Wild Italy : A Traveller's Guide

Regular price
Unit price
per
Compare to estimated retail price: RM75.00 MYR  

Escape modern world, explore rural Italy.

Wild Italy is a book for travelers seeking refuge from the modern world. Tim Jepson offers a unique perspective on Italy, exploring rural and remote areas rather than typical tourist hotspots. He takes readers on a journey from the Alps to the southern coast, revealing breathtaking landscapes and hidden gems along the way. The book is perfect for those who want to escape the hustle and bustle of city life and discover the beauty of rural Italy.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Wild Italy : A Traveller's Guide

Regular price
Unit price
per
Compare to estimated retail price: RM75.00 MYR  
Condition guide

Save 10% On This Item as a Thryft Club Member

Join Thryft Club for S$30/year and enjoy 10% off everything, plus S$10 off your first order. Join now →

ISBN: 9781873329351
Authors: Tim Jepson
Publisher: Sheldrake Press
Date of Publication: 2005-01-21
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Travel
Goodreads rating: 4.0
(rated by 1 readers)

Description

In Wild Italy , Tim Jepson leaves the well-worn tourist haunts of traditional guide books behind him in search of fresher pleasures. He offers a rural, rather than an urban Italy, revealing the best of the long walks, mountain hideaways, woods, plains, sea coasts and remote islands where travelers can still find a refuge from the modern world. He explores the whole country from its Alp-studded waist to its distant toe kicking the football of Sicily towards Africa. Like an unhurried lover, he works his way down thigh and shin, following the line of the Apennines, locating the pressure points between continental and peninsular Italy, pinching to see where the prosperous north gives way to the Mediterranean south, looking for those last empty stretches of littoral, down one side and up the other, where the bathers have yet to set up their parasols. Having lived in Rome and trekked the entire peninsula, Tim Jepson knows the secret places that are as oxygen to a suffocating man after the murderous drive through the suburbs of Milan or Naples. He has picked out the loveliest spots in Sicily and Sardinia and plotted the last few pinpricks of Italian territory, the scattered islands off the Tunisian coast which are some of the most isolated and primitive places in Europe. An extensive knowledge of, and deep passion for wild Italy are reflected in Jepson's writing. "One view of a cypress tree or stone farm-house and we are entranced," he writes, "overcome by that longing for the warm south which Icelanders describe nicely as 'the need for figs'."
 

Escape modern world, explore rural Italy.

Wild Italy is a book for travelers seeking refuge from the modern world. Tim Jepson offers a unique perspective on Italy, exploring rural and remote areas rather than typical tourist hotspots. He takes readers on a journey from the Alps to the southern coast, revealing breathtaking landscapes and hidden gems along the way. The book is perfect for those who want to escape the hustle and bustle of city life and discover the beauty of rural Italy.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.