A Small Place in Italy Audiobook (Free)

This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and an excellent recreation of the bygone era.

In 1967, experienced travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a go back to life in the Italian hills where they first met during World Battle II. But this fulfilment wouldn’t normally come easy. The desire materialised in the form of I Castagni (‘The Chestnuts’), a small, decrepit farmhouse with no roof, an discontinued septic tank and its own indigenous wildlife in regards to a Small Put in place Italy reluctant to give up their home. But in the foothills from the Apuan Alps around the boundary of Liguria and North Tuscany, this ramshackle home would soon become a hub of love, camaraderie and activity.

Whether recounting harmful expeditions through Afghanistan or everyday life in a country house, Newby’s talent shines through as one of the main writers from the comic travel genre. Full of Newby’s sharpened wit and great humour, ‘A Little Place’ in Italy profits, twenty years later, to the life span of Newby’s much-cherished traditional, Love and War in the Apennines. It lovingly recounts the quickly disappearing life style from the idiosyncratic local people, and the enduring friendships they forge, whether posting in developing their first wine harvest as novices or frying poisonous mushrooms for any feast.