Natuur reisgids Italië - Wild Italy - A Traveller's Guide | Shelldrake (9781873329351)

• ISBN / Code:
  9781873329351
• Aantal blz.:
  234
• Uitgever:
  Shelldrake
• Editie:
  2005
• Soort:
  Natuur reisgids
• Taal:
  Engels
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Natuur reisgids Italië - Wild Italy - A Traveller's Guide | Shelldrake

Hele goede reisgids die geheel gericht is op de natuur van Italië. Een groot aantal bijzondere natuurgebieden worden in detail beschreven over wat je aan flora en fauna daar kunt zien alsmede in het kort de geologische ontstaansgeschiedenis.

This is an extremely detailed and throughly researched book, whether you are looking for inspiration or whether you want to know more on Italy's natural heritage.

In popular imagination Italy is hardly seen as a wild country at all. Its countryside is the result of man-made shaping and ordering over the centuries. However, there are increadibly vast areas of wildeness that for their variety of flora and fauna represent a treasure that must be enjoyed and preserved.

The country is here divided into regions and within each region different wild habitats are described with detailed sections on National Parks, Nature Reserves and Nature Parks. Information on maps and guidebooks, how to get there, where to stay and useful addresses are given. Colour maps show the region highlighting the explored zones.

Say the word Italy, and a scene lights up in the mind: a cafe table in St Mark's Square, perhaps, a Renaissance fresco, a Tuscan villa on a hilltop. There are many books about these things. In Wild Italy, Tim Jepson takes a different tack, leaving the well-worn tourist haunts behind him in search of fresher pleasures. He explores the whole country from its Alp-studded waist to its distant toe kicking the football of Sicily towards Africa. Like an unhurried lover, he works his way down thigh and shin, following the line of the Apennines, locating the pressure points between continental and peninsular Italy, pinching to see where the prosperous north gives way to the Mediterranean south, looking for those last innocent stretches of littoral, down one side and up the other, where the bathers have not set up their parasols. Having lived in Rome and trekked the entire peninsula, he knows the secret places that are as oxygen to a suffocating man after the murderous drive through the suburbs of Milan or Naples. He has picked out the loveliest spots in Sicily and Sardinia and plotted the last few pinpricks of Italian territory, the scattered islands off the Tunisian coast which are some of the most isolated and primitive places in Europe. As well as having an extensive knowledge of wild places, he also has the ability to write about them with passion. 'One view of a cypress tree or stone farm-house and we are entranced,' he writes, 'overcome by that longing for the warm south which Icelanders describe nicely as "the need for figs".'