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Name: Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Author: Tim Parks

📘 Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo by Tim Parks

An Italian travelogue describes the trains that traverse the country, from the architecture of old train stations to the new high-speed railways, and portrays the author's memorable encounters along the way, exploring how trains helped build Italy and how their development Italians' sense of themselves.

First publish date: 2013

Authors: Tim Parks

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