Terra Cognita: Dispatches from an Over-Traveled Italy

by Chad Davidson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807177873
• ISBN13: 9780807177877
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"