{"product_id":"terra-cognita-dispatches-from-an-over-traveled-italy-paperback","title":"Terra Cognita: Dispatches from an Over-Traveled Italy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChad Davidson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-seven years in the making, \u003ci\u003eTerra Cognita\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the author's continual travels--and problematic (if still, at times, ecstatic) encounters--in the \"bel paese.\" Across nine richly evocative essays, Chad Davidson investigates the seemingly never-ending fascination that travelers have with Italy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs much a meditation on what home and away mean as it is a travel memoir, \u003ci\u003eTerra Cognita\u003c\/i\u003e finds literary predecessors such as Dante and Italo Calvino crowding in alongside more accustomed sights from travel shows, Hollywood films, and tourist guides. Though each essay departs from a particular location in Italy and remains rooted in the author's own history there, the book ultimately becomes less about those places and more about the placelessness any such journey can engender, how--even after flying across an ocean and landing in a foreign country--we are still hopelessly and fully ourselves.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChad Davidson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four collections of poems, most recently \u003ci\u003eUnearth.\u003c\/i\u003e His essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAGNI, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eAntioch Review, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFive Points, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eGettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He directs the School of the Arts at the University of West Georgia near Atlanta and codirects Convivio, a summer writing conference in Postignano, Ita\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457739997437,"sku":"9780807177877","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/V0NkV2E1TEltR3IyV1ZmNFhteDJsdz09.webp?v=1777243066","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/terra-cognita-dispatches-from-an-over-traveled-italy-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}