The White Island
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Published:1st Jun '05
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The White Island is, and always has been, a magnet for hedonists. Its history reads like a history of pleasure itself. It is also a story of invasions and migrations, of artists and conmen, of drop-outs and love-ins.
The Carthaginians established a cult to their goddess of sex there, and named the island after Bez, their god of dance. Roman centurions in need of a bit of down time between campaigns would go to Ibiza to get their kicks. And over the centuries, cultures around the Med have used the island either as a playground or a dump for the kind of people who didn't quite fit in back home, but who you'd probably quite like to meet at a party...
This is the history of Ibiza, the fantasy island, framed by one long, golden summer where anything can happen - and it usually does.
'Lively, well-researched ramble through the island's frenetic history' * Time Out *
'An honest and amiable account of the oddball history of this little land of extraordinary sunsets' * Daily Telegraph *
'A history of the ultimate party island which shows that the hedonists who flock there haven't always been the Union Jack-shorted variety' * Glamour *
'Essential Summer reading. Keenly observed and sprinkled with a wealth of delicious titbits' * Q *
ISBN: 9780552771894
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: 246g
352 pages