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A Small Place in Italy
by: Eric Newby

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours 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: 45257

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - 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: 4 out of 5 stars - 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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