This personal travel book about Italy is written by the author of the prize-winning "Allegro Postillions" and "The Strangers' Gallery". The author's travels take him to an Italy of neglected grandeur, hidden beauty and preposterous paradox - where the past lies in wait for the present and where history is never far away. The book looks at a magician's cave in Piedmont, Chinese mummies in Umbria, Tuscan nightingales and bumps in the Venetian night.
- ISBN10 0330324659
- ISBN13 9780330324656
- Publish Date 7 August 1992 (first published 13 May 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 June 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English