| In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany Contributor(s): Leavitt, David (Author), Mitchell, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1582437777 ISBN-13: 9781582437774 Publisher: Counterpoint LLC OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | Europe - Italy |
| Dewey: 914.5 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.8" W x 8.7" (0.50 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With stunning illustrations and color photographs, this expanded edition of In Maremma recounts the restoration of a dilapidated 1950s farmhouse in southern Tuscany. Beautifully written, witty, and concise, it recounts the process by which they became initiated into a part of Italian life foreigners rarely see. The pleasures of the olive harvest and picking wild asparagus are juxtaposed with the vagaries of political corruption and self-perpetuating bureaucracy. Landscape and weather provide the stuff of reverie, as do the benefits of boredom and the longing for peanut butter. A celebration and exploration of a little-known part of Italy, In Maremma is a fond if sometimes critical corrective to other more rapturous portrayals of Tuscany. |