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Calabria, Italy and its Genealogy, History, Culture and Language

By The Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy

The full text of the classic travelogue by George Gissing


Table of Contents:
  1. From Naples
  2. Paola
  3. The Grave of Alaric
  4. Taranto
  5. Dulci Galæsi Flumen
  6. The Table of the Paladins
  7. Cotrone
  8. Faces by the Way
  9. My Friend the Doctor
  10. Children of the Soil
  11. The Mount of Refuge
  12. Catanzaro
  13. The Breezy Height
  14. Squillace
  15. Miseria
  16. Cassiodoris
  17. The Grotta
  18. Reggio