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Italia. Mark's love affair with all things Italian began as a child, when his family lived along the Tyrrhenian Sea near Florence. As an adult, he has spent over thirty years traveling across Italy's remarkable landscape. Tuscan Echoes chronicles one memorable season during which the author revisits some of the sights and sounds that have haunted his dreams for years.
Set amid the glorious surroundings of Florence, Tuscany, Umbria, Assisi, and Venice, the author's journey takes readers to quiet, out-of-the-way corners where moments of the mysterious and the sublime spring to life: ghosts appear in villas; fireflies illuminate a Florentine garden; a haunted gondola rests, landlocked, in Venice; marionettes dance in Assisi.
Tuscan Echoes is a uniquely personal portrait of a timeless place, a beloved land, and generous, gregarious, people.
Sensual, passionate, mystical and full of surprisingly intimate moments, this luminous debut work is a journey you must not mis

Mark is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. After serving with the Army he worked for several multi-national companies in Human Resources. In 2001 he left the corporate world to write. He currently divides his writing time between the mountains and coast of North Carolina, the town of Creede, Colorado, and his beloved Tuscany.

"I write about the subtle ways that nature affects our human existence. It is in the most quiet, and seemingly insignificant, moments that our lives can be transformed. In both my fiction and non-fiction writing I strive to describe the profound and mysterious influences of nature on the human heart and soul."