Travel writing – Globolibri.it

The Last Supper : A Summer in Italy

Arnaldo Ageno — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:14:22 +0000

When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey leads them to both the expected and the surprising, all seen through Cusk’s sharp and humane perspective.

Quando Rachel Cusk decide di recarsi in Italia per un’estate con suo marito e due bambini piccoli, non ha idea delle prove e delle meraviglie che incontrerà. Il loro viaggio li conduce sia al atteso che al sorprendente, tutti visti attraverso la prospettiva acuta e umana di Cusk.

Four Seasons in Rome : On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Arnaldo Ageno — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:57:04 +0000

On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome… ‘Four Seasons in Rome’ charts the repercussions of that day, describing Doerr’s varied adventures in one of the most enchanting cities in the world, and the first year of parenthood. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats – the chroniclers of Rome who came before him – and visits the piazzas, temples, and ancient cisterns they describe. He attends the vigil of a dying Pope John Paul II and takes his twins to the Pantheon in December to wait for snow to fall through the oculus.

He and his family are embraced by the butchers, grocers, and bakers of the neighbourhood, whose clamour of stories and idiosyncratic child-rearing advice is as compelling as the city itself. This intimate and revelatory book is a celebration of Rome, a wondrous look at new parenthood and a fascinating account of the alchemy of writers.

Lo stesso giorno in cui sua moglie ha dato alla luce 2 gemelli, Anthony Doerr ha ricevuto il Roma Prize, premio che gli ha dato uno stipendio e una sistemazione di un anno a Roma … Four Seasons in Rome tratta le ripercussioni di quel giorno, descrivendo le variazioni variabili di Doerr in una delle città più incantevoli del mondo e del primo anno di genitorialità. Legge Plinio, Dante e Keats – i cronisti di Roma che lo hanno preceduto – e visita le piazze, i templi e le antiche cisterne che descrivono. Frequenta la veglia di un Papa Giovanni II morente e porta i suoi gemelli al Pantheon a dicembre per aspettare che la neve cada attraverso l’Oculus.

Lui e la sua famiglia sono abbracciati da macellai, bottegai e fornai del quartiere, il cui clamore di storie e consigli idiosincratici educativi sono avvincenti come la città stessa. Questo libro intimo e rivelatore è una celebrazione di Roma, uno sguardo meraviglioso alla nuova genitorialità e un affascinante resoconto dell’alchimia degli scrittori.

Bookshop Tours of Britain

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:58:00 +0000

Based on her touring of bookshops, which she did over the three years since starting Fairlight, Louise Boland’s Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop.

Across 18 bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the Jurassic Coast of southwest England, over the mountains of Wales, through England’s industrial heartland, up to the Scottish Highlands and back via Whitby, the Norfolk Broads, central London, the South Downs and Hardy’s Wessex. On their way, the tours visit beaches, castles, head down coal mines, go to whiskey distilleries, bird watching, hiking, canoeing, to stately homes and the houses of some of Britain’s best-loved historic writers – and last but not least, a host of fantastic bookshops.

Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country

Arnaldo Ageno — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 06:34:30 +0000

It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life – a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. Ignoring such dangers – and yet curiously obsessed by them – Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country.

And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging: their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn’t get much better than this…

Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain

Arnaldo Ageno — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 06:29:28 +0000

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation’s public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy; place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and Shellow Bowells; people who said ‘Mustn’t grumble’, and `Ooh lovely’ at the sight of a cup of tea and a plate of biscuits; and Gardeners’ Question Time. Notes from a Small Island was a huge number-one bestseller when it was first published, and has become the nation’s most loved book about Britain, going on to sell over two million copies.