In the Abruzzi (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Anne Macdonell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330743024 ISBN 13 : 9781330743027

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

A wild land that stands as both backdrop and heart of travel, the Abruzzi unfold in this vivid, observational account.

From Rome’s edge to the Adriatic coast, the hills and valleys shape a difficult, beautiful landscape where history, art, and daily life mingle against dramatic skies. The prose traces topography, people, and the changing access to this rugged region, inviting readers to see how wild places test and reward those who seek them.

The book surveys deep layers of culture—ancient ruins, scattered relics of great art, and the stubborn vitality of rural communities. It considers how travelers, locals, and memory intersect in places like mountain sanctuaries, feuds of old towns, and the busy rhythms of modern life meeting a landscape that remains largely pristine. Readers will meet shepherds, hermits, priests, and the ordinary visitors who wander these routes, every scene offering a window into a region that holds both challenge and charm.

• A grounded portrait of the Abruzzi’s topography and how it shapes travel
• Vivid sketches of towns, sanctuaries, and the people who keep their traditions
• Reflections on art, history, and the enduring pull of a wild, less-visited Italy
• Context on how past events and local memory color the present landscape

Ideal for readers who want a thoughtful, travel-led look at a dramatic Italian region, where nature and culture intertwine at every turn.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from In the Abruzzi

A wild land - The Abruzzi as playground and as romantic background - Earlier travellers' books - Struggle 'twixt old and new - The reception of the wandering stranger - A note on topography - The shepherds of the Abruzzi - The peasants - The Americani - Women in the Abruzzi - The future.

Looking out from Rome due eastward, beyond the nearer heights that bound the Campagna, vague shapes rise in the blue of the distance, cloudlike, part of the atmosphere that encircles the City that is a world, or, if the day so decree, clear and defined, like frontier sentinels on the watch. These masses and peaks are the rough edges of a wall that shuts in a land, strange, uncouth, primitive, little distant from Rome in mileage, incalculably distant in everything else. To cross its rugged frontier is to find yourself at but the first of its many defences against the life of to-day - the life of the plain. Penetrate but a little way, and from the higher slopes of triple-peaked Monte Velino you will descry the wonder and the terror of this land - the range upon range, the barrier on barrier, shutting off one high-pitched plain from another, making the folk of the narrow valleys and the lofty townships strangers each to each.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330743024
• ISBN 13: 9781330743027
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 346
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