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SKU:JU030BK0QJGDGNAFAMZ
Model:9780330288262
Author:Newby

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Jumia's Description

  • Paperback - Number of Pages: 448 pages
  • Dimensions: 130 x 192 x 32mm - 281.23g
  • Publication date: 09 Aug 1985
  • Publisher: Pan MacMillan
  • Imprint: PICADOR
  • Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom

Veteran travel writer Newby makes a witty and engaging tour guide to the port cities and coastal regions of the Mediterranean, but all too often he turns off his personal voice and reads canned material we could find in Baedeker, Michelin, or even Fielding. He's at his best in Italy (Naples, Venice), where he speaks the language and knows his way around. His prose, which is always crisp and serviceable, takes on a specially earthy verve when he describes his (mis)adventures in Naples, with its homicidal drivers, its Autonomous Collective of Smugglers, its splendid horse-drawn funeral coaches, its innumerable whores (some of whom, hard-pressed by competition from male prostitutes and transvestites, have business cards pinned on their doors with the inscription PUTTANA VERA - genuine prostitute). Once outside Italy, Newby has his ups and downs. His trip through Yugoslavia and Albania is often engrossing (the colorful, highly alcoholic burial of an old lady in Slovenia, a nervous confrontation wi...

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