Exploring the Soul of the Aegean: An Odyssey

The writer stayed successful unspoiled villages and upland retreats of the Aegean.  Anavatos, Chios island. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Vgargan / CC BY SA 4-0

USA Today bestselling writer Kathryn Gauci precocious released a caller book, An Aegean Odyssey: A Memoir, which chronicles her travel crossed Greece.

After much than 30 years arsenic a palmy carpet and textile designer, Gauci decided it was clip for a change: she wanted to go an author, and the archetypal spot she turned for inspiration was Greece, wherever she had worked arsenic a carpet decorator successful Athens successful the 1970s.

With nary thought of what she would constitute about, she took 2 months disconnected and returned successful 2005 successful hunt of a caller adventure. All she knew was that she wanted to find the aged Greece that was rapidly disappearing done modernization and tourism.

The caller publication was released successful September by Ebony Publishing. Photo provided

An Aegean Odyssey: Discovering the quality of Greece

It was a large leap of religion to marque this alteration successful midlife, yet not being 1 to miss an opportunity, she packed her bags and acceptable retired alone, hoping to observe the quality and affluent tapestry of characters that had inspired specified large writers of the past, similar Nikos Kazantzakis, Lord Byron, Henry Miller, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Odysseus Elytis, and Homer himself.

Returning home, Gauci meticulously organized and recorded her notes, but didn’t consciousness that the clip was close for that story. But ideas were brewing. Inspired by Greece and that extended solo trip, eighteen months later, she began enactment connected her archetypal humanities novel, The Embroiderer (Ebony Publishing, 2014). The story, acceptable successful Athens, weaves unneurotic her experiences surviving successful Greece, arsenic good arsenic her fascination for Greek and Asia Minor history—something she acquired erstwhile she lived there.

Since then, she’s won aggregate awards for her enactment and is present a USA Today Bestselling Author. Over the years, she’s enjoyed speechmaking Greek question memoirs but felt nary recounted a travel similar hers.

“And now, having had much acquisition arsenic a writer, the timing felt right,” Gauci added. There’s different crushed to stock the communicative now. “I privation readers, peculiarly women successful mediate age, to cognize that traveling on whitethorn consciousness daunting, but it tin besides pb to a rebirth and you volition beryllium each the richer for it.”

The publication follows her travel exploring the Aegean Islands

An Aegean Odyssey follows her travel exploring the centuries-old mastic villages of Chios; the land of Lesbos, with its immense landscapes of olive groves and purveyors of the world’s finest ouzo; Karpathos, with its stunning beaches and crystal-clear turquoise waters; and finally, the majestic mountains and gorges of Crete, location of the God Zeus, the fable of the Minotaur, and that celebrated Cretan tone of Zorba – the aforesaid tone that fought against the Ottomans and the Germans successful World War II.

Staying successful unspoiled villages and upland retreats, she besides discovers the mouth-watering determination nutrient cooked successful the age-old tradition. Along the way, she finds her ain communicative – and discovers that a portion of Greece volition ever beryllium embedded successful her psyche.

Book reviews

An Aegean Odyssey has already garnered galore five-star reviews, including those from chap memoirists.

“An Aegean Odyssey isn’t conscionable a memoir. It’s a past book. A question journal. A taste record. A living, breathing representation of the Aegean soul,” said Shelley Dark, writer of Hydra successful Winter.

Of the book, Peter Barber, writer of ‘The Parthenon Series’, said “An Aegean Odyssey captures thing rare: the essence of Greece that tourists seldom see, but which lives successful each thoroughfare corner, each sheet of food, and each enactment of philotimo. Read it. You’ll sensation the honey, odor the oversea air, and recognize Greece successful a mode that stays with you agelong aft the past page.”

Gauci is already moving connected her adjacent humanities novel, acceptable successful WWII Malta, and plans connected much novels acceptable successful Greece.

For much accusation connected Kathryn Gauci and her books, sojourn https://www.kathryngauci.com/.