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Our Italy, by Charles Dudley Warner
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Title: Our Italy
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
Release Date: April 5, 2009 [EBook #28506]
Language: English
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[Illustration: SANTA BARBARA.]
OUR ITALY
BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
Author of Their Pilgrimage, Studies in the South and West, A Little Journey in the World ... With Many Illustrations
[Illustration]
NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
Copyright, 1891, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS.
CHAP. PAGE
I. HOW OUR ITALY IS MADE 1
II. OUR CLIMATIC AND COMMERCIAL MEDITERRANEAN 10
III. EARLY VICISSITUDES.--PRODUCTIONS.--SANITARY CLIMATE 24
IV. THE WINTER OF OUR CONTENT 42
V. HEALTH AND LONGEVITY 52
VI. IS RESIDENCE HERE AGREEABLE? 65
VII. THE WINTER ON THE COAST 72
VIII. THE GENERAL OUTLOOK.--LAND AND PRICES 90
IX. THE ADVANTAGES OF IRRIGATION 99
X. THE CHANCE FOR LABORERS AND SMALL