In Maremma

Life and a House in Southern Tuscany

David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2011
Counterpoint (Verlag)
978-1-58243-777-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Now with stunning illustrations and color photographs, this newly expanded edition of In Maremma recounts David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell's restoration of a dilapidated 1950s farmhouse in southern Tuscany. Beautifully written, witty, and concise, it recounts the process by which they became initiated into a part of Italian life foreigners rarely see. The pleasures of the olive harvest and picking wild asparagus are juxtaposed with the vagaries of political corruption and self-perpetuating bureaucracy. Landscape and weather provide the stuff of reverie, as do the benefits of boredom and the longing for peanut butter. A celebration and exploration of a little-known part of Italy, In Maremma is a fond if sometimes critical corrective to other more rapturous portrayals of Tuscany.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2011
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 121 x 222 mm
• Gewicht: 369 g
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
• Themenwelt: Reiseführer ► Europa ► Italien
• ISBN-10: 1-58243-777-7 / 1582437777
• ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-777-4 / 9781582437774
• Zustand: Neuware