From Scrub to Skyscrapers

A touching story that began in Martone Italy.

240 Page perfect bound with coloured cover. The story of two families – The Scaranos and the Lombardos as recalled by the children, friends and relatives of Maria Immacolata Scarano

· About the author…

Jim Scarano began writing and publishing books in 1992 when he self-published his first book titled: Readings and Practices for Self-Realisation.

Since that time he has written three more books and published other people’s work.

This book, From Scrub to Skyscrapers, however, is different from all the rest…

· About the book…

From Scrub to Skyscrapers is a work of love dedicated to the memory of the dear departed Maria Scarano, mother of the author.

This collection of memories, anecdotes, stories of sadness, joy, poverty, and finally the settling down in this rich country Australia, should be inspiring to anyone who ‘remembers’ how things were in our hometown Martone, Italy. It is about the way Maria Nunziata Scarano managed to support and raise six children in times of great need. She taught them to till the soil, to harvest the crops, to look after the land… But above all she gave them love and care…

Maria was born one of ten children in the Lombardo family – eight brothers, two sisters and the nonni Lombardo Giuseppa and Giorgio. They lived off the land and the scrub in the outskirts of Martone, a hillside called Petrorìo. They survived on figs, grapes and prickly pears, and whatever else their meagre plots of land could grow…

In time the Lombardos and the Scaranos came to Australia…

Read some sample text from the book right now…

The price per copy of From Scrub to Skyscrapers is: AUD25.00 plus postage and handling.

ISBN No: 0 9577 615 3 8 (eng)

ISBN No: 0 9577 615 6 2 (it)

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