Reflections on Blue Water

''This valedictory volume is the quintessence of [Alan] Ross, a deft and deceptively airy set of literary wanderings through a part of the Mediterranean - the islands of the south-western coast of Italy - he had known since being demobilised from the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War... Ross''s memoir is a showcase for a supremely poetic sensibility, and a naturally gifted writer with ...