Book excerpt: Excerpt from Through Italy With Car and Camera Early September would have been a better time for starting than was October. The month's delay brought us colder nights in the mountain towns of central Italy than were desirable. December, too, found crushed stone on many of the roads, the avoidance of which would make a saving in tire expense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.