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Naples, What Most Tourists Never See
by: Richard Lamb

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 6 to 9 days Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 914.5730493
EAN: 9780973754506
ISBN: 0973754508
Label: Cybercom Inc
Manufacturer: Cybercom Inc
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: October 01, 2005
Publisher: Cybercom Inc
Studio: Cybercom Inc
Sales Rank: 225124

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- Dire - do not waste your money
I have to agree with the review submitted by Basil. The editing of this book is so poor as to make it virtually unreadable - idiosyncratic punctuation is putting it mildly. The author and/or editor have no idea how to use commas and parentheses, the book is littered with spelling mistakes and there is inconsistent spelling of place names. Furthermore, although the introduction says that the author's last trip abroad was to visit Naples and that he died in 1999 shortly after completion of the manuscript, there are comments, descriptions & references in the book which tend to suggest that the information was compiled rather earlier than the late 1990's. For example, the railway station for the site at Herculaneum is named as "Pugliano in ... Read More:

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- A book and its cover.
This is one book that deserves to be judged by its cover. It's a view of dull masonry walls - some brick apparent, and a lot of grey mortar, on a grey day. The photograph isn't even in focus. It may be a corner of Pompeii, but the publisher forgot, or didn't think it necessary to inform us. Not a promising start to the guide that is going to tell us what most tourists to Naples never see.
Sadly, the front cover is of a piece with the overall production standards. Richard Lamb has been woefully served by his editors: no illustrations (fuzzy or otherwise); not a street-plan nor a map; sloppy type-setting; occasional mis-spellings; idiosyncratic punctuation, notably in the use of commas and near-total absence of hyphens; no bibliography; an ... Read More:

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- Naples – What most tourists never see” by Richard A. Lamb
It is only a few months ago that there was published about Venice the highly successful “the City of Falling Angels” by John Berendt. Now there has been published about Naples at the other end of Italy “Naples – What most tourists never see” by the late distinguished historian Richard Lamb. His last work and plainly a labour of love, it has been published posthumously. It is written in a very different style from John Berendt’s book but is equally gripping.

Perhaps the two best books about Naples published in English in the 20th Century were “The Gallery” by John Horne Burns and “Naples ‘44” by Norman Lewis, both the product of wartime experiences in Naples. That was then. Fifty years on Richard Lamb has added ... Read More:

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