Name: Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780393348828

Tim Parks

An Italian travelogue describes the trains that traverse the country, from the architecture of old train stations to the new high-speed railways, and portrays the author's memorable encounters along the way.

Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

Laura

I really enjoyed this book as it offered many insides on the Italian culture just by the atmosphere and the shown experience on and of(f) the rails. It was not the most fast-paced and convincing books I've ever read, but it was amazing for an easy and educational read. 

'All Italy is here' Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with Verona Longlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his adopted country's vast, various and ever-changing networks of trains. Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians - conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants - Tim Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive. He explores how trains helped build Italy and how the railways reflect Italians' sense of themselves from Garibaldi to Mussolini to Berlusconi and beyond.

Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo

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