Thin Paths: Journeys in and Around an Italian Mountain Village
Author(s): Julia Blackburn
The author and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. This village was at the heart of the conflict between the fascists and the partisans, so they learnt a lot about death and fear and hunger and how men and women could hide like foxes in the mountains. This title celebrates the songlines of this place.
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An account of the history, landscape and people of a remote village high in the Ligurian mountains.
Shortlisted for Costa Biography Award 2011.
Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction - Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Old Man Goya and With Billie - a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in My Animals and Other Family, and four radio plays, including The Spellbound Horses, which is due to be broadcast in 2011.
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Jonathan Cape Ltd
- : 0.556
- : 01 June 2011
- : 205mm X 172mm X 27mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Julia Blackburn
- : Hardback
- : 945.18093092
- : 272