{"product_id":"9781783523337","title":"Summer in the Islands: An Italian Odyssey","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine spending a carefree summer in the Italian sun, beachcombing, eating and drinking with abandon, drifting without restraint from island to island, from port to port.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummer in the Islands is the record of Matthew Fort doing just that in his third Italian voyage on a Vespa – first down the length of Italy in \u003ci\u003eEating Up Italy\u003c\/i\u003e, then around Sicily in \u003ci\u003eSweet Honey, Bitter Lemons\u003c\/i\u003e, and now hopping between the Aeolian Islands, something he hadn’t done since his early 20s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraveling by Vespa and by ferry, Fort tours the islands at his leisure. He takes us to Elba, where Napoleon was once imprisoned; to Salina, famous for its capers, just as Pantelleria is famous for its dessert wine; to Pianosa, where dangerous Mafia bosses were kept and which Joseph Heller used as the setting for \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e; to Capri, where Maxim Gorky ran a school for revolutionaries which was visited by Lenin and Stalin…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e…to all of Italy’s 52 islands which he has never written about before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 30 years of experience as a food critic, travel writer and adventurer, Fort is an excellent guide through the culinary and cultural history he encounters during his summer in the islands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182427455728,"sku":"9781783523337","price":21.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781783523337_p0.jpg?v=1763726228","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781783523337","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}