From the Alps to the Adriatic, through Ferrara, Mantova, Parma, Cremona, Pavia and Turin. Those who read Helena Attlee’s recent Lev’s Violin will know something of its historical use, but now the Po is drying up, its irrigation channels green with algal blooms from excessive nitrogen run-off from farmland, and the fertile delta increasingly saline – the sea has seeped 12 kilometres inland. Jones’ account of his journey end-to-end and of those he meets along the way is equally fascinating and chastening.
The Po: An Elegy for Italy’s Longest River
(author)
£25.00
Edition:Hardback978178669739407/07/2022
Categories: 16. Books for Christmas 2022: Travel, Books for Christmas 2022, Travel
Tags: Environment, Italy, Rivers & Seas
From a Bookshelf nearby
-
Meditations on Rome and Venice by the celebrated American poet. The latest in the Ekphrasis series, the small paperbacks from David Zwirner.
Two Cities
Paperback £8.95 -
-
This slim volume came out in the autumn and has been picked up so swiftly each time it arrives in the shop that we've hardly been able to keep it in stock...
-
A superb narrative of the 'underside' of the Italian Renaissance: the Genoese and Neapolitans; the women writers, Jewish merchants, mercenaries, engineers, prostitutes, farmers and citizens ... read more