By the Ionian Sea (Lost & Found)
Subtitle: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy
Contributors: Pierre Coustillas (Introduction)
Edition: New Ed edition
Series: Lost and Found
Publisher: Signal Books Ltd; Signal
Published: December 9, 2003
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781902669670
Subjects: Classic travel writing; Cultural studies; Italy; Travel
First sentence: This is the third day of sirocco, heavy-clouded, sunless.
Description: An account of a journey in Magna Graecia made in 1897 by the English novelist George Gissing (1857-1903), which examines southern Italy from both a classical and a contemporary perspective.
Table of contents: title: Introduction by Pierre Coustillas
pagenum: vi; title: The Manuscript
pagenum: xxv; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: xxvii; label: 1
title: From Naples
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Paola
pagenum: 7; label: 3
title: The Grave of Alaric
pagenum: 14; label: 4
title: Taranto
pagenum: 22; label: 5
title: Dulce Galesi Flumen
pagenum: 29; label: 6
title: The Table of the Paladins
pagenum: 36; label: 7
title: Cotrone
pagenum: 44; label: 8
title: Faces By the Way
pagenum: 52; label: 9
title: My Friend the Doctor
pagenum: 60; label: 10
title: Children of the Soil
pagenum: 68; label: 11
title: The Mount of Refuge
pagenum: 75; label: 12
title: Catanzaro
pagenum: 82; label: 13
title: The Breezy Height
pagenum: 93; label: 14
title: Squillace
pagenum: 100; label: 15
title: Miseria
pagenum: 107; label: 16
title: Cassiodorus
pagenum: 112; label: 17
title: The Grotta
pagenum: 119; label: 18
title: Reggio
pagenum: 124; title: Notes
pagenum: 133; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 152