The mother sea.
By: Translated from the French by Michael Callum.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Naples (Italy) -- Description; Italy, Southern -- Description and travel; Sardinia (Italy) -- Description and travel; Sicily (Italy) -- Description and travel
First sentence: Naples is black and bare.  Naples, with its din and squalor, appears barbaric to the traveler who comes down from Rome, although no other city on the peninsula is so subtle, ingenious or civilized.
Description: The author takes the reader on a journey that begins in Naples ("Naples is black and bare.  Naples, with its din and daualor, appears barbaric to the traveler who comes down from Rome, although no other city on the peninsula is so subtle, ingenious or civilized"), proceeds to Southern Italy, thence to Sardinia, and ends in Sicily ("Have the Sicilians not known everything already?  Have they not, from Empedocles to Pirancello, written everything?. . . .  They have known such a lot, precisely, and drawn at all the wells of knowledge, that their science has become blurred").
Notes: Translation of Mére Méditerranéa.
Table of contents: label: NAPLES; title: Antiquity of memory
pagenum: 9; title: Fragility, atrophy, insecurity
pagenum: 10; title: Dilemma
pagenum: 15; title: Towns, women, children
pagenum: 19; title: Dilemma (continued)
pagenum: 29; title: Night and Tremors
pagenum: 31; title: Vain history
pagenum: 35; label: SOUTH; title: The Southern Issue
pagenum: 45; title: Misfortune
pagenum: 54; title: A conquered General, a victorious sun-bather-and St. Joseph
pagenum: 63; title: Magna Graecia
pagenum: 69; title: The eagle and the eye
pagenum: 76; label: SARDINIA; title: Angels
pagenum: 89; title: Dawn, courage, curves
pagenum: 93; title: Dead water, sacred water, running water, bitter water
pagenum: 96; title: The peculiar history of the Lake of Cabras
pagenum: 103; title: Mother Mediterranean
pagenum: 106; title: A short glossary of happiness in Sardinia
pagenum: 112; title: A book-seller, a philosopher and a potter
pagenum: 146; label: SICILY; title: Gentlemen versus The Rest
pagenum: 155; title: Religion in Palermo
pagenum: 160; title: Comforts and impostures
pagenum: 163; title: Agrigento
pagenum: 173; title: Honour
pagenum: 182; title: Catania
pagenum: 187; title: An honest man
pagenum: 196; title: A hero
pagenum: 206; title: Paladins, puppets, dwarfs
pagenum: 219