{"product_id":"9780099584254","title":"Italian Ways : On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Parks, Tim \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/06\/2014,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 288 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099584254,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘All Italy is here’ Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and A Season with VeronaLonglisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardIn 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his adopted country’s vast, various and ever-changing networks of trains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough memorable encounters with ordinary Italians – conductors and ticket collectors, priests and prostitutes, scholars and lovers, gypsies and immigrants – Tim Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive.  He explores how trains helped build Italy and how the railways reflect Italians’ sense of themselves from Garibaldi to Mussolini to Berlusconi and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697545412652,"sku":"9780099584254","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780099584254.jpg?v=1722596738","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780099584254","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}