Zen and the Art of Donkey Maintenance

Foreword
A Note from Editor
Prologue: A Hankering for Pericles Smith

Part 1: Greece
1 The Pattern of My Magic Carpet
2 Rich Beyond the Potency of Wealth
3 An Enormous Contentment
4 A Small Piece of Warm Bread Dipped in Hot Olive Oil
5 Money Itself Was Becoming Meaningless
6 This Unlikely Foreigner
7 It Was All Going a Bit Too Well
8 I Could Have Happily Wrung a Million Speckled Necks
9 What I Was Really Looking For Was a Miracle
10 A Feast to Assuage Any Sort of Hunger
11 Operation Whitewash
12 My World Was Full of Spectacle and Conundrum
13 Mugs Like Me
14 Water, Water Every Where, Nor Any Drop to Drink
15 Profuse Green Hands of Thanksgiving
16 A Wiser and Better-Equipped Man
17 I Was Due to be Haunted
18 I Taught the Children of Gythion a New Game
19 Sounds of the Sea and the Sky and the Earth
20 The One Signal Failure of My New Career
21 I Knew I Had to Come Home
22 Eat, Drink and Be Merry

Part 2: Crete
23 I Liked to Think of Myself as a Leader
24 My Travels with a Donkey
25 It Seemed like the Savoy Hotel to Me
26 An Ignorant Alien Who Didn't Know an Ass from an Elbow
27 An Explicit Manifestation of a Trackless Waste
28 I Had Seldom Felt More Alive
29 No Place to Take a Donkey for a Walk
30 Heraklion Lay Behind Me and All of Summer Lay Ahead
31 A Tradition as Old as Crete
32 Where Sea and Sky and Earth Blended in a Haze of Infinity
33 A Scene Straight from the Bible
34 I Was a Successful Experiment
35 The Ultimate Peninsula
36 The Crowd Shouted Their Approval
37 A Hell of a Day
38 A Mixture of Sadness and Joy
39 Donkey for Sale - Speaks English
40 Damnit, I Wanted to Be Recognised
41 I Was on This Small Floating Paradise
42 I Took the First Strokes of My Odyssey
43 I Became Sensitive to Such Imperceptibles
44 I Was Strangely Happy
45 The Civilising Presence

Photographs
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author
His Final Message