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Wild Italy : A Traveller's Guide Camille Helminski Crowds gather at the gatesIn Wild Italy , Tim Jepson leaves the well worn tourist haunts of traditional guide books behind him in search of fresher pleasures. He offers a rural, rather than an urban Italy, revealing the best of the long walks, mountain hideaways, woods, plains, sea coasts and remote islands where travelers can still find a refuge from the modern world. He explores the whole country from its Alp studded waist to its distant toe kicking the football of Sicily