Many people know Italy, but it is a country so rich in treasures and natural beauty that few have time for the remote parts and fewer still have the ability to get to know Italians. Donald Hall set off in a little Fiat to explore the Abruzzi, Molise and Le Marche. His encounters with the people of the regions are retold with an unjudgemental humour and genuine appreciation of their poverty and daily hardships helps throw light on Italian character and conditions today. Go with him over mountains, through peach orchards and olive groves to ruined monasteries and remote hill towns
“This book can only be purchased second-hand but Hall has also written a book about his travels in Romania in 1933, which was recently republished in paperback. It is hoped that enough interest in the title above, would also encourage republication because there is no other book I know of that captures the Abruzzi art, architecture and people so well.” Anna Noble
Illustrated with photos.
