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020			_a9781786697394 _q(hardcover)
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100	1		_aJones, Tobias, _eauthor. _1https://isni.org/isni/0000000116790324 _971012
245	1	4	_aThe Po : _ban elegy for Italy's longest river / _cTobias Jones.
264		1	_aLondon : _bHead of Zeus, an Apollo book, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_axi, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (colour), maps (some colour) ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
336			_acartographic image _bcri _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aOne. Pialassa -- Two. Polesine -- Three. Il Mantovano -- Four. La Bassa Reggiana -- Five. La Bassa Parmense -- Six. Cremona, Piacenza, Pavia and Lomellina -- Seven. Monterrato and Torino -- Eight. Towards Saluzzo -- Nine. Stone King -- Sources -- Index.
520			_a"The Po is the longest river in Italy, travelling for 652 kilometres from one end of the country to the other. It rises by the French border in the Alps and meanders the width of the entire peninsula to the Adriatic Sea in the east. Flowing next to many of Italy's most exquisite cities - Ferrara, Mantova, Parma, Cremona, Pavia and Torino - the river is a part of the national psyche, as iconic to Italy as the Thames is to England or the Mississippi to the USA. For millennia, the Po was a vital trading route and a valuable source of tax revenue, fiercely fought over by rival powers. It was also moat protecting Italy from invaders from the north, from Hannibal to Holy Roman Emperors. It breached its banks so frequently that its floodplain swamps were homes to outlaws and itinerants, to eccentrics and experimental communities. But as humans radically altered the river's hydrology, those floodplains became important places of major industries and agricultures, the source of bricks, timber, silk, hemp, cement, caviar, mint, flour and risotto rice. Tobias Jones travels the length of the river against the current, gathering stories of battles, writers, cuisines, entertainers, religious minorities and music. Both an ecological lament and a celebration of the resourcefulness and resilience of the people of the Po, the book opens a window onto a stunning, but now neglected, part of Italy"--Publisher's description.
651		0	_aPo River (Italy) _xHistory.
651		0	_aPo River (Italy) _xDescription and travel.
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