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A Small Place in Italy by: Eric Newby List Price: £7.99 City Travel Guides Price: £5.99 You Save: £2.00 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 914 EAN: 9780330338189 ISBN: 0330338188 Label: Picador Manufacturer: Picador Number Of Pages: 225 Publication Date: June 09, 1995 Publisher: Picador Studio: Picador Sales Rank: 65121 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Meets a market need perfectly.The urge to escape the comforts, routine and refinements of our living conditions to somewhere more challenging, primitive and raw is something that many of us feel - especially those who read books. The books we read can sometimes stimulate the urge, sometimes satisfy it. All I ask of such books is that the author can write well and that he is not boastful. Eric Newby, especially in "A Small Place in Italy", meets these requirements admirably. Indeed, he ranks for me as a travel writer of near genius. He was almost 50 years old when he and his Italian born wife Wanda took up permanent residence in a ruined farmhouse in northern Italy. His account of the trials and tribulations that followed, the neighbours and the locality, ... Read More: Rating:  - Rural Italy with reality adn delight.Transports one to rural Italy, a few decades ago.Pleasure and pain of restoring an old house, with the constant background of rural Italian life. Having read the book, one starts to think "I wonder if I could get a small place in Italy?" But be warned, it might just happen!! |
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