In Search of Kings by Tony De Bolfo

In Search of Kings

What Became of the Passengers of the Re D’Italia

by Tony De Bolfo

HarperCollins Publishers, 2002, ISBN 0732275733, black and white photographic plates, large c-format paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges, and corners, no inscriptions, age toned pages (See photographs)

“In 1994, Melbourne journalist Tony De Bolfo began to wonder what had prompted his grandfather and two great-uncles to leave their homeland in northern Italy for a new life in Australia.  He turned to his great-uncle Igino – the only surviving member of the original trio who undertook that arduos forty-six day voyage aboard the steamship Re d’Italia (King of Italy) in 1927.
But what began as simple curiosity became an overwhelming obsession for Tony, which led him on his own voyage of discovery. Working from the original passenger list, he set out to reconstruct the life stories of the 105 men, women and children who accompanied his forebears down the gangway, into the unknown.”