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Can I read Summer in the Islands : An Italian Odyssey on EtoBox?

Summer in the Islands : An Italian Odyssey by Matthew Fort is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Summer in the Islands : An Italian Odyssey about?

Imagine spending a carefree summer in the Italian sun, beachcombing, eating and drinking with abandon, drifting without restraint from island to island, from port to port. Summer in the Islands is the record of Matthew Fort doing just that in his third Italian voyage on a Vespa – first down the length of Italy in Eating Up Italy , then around Sicily in Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons , and now hopping between the Aeolian Islands, something he hadn’t done since his early 20s. Traveling by Vespa and by ferry, Fort tours the islands at his leisure. He takes us to Elba, where Napoleon was once imprisoned; to Salina, famous for its capers, just as Pantelleria is famous for its dessert wine; to Pianosa, where dangerous Mafia bosses were kept and which Joseph Heller used as the setting for Catch-22 ; to Capri, where Maxim Gorky ran a school for revolutionaries which was visited by Lenin and Stalin... ...to all of Italy’s 52 islands which he has never written about before. With 30 years of experience as a food critic, travel writer and adventurer, Fort is an excellent guide through the culinary and cultural history he encounters during his summer in the islands.

Who reads Summer in the Islands : An Italian Odyssey?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Matthew Fort
Publisher
Unbound Digital
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781783523320
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Travel, History, Cooking

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