

"With its humor and its fancy and its wistfulness, Desert Islands] is such a fountain of youth as no Ponce de Leon ever discovered." --New York Times "A vast treasure chest...to dazzle and fascinate everyone who lifts the lid."--Geoffrey Grigson "One...


Desert Islands opens with a captivating essay on the romance of islands and castaways in literature and life, and the associations that have arisen in the imagination of readers in every generation. The essay leads on to over 200 pages of what de la Mare himself calls 'a rambling...