..For my excursion to the Gennargentu, I secured two Sardinian guides and one fine morning found me bestriding my pony, and riding up the narrow village street, where my head nearly brushed the bottom of the overhanging balconies….

Vuiller, Gaston. The forgotten isles: impressions of travel in the Balearic Isles, Corsica and Sardinia Hutchinson and Co, 1896

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…the Taloro torrent, which rises in the Gennargentu, passes through the wild gorge, above which the village is built, and, after a rapid course, falls into the stagnant waters of the Tirso…….

Vuiller, Gaston. The forgotten isles: impressions of travel in the Balearic Isles, Corsica and Sardinia Hutchinson and Co, 1896

..in some of the villages in the Barbagia and Nuoro…the only fare of the peasants is barley-bread, garnished with a little Gadoni cheese, and in hard times often only bread, made from acorns, or even potter’s clay, with, occasionally, boiled beans.

Vuiller, Gaston. The forgotten isles: impressions of travel in the Balearic Isles, Corsica and Sardinia Hutchinson and Co, 1896

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