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Author | Eric Newby |
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Language | English |
Genre | Travel memoir, Autobiographical novel |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | 1994 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 214 pp (first edition, hardback) |
ISBN | 0-00-215866-3 (first edition, hardback) |
OCLC | 30734418 |
945/.5 20 | |
LC Class | DG735.6 .N49 1994 |
A Small Place in Italy is a travel memoir and autobiographical novel written by Eric Newby, author of The Last Grain Race, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and Slowly Down the Ganges. In 1967, Eric Newby and his wife Wanda acquire an old run-down farmhouse in Italy, I Castagni (The Chestnuts), in the foothills of the Apuan Alps on the borders of Liguria and northern Tuscany. The book is a personal memoir of the couple's experiences in renovating the house, which had a tileless roof, a long-abandoned septic tank and a wealth of indigenous flora and fauna, as well as a vivid description of their neighbours and the lifestyle of country people in Italy at that time.[1]