawrence Durrell, who lived…