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Stone boudoir : travels through the hidden villages of Sicily / Theresa Maggio.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maggio, Teri.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sicily (Italy)--Description and travel.
- Sicily (Italy).
- Villages--Italy--Sicily--Description and travel.
- Villages.
- Italy--Sicily.
- Sicily (Italy)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 246 pages : map ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus, 2002.
- Summary:
- In this sparkling book, Theresa Maggio takes us on a journey in search of Sicily's most remote and least explored mountain towns. Using her grandparents' ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice as her base camp. she pores over old maps to plot her adventure, selecting as her targets the smallest dots with the most appealing names. Whether she's writing about the unique pleasures of Sicilian street food, the damage wrought by molten lava, the ancient traditions of Sicilian bagpipers, or the religious processions that consume entire villages for days on end, Maggio succeeds in transporting readers to a wholly unfamiliar world, where almonds flower in February and the water tastes of stone. A beautifully wrought meditation on time and place. The Stone Boudoir will be cherished by all who love fine travel writing.
- Contents:
- 1 Ciolino 1
- 2 Nana and Papa 7
- 3 Roccella Valdemone 18
- 4 Prickly Pears 23
- 5 Home Sweet Stone 33
- 6 Saturday Market 37
- 7 Wash on the Line 44
- 8 The Sheep Sleep in Palaces 47
- 9 The Earthquake 53
- 10 Polizzi Generosa 62
- 11 Fava Beans 75
- 12 Continuing Education 79
- 13 Zafferana Etnea 87
- 14 Borgo Catena 92
- 15 The Cycle of Bread 97
- 16 Sicilian Bagpipes 103
- 17 The Etna Line 108
- 18 Linguaglossa 113
- 19 Christmas at Maletto 116
- 20 La Piovra 118
- 21 Castiglione di Sicilia 128
- 22 "My Flowers Were of Stone" 136
- 23 Castello Romeo 144
- 24 Grim Reaper 149
- 25 Food Is the Font of Love 156
- 26 Love on a Plate 164
- 27 The Feast of Saint Agatha 169
- 28 Keep It Like This 193
- 29 Water in the Stone 202
- 30 Geraci Siculo 208
- 31 Freedom 220
- 32 Without a Man 232
- 33 The Secret Spring 239.
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0738203424
- OCLC:
- 48836440
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