Old Calabria

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Calabria. A dramatic peninsula of rugged mountains and windswept coastlines facing Sicily - 'the most beautiful kilometre in Italy' - wrote Gabriele d'Annunzio of its coastline.

Though steeped in a rich and ancient past, Calabria had been lost from view when Norman Douglas visited in the early 1900s. Long familiar with southern Italy, the region captivated him and the wild and unspoilt landscape inspired him.

Tracing a typically adventurous route from the promontory of Gargano in the north - linked in ancient times with Byzantium - to the southern tip of Aspromote, he scaled vast mountain ranges, trekked through dense forest and crossed remote and often dangerous countryside.

Within Douglas' vibrant account of his adventures is woven the rich history - from Greek settlers and Roman conquerors to the powerful 'Ndrangheta organized crime family - that has shaped the land, language, culture and people of a place that Douglas grew to adore.

Witty, erudite and elegant, Old Calabria is a literary classic, acclaimed as much for its sparkling prose as for its exquisite portrait of Italy's most unpredictable and colorful province.

I Saracen Lucera
II Manfred's Town
III The Angel of Manfredonia
IV Cave-Worship
V Land of Horace
VI At Venosa
VII The Bandusian Fount
VIII Tillers of the Soil
IX Moving Southwards
X The Flying Monk
XI By the Inland Sea
XII Molle Tarentum
XIII Into the Jungle
XIV Dragons
XV Byzantinism
XVI Reposing at Castrovillari
XVII Old Morano
XVIII African Intruders
XIX Uplands of Pollino
XX A Mountain Festival
XXI Milton in Calabria
XXII The 'Greek' Sila
XXIII Albanians and their College
XXIV An Albanian Seer
XXV Scrambling to Longobucco
XXVI Among the Bruttians
XXVII Calabrian Brigandage
XXVIII The Greater Sila
XXIX Chaos
XXX The Skirts of Montalto
XXXI Southern Saintliness
XXXII Aspromonte, the Cloud-gatherer
XXXIII Musolino and the Law
XXXIV Malaria
XXXV Caulonia to Serra
XXXVI Memories of Gissing
XXXVII Cotrone
XXXVIII The Sage of Croton
XXXIX Midday at Petelia
XL The Column

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