A Small Place in Italy

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A Small Place in Italy

First edition
Author	Eric Newby
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
Dewey Decimal	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]