Reviews for National Geographic Traveler Sicily

The average rating for National Geographic Traveler Sicily based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-02-25 00:00:00 Alain Villeneuve Perfect book for people like me, who jumps around, reading multiple books at the same time. Amazing writers, each with a different colored glass from which they tell the story of Italy. Makes me want to live there.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-23 00:00:00 Lewis Laska Better in concept than execution, this slender volume was enjoyable as an anthology of Italian writers, some well-known in the English-speaking world (Pirandello, for instance), while others are hardly known outside Italy. The intent of the volume however is to provide something in the way of a literary Baedeker for various regions, cities, and sub-regions of Italy. The chapters are divided into north (Turin, Portofino, Milan, Venice, Veneto, Trieste), center (Tuscany, Florence, Rome), and south (Naples, Capri, Calabria, Sicily). Some cities and sub-regions only have one excerpt devoted to them, others have several, but in most cases the location is just that and there is not necessarily any insight given or implied about the character of the place or what a traveler might expect from it. The most noteworthy exceptions to that observation are Alberto Savinio's remarkable "Noontide at Anacapri" which paints a vivid and indelible portrait of that island, and Romano Bilenchi's "A Geographical Error". There are some other very good stories herein, of which I would single out Goffredo Paresi's darkly humorous "Well Off", Corrado Alvaro's heartbreaking "Honeymoon in Naples", and Luigi Pirandello's "The Black Kid."