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Lawrence Durrell

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Noun1.Lawrence Durrell - English writer of Irish descent who spent much of his life in Mediterranean regions (1912-1990)


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This is one of the two mulberry trees in Bellapais which claim to be the famous tree of idleness, Lawrence Durrell observed that one of the most popular past-times amongst the locals was to spend many hours in idle conservation under the said tree.
The novelist Lawrence Durrell best illustrates the civilizational importance of olive oil when he writes that "no other products of nature have so much shaped civilizations from remotest antiquity to the present, than olive oil".
Lawrence Durrell (in his book Bitter Lemons of Cyprus, first published in 1957, talking about the period of 1953-56) C[pounds sterling]The water is so scarce in Cyprus that it is sold in parcels.
 
 
 
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