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The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley

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The book I purchased arrived in the "near new" condition as stated in the advertisement. Very pleased with purchase and the seller.

This is an academic treatise from a few decades ago. Let that be said right off the bat. It was recommended to me while I was in the South Tyrol (at the regional museum in the village of Dorf Tirol in 1988) when it was an obscure book available to me only in the reference section of the Free Library of Philadelphia (I could only read it in the reading room). Now I own my own copy, and having read it, I understand a lot more about the nature of the South Tyroleans as a part of Italy (which neither they nor the rest of Italy really want to acknowledge). So, on return visits (several), I have been better able to understand why the villages just south of the old Austrian border look and act differently than those to the north. If you have been, or are going, to the Sud-Tirol (Italian: Alto Adige) and really want to understand it, this book will help you. If you want a tour guide, look elsewhere.