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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Comprising short stories, novel excerpts, essays, journal entries, letters, and poetry. Italy in Mind captures all the contradictions of the Italian scene: enduring tradition and trendy consumerism, ravishing landscapes and urban sprawl, demonic bureaucracy and unvanquishable human warmth. Each entry is accompanied by a biography of the author, and the entire collection is preceded by a lively introduction by editor Alice Leccese Powers. The result...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Departures
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A close-up look at some of the world's most endangered locales examines the environmental factors that are threatening to destroy them forever, from the thousands of visitors causing erosion at Machu Picchu, to the global warming that is causing the disappearance of glaciers from Glacier National Park or the logging that is destroying the rainforests of the Congo Basin.
27) Bad trips
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
The entries in this collection take us to the farthest extremes of travel with tales of danger, disorientation and bemused discomfort; combines reportage, fiction and poetry representing some of the best-known writers of our time.
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