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1529112591

Book The hero's way: walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna; Tim Parks

Author: Parks, Tim

Year: 2022

Language: English

Type: Book

Class Number: 945.083092

Publisher: Vintage, 2022

Physical or Electronic: Physical

ISBN: 9781529112597

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Originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2021

In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi was finally forced to abandon his defence of Rome. He and his men had held the besieged city for three long months, but now it was clear that only surrender would prevent slaughter and destruction at the hands of a much superior French army. Against all odds, Garibaldi was determined to turn defeat into moral victory. In 'The Hero's Way', Tim Parks follows the hair-raising journey of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, 250-miles on foot from Rome to Ravenna, to explore Italy's past and present.

Extent: xiii, 369 pages, map (black and white), 20 cm, pbk

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