A Small Place in Italy [Lingua Inglese]

Newby, Eric

ISBN 10: 0001047698 ISBN 13: 9780001047693

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1994

Riassunto

Eric Newby's earlier work "Love and War in the Appenines" described the start of his love affair with Italy. This book chronicles how his passion for Italy grew to maturity.

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L'autore:

Eric Newby was born in London in 1919. During World War II, he served in the Special Boat Section and was captured. He married the girl who helped him to escape, and for the next 50 years she was at his side on many adventures.

After the war, he worked in the fashion business and book publishing but travelled on a grand scale, sometimes as the Travel Editor for the Observer. He was made CBE and awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers. He died in 2006.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

The distinguished travel writer Eric Newby became acquainted with the landscape and the people of northern Italy when on the run from a prison camp in 1943. He and his wife dreamed of buying a house in the region, but it was not until 1967 that the opportunity to fulfil their dream presented itself. 'A Small Place In Italy' is an engaging account of the joys and frustrations of the purchase and renovation of a farmhouse, 'I Castagni' ('The Chestnuts'), and of how the Newby's gradually became part of the local community and its distinctive way of life.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0001047698
• ISBN 13: 9780001047693
• Rilegatura: Audio Cassetta