Two American women, who call themselves Jane and Peripatetica, travel through Sicily in spring on a half-serious quest for Persephone. They climb to hilltop towns, wander among the temples of Girgenti and the ruins of Syracuse, and end in the Golden Shell around Palermo, trading banter, myth and history as they go.
Written just before the 1908 earthquake, it is a witty, affectionate record of an island about to change. Download the free EPUB.