G B. (Turtle) reviewed Take a Trip through Tuscan landscape and history on 11/7/2008 + 17 more book reviews

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It at first reads like a boring account of an upper-crust Brit's life in Tuscany. But I hung in there and found it to be a delightful account of a woman's life starting in childhood as she embraces Italian culture. It's viewed through an intellectual and upper class lifestyle, but with sensitive insight into the Italian people and their way of life. Also an interesting insight into the politics and life through the World War and its affects on the landscape, peoples lives and the changes and adaptations to post-war rebuilding of the country. I enjoyed revisiting places I have visited just recently in a trip to Europe and as and Italian-American I enjoyed her descriptive accounts of Italian life.

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