This is my dad's book, so I am biased. It's an ethnographic study of land settlement patterns around an unusual town in the Italian province of Puglia. Dry reading on a topic of narrow interest. But I lived the writing of this book and that was an adventure that changed all of our lives.
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Sono Americano e il mio Italiano é molto fuori di pratica. Studiavo per un anno al'Universitá di Bologna più di venti cinque anni fa. Italo Calvino é il mio autore Italiano favorito. Oh, wait, seems like a fairly international crowd here.
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