Abstract
IN the last resort it would be difficult to decide whether the award of merit should go to Miss Canziani's paintings or her letterpress in this delightful account of a visit to the Abruzzi just before the War. Both alike are a spirited and detailed record of a primitive culture which no longer survives intact in post-War conditions. When Miss Canziani visited the country she was warned that it was not safe owing to brigandage. Though she did not encounter that peril, the attitude of the peasants at times seems alarming, to the reader at least, even if Miss Canziani takes it calmly enough.
Through the Apennines and the Lands of the Abruzzi: Landscape and Peasant Life.
Described and drawn by Estella Canziani. Pp. xiv + 339 + 24 plates. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd.; London: Simpkin Marshall, Ltd., 1928.) 25s. net.
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Through the Apennines and the Lands of the Abruzzi: Landscape and Peasant Life . Nature 124, 52 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124052b0
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