Old Calabria

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Northwestern University Press, 1996 - Всего страниц: 325
First published in 1915, Old Calabria is a comprehensive and exciting account of adventure travel. Captivated by the pagan quality of the mezzogiorno, Norman Douglas plunged into Calabria, the southernmost and most backward part of Italy (a province that was still largely devoid of any form of modern amenity). He endured extremes of climate, scaled mountains, rode in carriages driven by villainous coachmen, and traversed remote stretches of country where murderous groups of banditti were known to roam. As Jon Manchip White points out in his introduction, it "makes good reading, but it must have constituted a protracted and frightening ordeal--frightening, that is, to anyone except someone like Douglas, possessed of a more than normal share of guts and fortitude."

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SARACEN LUCERA
1
MANFREDS TOWN
9
THE ANGEL OF MANFREDONIA
15
CAVEWORSHIP
21
LAND OF HORACE
29
AT VENOSA
35
THE BANDUSIAN FOUNT
39
TILLERS OF THE SOIL
45
REPOSING AT CASTROVILLARI
115
OLD MORANO
126
AFRICAN INTRUDERS
132
UPLANDS OF POLLINO
140
A MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL
149
MILTON IN CALABRIA
158
THE GREEK SILA
172
ALBANIANS AND THEIR COLLEGE
182

MOVING SOUTHWARDS
60
THE FLYING MONK
69
BY THE INLAND SEA
75
MOLLE TARENTUM
85
INTO THE JUNGLE
93
DRAGONS
98
BYZANTINISM
103
AN ALBANIAN SEER
189
SCRAMBLING TO LONGOBUCCO
194
AMONG THE BRUTTIANS
203
CALABRIAN BRIGANDAGE
212
THE GREATER SILA
218
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Author Norman Douglas was born in Austria on December 8, 1868 and was educated in England, Germany, and France. In 1893, he joined the British Foreign Office and worked as a diplomat in Russia and Italy. He left the service in 1896 apparently as the result of an indiscreet love affair. He wrote numerous travel books and his only popular success was the novel South Wind, published in 1917. He died in 1952.

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