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Across Sicily with Garibaldi's Thousand: An Adventure in Landscape and Italian Memory

Across Sicily with Garibaldi's Thousand: An Adventure in Landscape and Italian Memory

Parks, Tim

Hardcover

Historical FiguresItalyItalian History

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1846884756
ISBN13: 9781846884757
Publisher: Alma Books
Published: Jul 28 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The 1860 Expedition of the Thousand, in which a group of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto, near Genoa, landing on the west coast of Sicily and advancing to its capital Palermo in a bid to liberate the island from Bourbon rule, is perhaps the defining moment of the unification of Italy, and a testament to the bravery, resilience and vision of the country's last condottiere.

Drawing on a wealth of contemporary diaries and other first-hand accounts by the protagonists of the events, and interspersing them with his own penetrating remarks, best-selling author Tim Parks retraces the journey of the Mille through the ragged landscape of Sicily under the blazing summer heat, bringing back to life an entire world in all its intricate complexity. Along the way he revisits old controversies and provides answers to many unresolved questions - as well as offering a vivid commentary on the Italy of today.

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