Summer in the islands : an Italian odyssey
Fort, Matthew2017
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Imagine spending a carefree summer in the Italian sun, beachcombing, eating and drinking with abandon, drifting without restraint from island to island, from port to port. 'Summer in the Islands' is the record of Matthew Fort doing just that. Traveling by Vespa and by ferry, Fort tours the islands at his leisure. He takes us to Elba, where Napoleon was once imprisoned; to Salina, famous for its capers, just as Pantelleria is famous for its dessert wine; to Pianosa, where dangerous Mafia bosses were kept and which Joseph Heller used as the setting for Catch-22; to Capri, where Maxim Gorky ran a school for revolutionaries which was visited by Lenin and Stalin - to all of Italy's 52 islands which he has never written about before.
Main title:
Summer in the islands : an Italian odyssey / Matthew Fort.
Author:
Fort, Matthew, author
Imprint:
London : Unbound, 2017.
Collation:
xv, 325 pages : map (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781783523320 (hbk)
Dewey class:
914.5914.58914.5811914.581
LC class:
DG430.2
Local class:
914.581914.5811
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1901991