Description
Academic and author John Dillon is renowned for his broad-reaching academic works and a novel, The Scent of Eucalyptus. His last title, however, saw him team up with his wife, artist Jean Dillon, to deliver a refreshing edit of their expansive travel diaries down the years.
In their follow-up tome, Being There Too, Jean and John Dillon write about travelling in the latter decade of the twentieth century and into the mid-noughties.
Covering peregrinations from chilly Moscow to the sunnier historic sites of Corsica, or taking us from Latvia to Japan and on to Australia, Jean’s keen nature-loving eye provides details of the flora and fauna, as John records how the classical times have survived, despite the ravages of mass tourism. At the heart of the journeys, as always, is Katounia, on the island of Euboea in Greece.