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Wild Italy
Tim Jepson
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Description for Wild Italy
Paperback. Venture beyond the great Renaissance cities of Florence and Siena, drive a short distance from Milan, Venice, Rome or Naples, and you come to another Italy, by turns lush and verdant, rugged or parched, the countryside of ancient Rome, of Dante and St Francis of Assisi. Wild Italy will take you there Illustrator(s): Lewis, Syd. Editor(s): Rigge, Simon. Series: Wild Guides. Num Pages: 224 pages, 50 colour and 45 b&w illustrations, 28 colour and b&w maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 416.
In Wild Italy, Tim Jepson leaves the well-worn tourist haunts of traditional guide books behind him in search of fresher pleasures. He offers a rural, rather than an urban Italy, revealing the best of the long walks, mountain hideaways, woods, plains, sea coasts and remote islands where travellers can still find a refuge from the modern world. He explores the whole country from its Alp-studded waist to its distant toe kicking the football of Sicily towards Africa. Like an unhurried lover, he works his way down thigh and shin, following the line of the Apennines, locating the pressure ... Read more
In Wild Italy, Tim Jepson leaves the well-worn tourist haunts of traditional guide books behind him in search of fresher pleasures. He offers a rural, rather than an urban Italy, revealing the best of the long walks, mountain hideaways, woods, plains, sea coasts and remote islands where travellers can still find a refuge from the modern world. He explores the whole country from its Alp-studded waist to its distant toe kicking the football of Sicily towards Africa. Like an unhurried lover, he works his way down thigh and shin, following the line of the Apennines, locating the pressure ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sheldrake Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Wild Guides
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
England, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781873329351
SKU
V9781873329351
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About Tim Jepson
Tim Jepson was educated at Oxford where he studied English Literature. He is the author of six books about Italy and has a particular interest in Tuscany and Umbria. He lived in Italy for five years and wrote for The Sunday Telegraph as their Rome-Italy correspondent. He has covered other areas of the world in Train Journeys of the World, ... Read more
Reviews for Wild Italy
'Readers of the second edition of Tim Jepson's gem of a book will be... thanking the author for leading them away from the obvious in Italy - the cities and galleries, the beaches - and into the wild.' - The Sunday Times. 'Beautiful photographs and excellent maps... He encourages you to visit the wilderness of the Abruzzi or experience the ... Read more