Italian Ways

On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'All Italy is here' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><b>From the bestselling author of <i>Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education</i> and <i>A Season with Verona</i></b><br><b>Longlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award</b></p><p>In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his adopted country's vast, various and ever-changing networks of trains.</p><p>Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians - conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants - Tim Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive. He explores how trains helped build Italy and how the railways reflect Italians' sense of themselves from Garibaldi to Mussolini to Berlusconi and beyond.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780099584254

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 128 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd