To a Different World: In the Land of the Mafia

To a different world: In the land of the Mafia

Servadio, Gaia

H.Hamilton

A Siberian encounter

Travel

Asia

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Melinda: A novel;

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Luchino Visconti: A Biography

Giuseppina Strepponi was the most famous singer of her day when Giuseppe Verdi, then an unknown composer, wanted her to perform his work. They became lovers and eventually married, although she already had three illegitimate children. Their story, told here, is the stuff of grand opera.

THE REAL TRAVIATA. The biography of Giuseppina Strepponi, wife of Giuseppe Verdi.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

The Real Traviata: The Life of Giuseppina Strepponi, Wife of Giuseppe Verdi

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

An account of the Mafia's origins, growth, myths, and present-day Sicilian and American realities, recounting events of local and international import and revealing ties with business and government

Mafioso: A history of the Mafia from its origins to the present day

Secker Warburg

Is there really a mafia? Dispelling popular myths about the Mafia that have sprung up around such figures as Lucky Luciano and Joe Valachi, Gaia Servadio presents the most complete, insightful portrait of the Mafia yet to be published. Servadio traces the evolution of today's Mafia from Sicily's earliest days of domination by foreign conquerers. The Sicilian people, in response to this oppression, banded together in a brotherhood dedicated to honor, loyalty, and mutural proteciotn. How, then, have we come of identify the Mafia with extortion and violence? Gaia Servadio offers a fascinating answer to this question in a study of the big business, and big government, MAFIOSO looks at the names and the families, narcotics, prostitution, and the realities behind the myths. MAFIOSO is a rare instance of a crack journalist having succesfully penetrated a complex, mysterious society whose very byword is silence. One of the most encompassing and most perceptive analyssis of the Mafia printed today.

Mafioso: A history of the Mafia from its origins to the present day (A Delta book)

Dell

Recounts the life of the Italian theater, opera, and film director and discusses his approach to film making

Franklin Watts

Motya is a tiny island off the coast of Sicily, scarcely larger than one kilometre square, the site of one the major cities of the Phoenicians, destroyed by the Greeks after an extended siege in 397 BC. This book is Gaia Servadio's account of how early in the twentieth century the English archaeologist Pip Whitaker became convinced that Motya was the site of the buried city and started excavations which unearthed details of a remarkable lost civilization. It is also a story of how Gaia Servadio herself fell under the island's spell.

Motya: Unearthing a lost civilization

V. Gollancz

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