Table of Contents

I Saracen Lucera II Manfred’s Town III The Angel of Manfredonia IV Cave-Worship V Land of Horace VI At Venosa VII The Bandusian Fount VIII Tillers of the Soil IX Moving Southwards X The Flying Monk XI By the Inland Sea XII Molle Tarentum XIII Into the Jungle XIV Dragons XV Byzantinism XVI Reposing at Castrovillari XVII Old Morano XVIII African Intruders XIX Uplands of Pollino XX A Mountain Festival XXI Milton in Calabria XXII The ‘Greek’ Sila XXIII Albanians and their College XXIV An Albanian Seer XXV Scrambling to Longobucco XXVI Among the Bruttians XXVII Calabrian Brigandage XXVIII The Greater Sila XXIX Chaos XXX The Skirts of Montalto XXXI Southern Saintliness XXXII Aspromonte, the Cloud-gatherer XXXIII Musolino and the Law XXXIV Malaria XXXV Caulonia to Serra XXXVI Memories of Gissing XXXVII Cotrone XXXVIII The Sage of Croton XXXIX Midday at Petelia XL The Column Index

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Calabria. A dramatic peninsula of rugged mountains and windswept coastlines facing Sicily - 'the most beautiful kilometer in Italy' - wrote Gabriele d'Annunzio of its coastline. This book presents an account of the author's adventures which are woven with history.

About the Author

Norman Douglas (1868-1952) was born in Austria and educated in England, Germany and France. Much of his life was spent in exile, in Italy and the south of France. His first work, Siren Land, was published in 1911, followed by Fountains in the Sand (1912) and Old Calabria (1915). Publication of his most famous novel, South Wind, in 1917 established his reputation as one of the foremost writers of his generation. Douglas returned briefly to England in 1942 but spent the last five years of his life on Capri, where he died after a long illness. Though his life was surrounded by controversy, Douglas's prose reflected an elegance and beauty acclaimed by critics. His novels and travel books are now widely regarded as classics.

Reviews

'One of the most entertaining literary characters of his age, always unexpected. He lived and died an unpenitent nonconformist.' - The Evening Standard; 'Douglas is an excellent writer of works of travel: he has the necessary independence of mind, his loneliness, the face that gives nothing away. Old Calabria is a classic. His eye wanders from the road into the generalities of history and religion...but he never misses the precise contours of the country.' - The New Statesman; 'Almost everything a newcomer can require is here: Douglas turns easily from legend to natural history, natural history to notes on local wine..;' - Graham Greene, on Footnote on Capri, Sunday Times