Blue Thirst: Tales of Life Abroad

A pair of lectures from one of the twentieth century's most mesmerizing speakers, the New York Times–bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet.

Lawrence Durrell was in his early twenties when, tired of the stiffness of London life, he took his family to live in Corfu. Interwar Greece, whose hard beds and mosquito swarms Durrell documented so tenderly in Prospero's Cell, was no more. In the first of this pair of lectures, given during a 1970s visit to California, Durrell recalls those days...