Acknowledgements

MY thanks are due to the late

Norman Douglas and to his
publishers Messrs Chapman & Hall
and Messrs Secker and Warburg for
permission to include the recipe
from Birds and Beasts of the Greek
Anthology and the extracts from
South Wind respectively; also to
Messrs Faber & Faber for two
extracts from Prospero’s Cell by
Lawrence Durrell; to John Lane
(The Bodley Head) for a quotation
from The Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas by Gertrude Stein; to Messrs