Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
By Tim Parks.
Description
The best-selling author of Italian Neighbors returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life―by riding its trains. Tim Parks’s books on Italy have been hailed as "so vivid, so packed with delectable details, [they] serve as a more than decent substitute for the real thing" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, in his first Italian travelogue in a decade, he delivers a charming and funny portrait of Italian ways by riding its trains from Verona to Milan, Rome to Palermo, and right down to the heel of Italy. Parks begins as any traveler might: "A train is a trai...
ISBN(s)
0393239322, 9780393239324