A SABINE JOURNEY - To ROME in Holy Year

London: Century, 1987. 'The Century Travellers'. First published in 1952 by Putnam & Company. Cover illustration: 'Rome' by John Newbolt. In 1950 Rhodes travelled through the Sabine foothills to Rome, on a donkey, in the tradition of a Robert Louis Stevenson or Hilaire Belloc. With an introduction by Peter Quennell and a map. Contents: 1). The Sabine mountains. 2). Rieti. 3). A rock town. 4). On being German. 5). An earthquake-lover. 6). Aquila. 7). An amphitheatre. 8). Three villages. 9). The land of Ovid. 10). The Gerrmans again. 11). An English idyll. 12). Masceri's relations. 13). The town of the beautiful women. 14). Pilgrims. 15). The reclaimed lake. 16). Tagliacozzo and Alba. 17). The Sabine farm. 18). A monastry. 19). The English in Tivoli. 20). Rome. 21). Modern Romans. 21). Holy year. 196 pag.. 1st edition. Paperback. Fine copy.. 21,5cmx13,5cm.