{"id":2947,"date":"2008-11-03T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2008-11-03T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T03:47:00","slug":"finding-nino-a-sea-change-in-italy-wins-the-australian-society-of-travel-writers-best-travel-book-award-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/11\/finding-nino-a-sea-change-in-italy-wins-the-australian-society-of-travel-writers-best-travel-book-award-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Nino A sea change in Italy Wins the Australian Society of Travel Writer\u2019s Best Travel Book Award 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcllewellyn.com\/art\/coverweb.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 275px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marcllewellyn.com\/art\/coverweb.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Travel journalist Marc Llewellyn has won a top award at the Australian Society of Travel Writer&#8217;s Travel Journalism Awards for Excellence held in Shanghai on Sunday 26 October. Llewellyn walked away with the Best Travel Book Award 2008 for his highly-praised travelogue Finding Nino \u2013 A Sea Change in Italy published by HarperCollins Publishers.<\/p>\n<p>Finding Nino tells the tale of Llewellyn&#8217;s decision to move from Australia with his wife, newborn child and dog, and take up a new life on the island of Lipari, one of the Islands of the Winds that float off northern Sicily.<\/p>\n<p>Intimate and honest, Finding Nino is a travelogue like no other, presenting the good, the bad and the reality of what it means to leave it all behind.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface Finding Nino is a story about a major sea change but it&#8217;s also about love, the search for home, coming to terms with who you really are, learning to become truly self-sufficient, and finding out what really matters in life.<\/p>\n<p>Finding Nino is essential reading for Italophiles, armchair travellers and anyone who has dreamed of getting a life.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Society of Travel Writers is made up of more than 300 travel writers, travel editors, and associated travel-related public relations professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Finding Nino is available in all good bookshops or order a signed and dedicated copy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findingnino.com.au\/\">www.findingnino.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel journalist Marc Llewellyn has won a top award at the Australian Society of Travel Writer&#8217;s Travel Journalism Awards for Excellence held in Shanghai on Sunday 26 October. Llewellyn walked away with the Best Travel Book Award 2008 for his highly-praised travelogue Finding Nino \u2013 A Sea Change in Italy published by HarperCollins Publishers. Finding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}