Product description
First published in December 1908, this book was the first original Italian work translated simultaneously into eleven languages, as the publisher Ulrico Hoepli proudly informs in the presentation of the original edition.
Best seller for many years (it came to its sixth edition in 1929) is re-presented here in the form of an anastatic reprint, including the rich photographic kit. The book is a real classic and can be considered the first great report in the history of Italian journalism. Barzini’s unmistakable style, direct, essential, revived by a mild humor, has won generations of readers, making him very popular especially among the youngest.
Today the work is not only read as the exciting account of a car race, but has also acquired the value of historical testimony of civilizations and cultured peoples before the modernization of the twentieth century. The book also celebrates the progress of the technique and a car, the Itala, that has become legendary.
Barzini, progenitor of an illustrious family of journalists, still involves us today in the story of an enterprise that will remain among the great adventures of the last century.
