Bibliography

In my introduction I wrote: ‘Living in the wild, it has often seemed that we were living on the margins of literacy. This led to reading the landscape and learning from people’. So, you may well ask, why this formidable bibliography?

I confess I have always been devoted to the written word and to the study of languages, and books have always formed part of our baggage. The weed from which I have drawn the honey is the traditional knowledge of Mediterranean people; the books cited can be regarded as the distillation of this knowledge. Like Gertrude Stein I write ‘for myself and strangers’ and wish to share my enthusiasm for both with them.