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Thin Paths: Journeys In and Around an Italian Mountain Village

Julia Blackburn

In 1994, while walking the Alta Via, the high path winding from the French border to the Bay of Lerici, a man stopped in a remote village, and found he couldn't forget it. Julia Blackburn married that man and moved to that house in 1999. What she found in the mountains was a new way of life, and one that is fast disappearing.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyAward Category: Costa Book Awards: Biography -> BiographyAward Category: Biography -> BiographyImmigration, Refugees & BorderlandsDeath, Memory & CommemorationTravel, Exploration & PlaceBiography & Public Lives

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Costa Book Awards: Biography2011FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Julia Blackburn82%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • French border40%
    • Bay of Lerici38%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    28 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 66%.