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The Road to San Donato: Fathers, Sons, and Cycling Across Italy

Name: The Road to San Donato: Fathers, Sons, and Cycling Across Italy
Brand: Mountaineers Books
SKU: 9781680512441
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Contributors:

Robert Cocuzzo

Publisher:

Mountaineers Books

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Travel

Book Subcategory:

Memoirs, Europe

Book Topic:

Italy

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Release Date:

2019-09-01

ISBN 13:

9781680512441

Weight:

0.95 lbs

Size:

8.70 x 5.90 x 1.10 inches

Pages:

224

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Description

The Road to San Donato is an adventurous travel memoir of an American father and son tracing their Italian heritage by bicycle. With only the bare essentials on their backs, author Robert Cocuzzo and his sixty-four-year-old father, Stephen, embark on a torturous 425-mile ride from Florence, Italy, to San Donato Val di Comino, an ancient village hidden in the Apennine mountains from which their family emigrated a hundred years earlier. After getting lost, beaten down, and very nearly stranded, when they finally reach the village the Cocuzzos discover so much more than their own family story.

For many Jews in the 1940s, the road to San Donato was one of exile; during World War II, dozens were interned in the village. When the Nazis came to ship them off to death camps, however, many of the villagers went to heroic lengths to save their lives. Walking and pedaling through this history, Robert Cocuzzo is determined to learn the role his family played at the time. The Road to San Donato is a story of fathers and sons, discovering lost "cousins," valorous history, and the challenge and exhilaration of traveling by bicycle.

About the Author
Cocuzzo, Robert: - Robert Cocuzzo is an editor, journalist, and author of the critically acclaimed Tracking the Wild Coomba: The Life of Legendary Skier Doug Coombs. He is also the editor of Nantucket Magazine and has written for Outside, Town & Country, Departures, Luxury, and Boston Common. Rob and his wife, Jenny, live with their daughter in Arlington, Massachusetts. Visit him online at RobertCocuzzo.com.