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Terra Cognita - Dispatches from an Over-Traveled Italy (Paperback)
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Terra Cognita - Dispatches from an Over-Traveled Italy (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 290
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Twenty-seven years in the making, Terra Cognita chronicles the
author's continual travels-and problematic (if still, at times,
ecstatic) encounters-in 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 author's own history there, the book ultimately becomes less
about those places and more about the placelessness any such
journey can engender, how-even after flying across an ocean and
landing in a foreign country-we are still hopelessly and fully
ourselves.
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