“All categories of lovers should be grateful to Mr. Wagner, for Corsica has all the wild scenery the adventurer can desire . . . And yet Mr. Wagner has not written a guide book. Far from it. He calls his book an #145;elegy’ partly because he fears that the island is now doomed to become #145;another minority culture gone for good, an island conquered by campers for a few months each year.’ He writes less about the magnificent scenery of Corsica than about the character of the Corsicans . . . Here, at least, is a small part of the world that is different, and proud of it.”— Times Literary Supplement.