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Terra Cognita: Dispatches From An Over-Traveled Italy
LSU Press
ISBN13:
9780807177877
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Twenty-seven years in the making, Terra Cognita chronicles the authors continual travelsand problematic (if still, at times, ecstatic) encountersin the bel paese. Across nine richly evocative essays, Chad Davidson investigates the seemingly never-ending fascination that travelers have with Italy. As much a meditation on what home and away mean as it is a travel memoir, Terra Cognita finds literary predecessors such as Dante and Italo Calvino crowding in alongside more accustomed sights from travel shows, Hollywood films, and tourist guides. Though each essay departs from a particular location in Italy and remains rooted in the authors own history there, the book ultimately becomes less about those places and more about the placelessness any such journey can engender, howeven after flying across an ocean and landing in a foreign countrywe are still hopelessly and fully ourselves.
- | Author: Chad Davidson
- | Publisher: LSU Press
- | Publication Date: Aug 17, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 186 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Travel
- | ISBN-10: 0807177873
- | ISBN-13: 9780807177877
- Author:
- Chad Davidson
- Publisher:
- LSU Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 17, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 186 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Travel
- ISBN-10:
- 0807177873
- ISBN-13:
- 9780807177877