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Italian Carousel: Scenes of Internal / Exile

Door Andrei Navrozov e.a.

Categorie
Secundair
Boeknummer
#329792-AE1
Titel
Italian Carousel: Scenes of Internal / Exile
Auteur
Navrozov, Andrei & Gusov (photographs)
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London/Chester Springs : Peter Owen Publishers
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
0720611962
ISBN13
9780720611960
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting

Although he has also lived in Russia, the USA and Britain, Navrozov asks where in homogenized and modernized Europe would the hardened individualist find refuge. His answer is Italy or, more specifically, Palermo, where for the moment his flight from social progress ends. The answer takes the reader in an uncompromising, occasionally eccentric but deeply personal and always entertaining travelogue from the author's first day in Rome to his last night at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, through Monte Argentario, Florence and the Maremma on to Venice and the Veneto and finally to the wilds of Sicily. To each of these destinations he is accompanied by his longtime friend and London gambling companion Gusov, a Russian photographer whose recent work was said by the British Journal of Photogra
... (Lees verder)phy to 'capture the essence of life.' He has produced a collection of fifty arresting images which serve to give another dimension to the author's ideas and impressions of the places evoked in the book.
Pagina's
187
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 25,00

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