A Florence Diary
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Author | : Diana Athill |
Publisher | : House of Anansi |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2016-11-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1487002211 |
A recently discovered gem from the bestselling author of Somewhere Towards the End, A Florence Diary is the charming and vivacious account of Athill’s travels to post-war Florence. In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her cousin Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, delightfully illustrated with photographs of the period, Athill recorded her observations and adventures — eating with (and paid for by) the hopeful men they meet on their travels, admiring architectural sights, sampling delicious pastries, eking out their budget, and getting into scrapes. Written with an arresting immediacy and infused with an exhilarating joie de vivre, A Florence Diary is a bright, colourful evocation of a time long lost and a vibrant portrait of a city that will be deliciously familiar to any contemporary traveller.
Author | : Florence Nightingale |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780791431153 |
Prior to her heroic efforts in nursing during the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale experienced tremendous psychological and spiritual anguish as she struggled to answer what she believed to be a divine call to service. Traveling to Egypt and Greece in 1849-50, she recorded her thoughts in a diary which has never been published in its entirety. Presented with never before published manuscript material and two unusual pieces of short fiction, this work demonstrates that Nightingale gleaned ancient Egyptian, Platonic, and Hermetic philosophy, Christian scripture and the works of poets, mystics, and missionaries in an attempt to understand the nature of God and her role in the divine plan.
Author | : Kathrine Kressmann Taylor |
Publisher | : New York : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The author describes being in Florence in a pension by the Arno River when it overflowed. She records the story of the flood and its aftermath in the four months after.
Author | : Florence Lin |
Publisher | : Quill |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Bread |
ISBN | : |
Chinese food has never been more popular. Yet few people realize how central pasta and breads are to a Chinese meal. Now one of the finest teachers of Chinese cooking in this country offers the only complete presentation of Chinese noodles, dumplings and breads, revealing how to make these dishes at home. Illustrated.
Author | : Gene Brucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Clark |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2008-10-07 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0385528345 |
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement. Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the voices of its witnesses. Two American artists wade through the devastated beauty; a photographer stows away on an army helicopter to witness the tragedy first-hand; a British “mud angel” spends a month scraping mold from the world’s masterpieces; and, through it all, an author asks why art matters so very much to us, even in the face of overwhelming disaster.
Author | : Florence Welch |
Publisher | : Crown Archetype |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525577165 |
Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.
Author | : Christopher Hibbert |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2004-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141926244 |
This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and illustrations and line drawings which will describe all teh buildings and treasures of the city.
Author | : Douglas Preston |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2008-06-10 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0446537411 |
In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history. In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more. This is the true story of their search for--and identification of--the man they believe committed the crimes, and their chilling interview with him. And then, in a strange twist of fate, Preston and Spezi themselves become targets of the police investigation. Preston has his phone tapped, is interrogated, and told to leave the country. Spezi fares worse: he is thrown into Italy's grim Capanne prison, accused of being the Monster of Florence himself. Like one of Preston's thrillers, The Monster of Florence, tells a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide-and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi, caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.
Author | : Luca Landucci |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781014070982 |
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