Translation of Italian title: Atlantide: viaggio alla ricerca della bellezza.
Contents:
Macaia -- A letter from Admiral Temptation -- Reflections by the port -- The island that wasn't -- Retracing Captain Cook's route -- The ship of scientists -- The petrified forest -- The library in the stone -- The prairies of the Whitney -- Desperately seeking Renzo -- The city of the future -- A shard on the Thames -- Swamp thing -- The return of the blue angel -- Mare Nostrum -- City of music -- Stone sickness -- Gino's war -- The first time -- Eureka.
Summary:
Renzo and Carlo travel from Genoa in search of the perfect city, along the way reflecting on their own relationship, on fathers and sons, on the idea of travel itself, and perhaps most notably on architecture, space, and the secret life of forms
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