A Greek Island Nature Diary

Greek Island Nature Diary is a lavish journal of highly detailed watercolours and accompanying pencil drawings of flora, faunaand natural objects observed and collected during the author’s years living in Corfu and sailing the Ionian on her family’soceangoing catamaran.This evocative diary is based on the author’s notes and sketches made in remote coves, in the thickets of the littoral and in thethyme scented mountains of the interior. Alongside these studies the book includes many fascinating, informative and oftenpractical descriptions of the medicinal, olfactory and culinary uses of the wild plants found in this naturalist’s paradise. As wellas her own personal observations, the text reveals surprising links between Ancient Greek civilisation and modern medicine;references to related Greek mythology and folklore intermingle with quotations from poetry and prose associated with the plants.