Old Calabria (Marlboro Travel) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Douglas, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810160226 ISBN 13: 9780810160224

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 1996

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Book by Douglas Norman

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First published in 1915, Old Calabria is a comprehensive and exciting account of adventure travel. Captivated by the pagan quality of the mezzogiorno, Norman Douglas plunged into Calabria, the southernmost and most backward part of Italy (a province that was still largely devoid of any form of modern amenity). He endured extremes of climate, scaled mountains, rode in carriages driven by villainous coachmen, and traversed remote stretches of country where murderous groups of banditti were known to roam. As Jon Manchip White points out in his introduction, it "makes good reading, but it must have constituted a protracted and frightening ordeal--frightening, that is, to anyone except someone like Douglas, possessed of a more than normal share of guts and fortitude.". NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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First published in 1915, Old Calabria is one of the most comprehensive and exciting accounts of adventure travel in this century. Captivated by the cheerfully pagan quality of the mezzogiorno, as he understood it, Douglas plunged into Calabria, the southernmost and most backward part of Italy (a province that was still largely devoid of any form of modern amenity). He endured extremes of climate, scaled mountains, rode in rickety carriages driven by villainous coachmen, and traversed remote stretches of country where murderous groups of banditti were known to roam.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0810160226
• ISBN 13: 9780810160224
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352