Episode 76: In Sardinia - An Unexpected Journey in Italy with Jeff Biggers

Welcome to Episode #76:

Today, I have a great conversation with Jeff Biggers Historian, Journalist, Author and Travel Writer about his new book: In Sardinia An Unexpected Journey In Italy.  Jeff Biggers has lived and traveled in Italy for the last 30 years and thought he was on his way to Sicily with his family for a sabbatical, after an eunepected moment on holiday in Sardinia He soon made Alghero his home and this book In Sardinia is the outcome of his time there.  

This is a rich and expensive conversation that not only excavates the convoluted history of Sardinia and the culture, but illuminates a part of Italy that many are yet to discover…..Biggers excavates stone by stone, poet by poet and layer by layer and gives us fresh perspective on the island and the Sardinian culture, and what’s more he is a wonderful storyteller.

“Things had a way of turning out differently in Sardinia” - Jeff Biggers

Shownotes:

In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy by Jeff Biggers

Buy In Sardinia by Jeff Biggers

Published by Melville House Books

Find a music soundtrack to the book at Melville House Books (above)

The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

Nurnet App, Frank Zappa, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art,

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Podcast #76 - Photo Credit courtesy of  @insardiniabook

“Far from a fleeting moment in history, or a stack of stones, the open museum of Sardinia recounted a story of foundations; a story of birth and rebirth, of endurance and resilience, and re-use, and a story of rituals and cross cultural ways that had made the island the staging ground of civilizations that not only shaped its own peoples, but the rest of the Mediterranean” - Jeff Biggers, In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey