Journey Toward the Cradle of Mankind

By Guido Gozzano

Book Overview

The distinguished Italian poet Guido Gozzano (1883-1916) embarked for India in February 1912, ostensibly to treat his tuberculosis. His trip lasted three months and, all told, he spent six weeks on the subcontinent. His dispatches home for a newspaper are collected and published here in English for the first time.

The extent of Gozzano's travels--to Ceylon, Goa, Agra, Jaipur--makes one wonder how the writer could visit all or even most of the places he so vividly describes. "I did not honestly think I would find so much of it intact," the spellbound Gozzano repeats to himself, before what he must shortly recognize as prodigious evidence of decay.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810160080
• ISBN13: 9780810160088
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Marlboro Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.1"