Description
Myth and legend, anecdote and fact of many centuries fill Malta’s past, and Robin Bryans has taken samples from Roman times to the amazing resistance of 1940. And importantly, the book shows how religion informs the islands’ life, no less today with its beliefs and popular saints and visions and processions than in the times following St. Paul’s shipwreck and stay on Malta. Thinking of his friends in the waterfront bars or the tiny cafés in country villages and of the bird-catchers and of the flower-covered fields of winter and of the islands’ sun and warm sea, and of the many beautiful bathing coves and beaches (all deserted in winter), Robin Bryans has tried to present the islands as they really are. Bound in turquise cloth with gilt titling to spine. Good pirce-clipped ductjacket with a little wear along the top, particularly to the spine area. Book is inscribed in ink bu original owners and dated March 1966. Some tanning and foxing, particularly to the endpapers. Overall a good clean copy. Hardcover. Published by Faber & Faber 1966
