Terra Cognita: Dispatches from an Over-Traveled Italy - Paperback

$29.95

Terra Cognita: Dispatches from an Over-Traveled Italy - Paperback

Name: Terra Cognita: Dispatches from an Over-Traveled Italy - Paperback
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SKU: 9780807177877
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by Chad Davidson

$29.95

Book Overview

Twenty-seven years in the making, Terra Cognita chronicles the author's continual travels--and problematic (if still, at times, ecstatic) encounters--in the "bel paese." Across nine richly evocative essays, Chad Davidson investigates the seemingly never-ending fascination that travelers have with Italy.

As much a meditation on what home and away mean as it is a travel memoir, Terra Cognita finds literary predecessors such as Dante and Italo Calvino crowding in alongside more accustomed sights from travel shows, Hollywood films, and tourist guides. Though each essay departs from a particular location in Italy and remains rooted in the author's own history there, the book ultimately becomes less about those places and more about the placelessness any such journey can engender, how--even after flying across an ocean and landing in a foreign country--we are still hopelessly and fully ourselves.

ISBN	9780807177877
Author	Chad Davidson
Publisher	LSU Press
Genre	Literature, Arts, and Travel
Format	Paperback
Published	August 2022
Language	ENG- English
Pages	186
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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