This Way to Paradise: Dancing on the Tables

American author Willard Manus and Scottish wife Mavis went to the village of Lindos on the Greek Island of Rhodes in 1961, intending to stay 3 days. Instead they stayed 35 years! This Way to Paradise — Dancing on the Tables portrays not only the Greek villagers they became friendly with but such foreigners as the Pink Floyd band, the humorist S.J. Perlman, the novelists Richard Hughes and Martha Gellhorn and many others. The book describes how Lindos went from an island backwater to artists’ colony to mass Aegean tourist beauty spot. The reviewer Andrew Horton called This Way to Paradise one of the best books ever written about the Greek Islands.