In Maremma
Subtitle: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published: April 24, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781582430614
Subjects: Travel; Maremma (Italy); Essays & Travelogues; Travel - Foreign; Social life and customs; Italy; Places & peoples: general interest; c 1990 to c 2000; Description and travel; Europe - Italy; 1961-; Leavitt, David,
First sentence: HE FIRST saw Podere Fiume, or River Farm, on a cold and rainy afternoon in January 1997.
Description: "In 1997 David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell bought a house in southern Tuscany: not a villa but a dilapidated farmhouse dating from the late 1950's and abandoned for more than twenty years. In Maremma recounts their restoration of the house, as well as the gradual process by which two Americans became initiated into a part of Italy - and a part of Italian life - that foreigners rarely see."--Jacket.