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Book cover for "The fate of Fausto".
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Publisher:
Philomel
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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5 stars
Description:
A selfish man sets out to prove that he is the boss of everything he surveys.
Book cover for "The lovers".
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Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Fate and free will shape the arc of a powerful, mysterious romance in an isolated Italian Alpine town in this gorgeously written novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Eight Mountains. Leaving Milan and an old love behind, Fausto moves to Fontana Fredda-Cold Fountain-a small, remote village high in the mountains. Out of the way and off the beaten path, Fontana Fredda is a tourist town that operates by its own rules, sense of time,...
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Publisher:
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
Italian
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The story of Valeriano Falsini, a man full of dreams and expectations who, in the post-war period, wants to get out of the flat provincial life and become someone thanks to his sporting talent. His many amateur victories led him to join Costante Girardengo's team in 1950. During a training session he meets Fausto Coppi, who wants him in Bianchi the following year. But fate holds something different for him, that dream touches him without being able...
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Publisher:
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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Born of tumult in 1909, the Giro d'Italia helped unite a nation. Since then, it has reflected it's home country-the Giro's capricious and unpredictable nature matches the passions and extremes of Italy itself. A desperately hard race through a beautiful country, the Giro has bred characters and stories that dramatize the shifting culture and society of its home. There was Alfonsina Strada, who cropped her hair and raced against the men in 1924, or...
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Publisher:
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Born of tumult in 1909, the Giro d'Italia helped unite a nation. Since then, it has reflected it's home country-the Giro's capricious and unpredictable nature matches the passions and extremes of Italy itself. A desperately hard race through a beautiful country, the Giro has bred characters and stories that dramatize the shifting culture and society of its home. There was Alfonsina Strada, who cropped her hair and raced against the men in 1924 and...
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Publisher:
Opera Rara
Pub. Date:
2000
Language:
English
Book cover for "The social lives of forests".
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Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Language:
English
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"Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face--including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation--are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests' past, present, and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces. Moreover, in many cases the coalescence of these forces--from local ecologies to competing knowledge systems--has...