TY - BOOK ID - 77896815 TI - The ancient shore : dispatches from Naples AU - Hazzard, Shirley AU - Steegmuller, Francis PY - 2008 SN - 0226322017 022611130X 9780226111308 9780226322018 9780226322025 0226322025 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Tourism KW - Holiday industry KW - Operators, Tour (Industry) KW - Tour operators (Industry) KW - Tourism industry KW - Tourism operators (Industry) KW - Tourist industry KW - Tourist trade KW - Tourist traffic KW - Travel industry KW - Visitor industry KW - Service industries KW - National tourism organizations KW - Travel KW - Economic aspects KW - Naples (Italy) KW - Napulj (Italy) KW - Neapel (Italy) KW - Neapolis (Italy) KW - Nápoly (Italy) KW - Napoli (Italy) KW - Nápoles (Italy) KW - Comune di Napoli KW - Civilization. KW - Description and travel. KW - Social life and customs. KW - naples, italy, travel, travelogue, memoir, essays, expatriate, australia, united nations, new yorker, francis steegmuller, pliny, gibbon, auden, literature, henry james, oscar wilde, goethe, tourism, history, vesuvius, henri cartier-bresson, herbert list, nonfiction, volcano, pilgrimage, europe, culture, hospitality, encounter, expatriation, immigration, migration, campania region. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896815 AB - Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzard's writings on Naples, along with a classic New Yorker essay by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller. For the pair, both insatiable readers, the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden is constantly alive to them in the present. With Hazzard as our guide, we encounter Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and of course Goethe, but Hazz ER -