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" Snowball oranges : "
Peter Kerr.
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BL
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968736
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b723106
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| Main Entry
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Kerr, Peter,1940-
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Snowball oranges : : one Mallorcan winter /\ Peter Kerr.
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Chichester :: Summersdale,, 2000.
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Summersdale travel
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1 online resource (315 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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1282041274
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: 1423745353
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: 1840248467
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: 9781282041271
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: 9781423745358
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: 9781840248463
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| Abstract
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Look! The weather has come from Scotland to welcome you to Mallorca, ' beamed Senor Ferrer. To our new neighbour's delight and my dismay, a cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our newly acquired paradise in the sun into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges. It's the stuff of dreams. A Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and 'experiences', and it isn't long before they realise that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners. However, laughter is the best medicine when confronted with consuming a local dish of rats, the live-chicken-down-a-chimney technique of household maintenance and attending a shotgun wedding. The colourful set of Mallorcan neighbours (including an eccentric old goatherd who eats worm-ridden oranges to improve his sex life) restores the family's faith in human nature and helps them adapt to a new and unexpectedly testing life in this deceptively simple idyll of rural Spain. Full of life and colour, hilarious and revealing, and set against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Mallorca.
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Kerr, Peter,1940-Homes and haunts-- Spain-- Majorca.
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Kerr, Peter,1940-
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
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HISTORY.
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Homes.
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Manners and customs.
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Majorca (Spain), Social life and customs, 20th century.
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Spain, Majorca.
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946/.754/083
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SB370.O7K47 2000.eb
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