''Sea and Sardinia'' is a

travel book The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In ...

by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It describes a brief excursion undertaken in January 1921 by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, a.k.a. Queen Bee, from Taormina in Sicily to the interior of Sardinia. They visited

Cagliari Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...

, Mandas, Sorgono, and Nuoro. His visit to Nuoro was a kind of homage to Grazia Deledda but involved no personal encounter. Despite the brevity of his visit, Lawrence distils an essence of the island and its people that is still recognisable today. Extracts were originally printed in '' The Dial'' during October and November 1921 and the book was first published in New York, USA in 1921 by Thomas Seltzer, with illustrations by

Jan Juta Jan C. Juta (September 1, 1895 – December 21, 1990) was a painter and muralist closely associated with the writer D. H. Lawrence. He illustrated Lawrence's book ''Sea and Sardinia'' and executed a well-known painting of Lawrence which presently ...

. A British edition, published by Martin Secker, came out in April 1923.

Standard edition

* ''Sea and Sardinia'' (1921), edited by Mara Kalnins, Cambridge University Press, 1997, . * ''Sea and Sardinia'' (1921), edited by Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - The Olive Press, London , 1989 . * Italian edition: ''Mare e Sardegna'', ''Introduzione'' di Luciano Marrocu, Nuoro, Ilisso, Scrittori di Sardegna, 2000 . * Online version with illustration
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References

External links

* Internet Archive on-line edition

* {{D. H. Lawrence 1921 non-fiction books British travel books Works originally published in The Dial Books about Italy English non-fiction books