Skyros Skyros Sunshine for the Soul: A Celebration of 40 years of Skyros

Andricopoulos, Yannis

Skyros Books

This is a personal journey through history and politics on the back of the narrator's own experiences in the two countries he has come to love most: Greece and England. The impact of momentous events over the years on everyday lives and the ensuing struggle for survival are vividly, poetically and also humorously portrayed. So are his generation's dreams and doubts, illusions and disillusionments, hopes and despair. The story does not fail to highlight the need for a new, radical vision to help us resist the dispiriting cynicism of our times and face the future with confidence. This, among other things, takes the narrator to Skyros, 'the first and still the best' alternative holiday, where hundreds of Europeans confirm every year their commitment to fundamental human priorities and values. A telling, informed and revealing account of a man's life whose sense of history, myth and politics are a powerful and sometimes toxic mix. The book, with literary references that enrich personal insights, will appeal to anyone whose life paradoxically both swims with and struggles against larger shaping forces. It will also be of interest to students of popular culture.

History, Politics and Dreams

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Grosvenor House Publishing Limited

<p>Globalism endowed us with McDonald's, 'the world's local bank’, English football teams without English players and an irrepressible desire for more as enough is never good enough – the blanket is always too short. Our personal world as much as our social and political realities seem to have blithely surrendered to the madness of a civilization which views anything from corporate greed and global warming to military adventures and religious fundamentalism as normal as a door banging in the wind. The destructive capabilities of our age have run too far ahead of our wisdom. However, the process is not irreversible if our thinking can postpone its retirement. In Bed with Madness is 'a well-argued, powerful and profound indictment of contemporary culture’, stylishly written – a reviewer said he would have bought it just for its humour!</p>

In Bed with Madness: Trying to Make Sense in a World That Doesn't

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Societas

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