Title: In Maremma
Subtitle: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
Description: Now with stunning illustrations and color photographs, this newly expanded edition of In Maremma recounts David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell's restoration of a dilapidated 1950s farmhouse in southern Tuscany. Beautifully written, witty, and concise, it recounts the process by which they became initiated into a part of Italian life foreigners rarely see. The pleasures of the olive harvest and picking wild asparagus are juxtaposed with the vagaries of political corruption and self-perpetuating bureaucracy. Landscape and weather provide the stuff of reverie, as do the benefits of boredom and the lon.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Description and travel, Essays & Travelogues, Travel / Essays & Travelogues, Travel / General, Travel, Travel - General, Italy, description and travel, Italy, social life and customs
Places: Maremma (Italy)
People: Mark Mitchell, David Leavitt (1961-)