The Stone Boudoir: In Search of the Hidden Villages of Sicily
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Fascinated by her family's stories of their Sicilian homeland, Theresa Maggio decided to return to her ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice and to explore the vanishing world they had left behind. She travelled to some of the most obscure and isolated villages in the shadows of Mount Etna, many of which had been all but destroyed by a huge earthquake in 1968. There she found an ancient way of life, where religious processions can consume villagers for days on end and where almonds grow like weeds by the roadside. Theresa Maggio's book is not just a wonderfully evocative account of a beautiful island, it is also a moving search to discover one's own origins.
Author: Theresa Maggio
Format: Paperback, 256 pages, 196mm x 129mm
Published: 2003, Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom
Genre: Travel Writing
Description
Fascinated by her family's stories of their Sicilian homeland, Theresa Maggio decided to return to her ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice and to explore the vanishing world they had left behind. She travelled to some of the most obscure and isolated villages in the shadows of Mount Etna, many of which had been all but destroyed by a huge earthquake in 1968. There she found an ancient way of life, where religious processions can consume villagers for days on end and where almonds grow like weeds by the roadside. Theresa Maggio's book is not just a wonderfully evocative account of a beautiful island, it is also a moving search to discover one's own origins.
The Stone Boudoir: In Search of the Hidden Villages of Sicily