{"product_id":"terra-cognita-dispatches-from-an-over-traveled-italy-paperback-softback-9780807177877","title":"Terra Cognita; Dispatches from an Over-Traveled Italy (Paperback \/ softback) 9780807177877","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTerra Cognita\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDispatches from an Over-Traveled Italy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChad Davidson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807177877\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 August 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e186 pages, 11 halftones\u003cbr\u003e21.5 x 13.9 x 1 cm, 0.108 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eTwenty-seven years in the making, \u003ci\u003eTerra Cognita\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the author's continual travels—and problematic (if still, at times, ecstatic) encounters—in the \"bel paese.\" Across nine richly evocative essays, Chad Davidson investigates the seemingly never-ending fascination that travelers have with Italy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs much a meditation on what home and away mean as it is a travel memoir, \u003ci\u003eTerra Cognita\u003c\/i\u003e finds literary predecessors such as Dante and Italo Calvino crowding in alongside more accustomed sights from travel shows, Hollywood films, and tourist guides. Though each essay departs from a particular location in Italy and remains rooted in the author's own history there, the book ultimately becomes less about those places and more about the placelessness any such journey can engender, how—even after flying across an ocean and landing in a foreign country—we are still hopelessly and fully ourselves.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551786823960,"sku":"9780807177877","price":21.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/terra-cognita-dispatches-from-an-over-traveled-italy-paperback-softback-9780807177877","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}