British travel writer and broadcaster Rory MacLean,author of best-selling 'Stalin's Nose' and 'Under the Dragon', has chosen Crete as the subject for his fifth book. In Apokoronas Rory and his wife Katrin have built from scratch a light, white, wood-and-fabric flying machine based on a 1907 design. Through the airplane Rory takes wing through the island, its myths, its stories and finds a warm people eager to help with even the maddest scheme. Listen out for 'Building Icarus' on BBC Radio 4 in spring 2002, and the publication of the book in 2003.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 07 October 2007 )
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