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The Dark Heart of Italy
Paperback
Main Details
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The Dark Heart of Italy
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Tobias Jones
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback | | Pages:320 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 111 |
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| Category/Genre | Travel writing |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780571235926
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| Classifications | Dewey:914.50493 |
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| Edition |
Open Market - Airside ed
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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| Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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| Publication Date |
15 February 2007 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
In 1999, Tobias Jones emigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he discovered a very different country, besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia, where crime is scarcely ever met with punishment. "The Dark Heart of Italy" is Jones' account of his three-year voyage across the Italian peninsula.
Author Biography
Tobias Jones was born in Somerset in 1972. Having graduated from Jesus College, Oxford with a double first in English and History, he spent a year framing and selling antiquarian maps in a bookshop in Bloomsbury. He then joined the editorial team of the London Review of Books, before becoming a staff writer for the Independent on Sunday. In 1999 he emigrated to Italy, from where he has worked as a freelance journalist, writing essays and articles on Italy for Wallpaper, Prospect, Vogue, the Guardian, the LRB and the Independent on Sunday. He has since returned to the UK and his new book, Utopian Dreams, is published in January 2007
ReviewsJones can be recommended as an informed, entertaining and admirably opiniated guide The Times
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