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Tuesday, 29 August 2017

Zakynthos Fires



Fire burns on Zakynthos for third day. eKathimerini


Government Minister Claims Arson is Behind Zakynthos Fires, Greek Reporter


From KTG - Local authorities speak of “arson mafia” behind the fires on Zakynthos


More photos, KTG


Greece warns “no change in forest use and forest maps” because of wildfires, KTG


Μηνυτήρια αναφορά και «πάγωμα» της επένδυσης στη Ζάκυνθο από την AL RAYYAN του Κατάρ, Kathimerini



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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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