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The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean

The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean

Name: The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Paul Theroux
ISBN: 9780241135044

Paul Theroux

26/10/1995
Hamish Hamilton Ltd

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean par Paul Theroux

Résumé

An account of the author's voyage from Gibraltar, one of the Pillars of Hercules, to the southern Pillar. Instead of crossing the straits, he chose to travel the long way, up the coast of Spain along the Riviera, and by ferry to Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily and beyond, through the near-anarchy of Albania and onto a ship through the Levant with a hundred Turks. On this journey, Theroux remains earthbound, using trains, ferries and cruise ships to discover a coastline as wild in places as anything he discovered in China or Peru. Along the way, he discovers another Mediterranean, that of low-season depression, of urban sprawl, of seldom-visited, unchanged places such as the antique villages in southern Italy.