"Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele" tells for the first time the
riveting life-story of an extraordinary individual, who came to
define the times he lived in.
The precociously bright son of a Swedish pharmacist, Axel Munthe
worked under Jean Martin Charcot, and in 1880, became the youngest
doctor in French history. By the 1890s, he was world-famous for his
healing powers, believed by some to be supernatural. He moved in
the most colourful and exalted circles of fin-de-siecle Europe,
counting amongst his friends Henry James, Howard Carter, Rainer
Maria Rilke, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Count Zeppelin. Though
physician to the Swedish court, where he became the lover of the
Crown Princess Victoria, Munthe was more at home with nature than
with people. He travelled through remotest Lapland, as well as
across Europe, and his great love was animals, which he went to
great lengths to protect. In 1929 he published "The Story of San
Michele," an account of his life, shot through with his love for
Italy and Capri, where he built a bird sanctuary and the house of
his dreams, the Villa San Michele. The book became an international
best seller, translated into 40 languages, and has become one of
the classics of the last century. Bengt Jangfeldt is the first
person to have gone through Munthe's diaries, letters and notebooks
to produce this definitive account of one of 20th Century Europe's
most vibrant figures.
Written with the verve and exuberance of its subject, "Axel
Munthe: The Road to San Michele" evokes a lost time, a life of
passions, and a man who believed in every sense in the power of
dreams.
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