Theresa Maggio

The Stone Boudoir (eBook, ePUB)

Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this sparkling book, Theresa Maggio takes us on a journey in search of Sicily's most remote and least explored mountain towns. Using her grandparents' ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice as her base camp, she pores over old maps to plot her adventure, selecting as her targets the smallest dots with the most appealing names. Whether she's writing about the unique pleasures of Sicilian street food, the damage wrought by molten lava, the ancient traditions of Sicilian bagpipers, or the religious processions that consume entire villages for days on end, Maggio succeeds in transporting readers to a wholly unfamiliar world, where almonds flower in February and the water tastes of stone. A beautifully wrought meditation on time and place, The Stone Boudoir will be cherished by all who love fine travel writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Catapult
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781619020269
• Artikelnr.: 54459699

Autorenporträt

Theresa Maggio grew up in the New Jersey Meadowlands, the granddaughter of Sicilian immigrants, and has worked as a free-lance travel and science writer since the early 1990s. The author of Mattanza, which was named one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2000 by the Los Angeles Times and The Christian Science Monitor, her work has appeared frequently in The New York Times, as well as the Financial Times, the London Daily Telegraph, the New York Daily News, and the Miami Herald, among other publications. She lives in Vermont.