Florence: Ordeal by Water

Kathrine Kressmann Taylor was a recently retired American living in Florence in 1966.

She remained there to witness the flood and its aftermath, including the days of isolation without light, food, water that followed the initial disaster. Standing, incredulous, at the window of her pensione on the morning of 4th November 1966, Kathrine saw the the brown torrent of the river Arno – thick with flotsam, oil drums, cars, chairs, trees – rising into the streets. Her infinitely moving diary of the days of the flood, and those that followed, detail how the citizens of Florence strove against the choking sea of mud that engulfed their homes, possessions, shops and art.

"... a vivid eye-witness account of the 1966 flood that devastated Florence. Utterly compelling.”- Sarah Winman, international bestselling author of Still Life

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