Tim Parks: Italian Ways
Italian Ways
Buch
- On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
- Random House UK Ltd, 06/2014
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780099584254
- Bestellnummer: 3427437
- Umfang: 261 Seiten
- Sonstiges: w. b&w map
- Copyright-Jahr: 2014
- Gewicht: 208 g
- Maße: 198 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 5.6.2014
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
A journey around Italy by train, full of humorous and insightful observations on what the railways and their travellers reveal about the countryBeschreibung
All Italy is here Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with Verona
Longlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award
In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his adopted country s vast, various and ever-changing networks of trains.
Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants Tim Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive. He explores how trains helped build Italy and how the railways reflect Italians sense of themselves from Garibaldi to Mussolini to Berlusconi and beyond.