Aug 11, 2022
No one waxes poetic about rivers or Harry Brewster himself like Peter Levi in The River Gods of Greece …
One begins to see in the mythology as well as the geography of all these rivers that they have distinct personalities and different tones.
I do not suppose anyone but Harry Brewster has visited all these rivers, and we shall be condemned to envy him until we have equalled him.
What gives life in these pages is the vigorous mobility of water, its speed and slowness and its charm in light and shadow, affecting us — as it affects so much of the best Greek landscape - by secrecy and by contrast.
