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(More customer reviews)Axel Munthe was world famous for his healing powers. He travelled
in colourful circles in Europe. Respected for his character and
personality with friends and patients.
He spent many years working as a physician in Southern Italy,
labouring with earthquake disasters and typhus and cholera. During this time he found the ruined Tiberian villa of San Michele.
Restored it to a beautiful home. He wrote "THE STORY OF SAN MICHELE," the book has become an international bestseller.Bengt Jangfeldt's book says it all, the ROAD to San Michele is a must
read to come to grips with this extraordinary individual:AXEL MUNTHE
Dag Stomberg
St. Andrews, Scotland

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Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele tells for the first time the riveting life-story of an extraordinary individual, who came to define the times he lived in. The precociously bright son of a Swedish pharmacist, Axel Munthe worked under Jean Martin Charcot, and in 1880, became the youngest doctor in French history. By the 1890s, he was world-famous for his healing powers, believed by some to be supernatural. He moved in the most colourful and exalted circles of fin-de-siècle Europe, counting amongst his friends Henry James, Howard Carter, Rainer Maria Rilke, Lady Ottoline Morrell and Count Zeppelin. Though physician to the Swedish court, where he became the lover of the Crown Princess Victoria, Munthe was more at home with nature than with people. He travelled through remotest Lapland, as well as across Europe, and his great love was animals, which he went to great lengths to protect. In 1929 he published The Story of San Michele, an account of his life, shot through with his love for Italy and Capri, where he built a bird sanctuary and the house of his dreams, the Villa San Michele. The book became an international best seller, translated into 40 languages, and has become one of the classics of the last century. Bengt Jangfeldt is the first person to have gone through Munthe's diaries, letters and notebooks to produce this definitive account of one of 20th Century Europe's most vibrant figures. Written with the verve and exuberance of its subject, Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele evokes a lost time, a life of passions, and a man who believed in every sense in the power of dreams.

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