Norman Douglas

Old Calabria

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Produktbeschreibung

Calabria. A dramatic peninsula of rugged mountains and windswept coastlines facing Sicily - 'the most beautiful kilometre in Italy' - wrote Gabriele d'Annunzio of its coastline. Though steeped in a rich and ancient past, Calabria had been lost from view when Norman Douglas visited in the early 1900s. Long familiar with southern Italy, the region captivated him and the wild and unspoilt landscape inspired him. Tracing a typically adventurous route from the promontory of Gargano in the north - linked in ancient times with Byzantium - to the southern tip of Aspromote, he scaled vast mountain ranges, trekked through dense forest and crossed remote and often dangerous countryside. Within Douglas' vibrant account of his adventures is woven the rich history - from Greek settlers and Roman conquerors to the powerful 'Ndrangheta organized crime family - that has shaped the land, language, culture and people of a place that Douglas grew to adore. Witty, erudite and elegant, Old Calabria is a literary classic, acclaimed as much for its sparkling prose as for its exquisite portrait of Italy's most unpredictable and colorful province.

Produktdetails

• Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Verlag: Bloomsbury YA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 134mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781848851139
• ISBN-10: 1848851138
• Artikelnr.: 28895606

Autorenporträt

Norman Douglas

Inhaltsangabe

I Saracen Lucera II Manfred's Town III The Angel of Manfredonia IV
Cave-Worship V Land of Horace VI At Venosa VII The Bandusian Fount VIII
Tillers of the Soil IX Moving Southwards X The Flying Monk XI By the Inland
Sea XII Molle Tarentum XIII Into the Jungle XIV Dragons XV Byzantinism XVI
Reposing at Castrovillari XVII Old Morano XVIII African Intruders XIX
Uplands of Pollino XX A Mountain Festival XXI Milton in Calabria XXII The
'Greek' Sila XXIII Albanians and their College XXIV An Albanian Seer XXV
Scrambling to Longobucco XXVI Among the Bruttians XXVII Calabrian
Brigandage XXVIII The Greater Sila XXIX Chaos XXX The Skirts of Montalto
XXXI Southern Saintliness XXXII Aspromonte, the Cloud-gatherer XXXIII
Musolino and the Law XXXIV Malaria XXXV Caulonia to Serra XXXVI Memories of
Gissing XXXVII Cotrone XXXVIII The Sage of Croton XXXIX Midday at Petelia
XL The Column Index