John Keahey, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-26594-6
Built on a lagoon, Venice is now in constant danger of becoming a new Atlantis, explains journalist Keahey (A Sweet and Glorious Land) in this fascinating look at the ecological disaster facing the city of canals. Not only is sea level "sixteen...
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John Keahey, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-24205-3
Under the spell of George Gissing's 1901 travelogue By the Ionian Sea, Keahey decided to retrace Gissing's footsteps through southern Italy to record the changes that have marked the region. As practicable as this premise is, it carries a major flaw:
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John Keahey. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-59705-4
When travel writer Keahey first visited Sicily in 1986, he discovered that it hardly resembled the bucolic images of peasant men and women hauling huge piles of newly harvested grapes or of donkey carts carrying oversized milk cans. Disappointed, he
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John Keahey. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-02431-2
Travel writer Keahey (Seeking Sicily) delivers another insightful look at the wonders of Italy, this time focusing on the coastal areas of western Tuscany to discover places most Americans “quickly pass through en route to somewhere else.” Keahey...
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John Keahey. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-10469-4
Keahey (Seeking Sicily) is a congenial host in this sunny and inquisitive memoir of his three-month excursion to the least-visited parts of Sicily. He shows up in a town of a few hundred or a thousand people with a loose plan that is almost always...
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John Keahey. St. Martin’s, $30 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-79240-2
This delightful travelogue from historian Keahey (Seeking Sicily) chronicles his three-month journey to walk the very stones Julius Caesar did some 2,000 years ago. While traversing the routes of the Via Appia and the Via Traiana in Italy and the...
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