Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele

Description

Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele tells for the first time the riveting life-story of an extraordinary individual, who came to define the times he lived in. The precociously bright son of a Swedish pharmacist, Axel Munthe worked under Jean Martin Charcot, and in 1880, became the youngest doctor in French history. By the 1890s, he was world-famous for his healing powers, believed by some to be supernatural. He moved in the most colourful and exalted circles of fin-de-siècle Europe, counting amongst his friends Henry James, Howard Carter, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Count Zeppelin. Though physician to the Swedish court, where he became the lover of the Crown Princess Victoria, Munthe was more at home with nature than with people. He travelled through remotest Lapland, as well as across Europe, and his great love was animals, which he went to great lengths to protect. In 1929 he published The Story of San Michele, an account of his life, shot through with his love for Italy and Capri, where he built a bird sanctuary and the house of his dreams, the Villa San Michele. The book became an international best seller, translated into 40 languages, and has become one of the classics of the last century. Bengt Jangfeldt is the first person to have gone through Munthe’s diaries, letters and notebooks to produce this definitive account of one of 20th Century Europe’s most vibrant figures.

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 3062
2. Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele
3. [share_ebook] Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele
4. [share_ebook] Notfälle in Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe - Axel Riehn
5. The Way of the Road Warrior: Lessons in Business and Life from the Road Most Traveled
6. ISO 14001:2004 Road Map, Free DNV Business Assurance Road Map
7. ISO 14001:2004 Road Map, Free DNV Business Assurance Road Map
8. ISO 14001:2004 Road Map, Free DNV Business Assurance Road Map
9. High Road or Low Road, Job Quality in the New Green Economy (2009)
10. [share_ebook] MORTH Specification for Road and Bridge Works
11. ISO 14001:2004 Road Map, Free DNV Industry Road Map
12. ISO 14001:2004 Road Map, Free DNV Industry Road Map
13. ISO 14001:2004 Road Map, Free DNV Industry Road Map
14. Axel F - Crazy Hits
15. Axel M. Gruner - Unter dem Brunnen
16. Herman Lindqvist - 2001 - Axel von Fersen