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Name: Italian Ways

Full name: Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails From Milan to Palermo

Author: Tim Parks
Year: 2013
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Travel
Culture: Italy

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ISBNs:
9780393348828
9780393239324
0393348822
0393239322

'All Italy is here' Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with Verona Longlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his adopted country's vast, various and ever-changing networks of trains. Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians ' conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants ' Tim Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive. He explores how trains helped build Italy and how the railways reflect Italians' sense of themselves from Garibaldi to Mussolini to Berlusconi and beyond.

This book is part of the "Italy and Italians" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"A Season with Verona"
First published in 2002
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"An Italian Education"
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