The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna
- ISBN-10
- 1787302164
- ISBN-13
- 9781787302167
- Series
- The Hero's Way
- Category
- Italy, Northern
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-06-03
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Author
- Tim Parks
Description
In The Hero's Way he delivers a superb travelogue that combines a memorable portrait of Garibaldi and the country before unification with Parks's own fine observations of contemporary Italian people, politics, customs, food, and landscape"- ...
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- 2022-07-12
- 384 pages
- Paperback
- W. W. Norton
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- 384 pages
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- 2021-06-03
- 384 pages
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