Sea and Sardinia

Sea and Sardinia is a travel book written by D. H. Lawrence and first published in 1921.

This story is an accompaniment to the journey the author made with his wife from Sicily, Italy, to the island of Sardinia in 1921.

In it, he documents every detail along the way, capturing the impressions each place gives him and the anecdotes of the people he meets along the way.

Lawrence describes in detail the landscapes, traditions, and interactions with the locals, showing both his fascination and his often critical view of local customs.

"Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
Why can't one sit still? Here in Sicily it is so pleasant: the sunny Ionian sea, the changing jewel of Calabria, like a fire-opal moved in the light; Italy and the panorama of Christmas clouds, night with the dog-star laying a long, luminous gleam across the sea, as if baying at us, Orion marching above; how the dog-star Sirius looks at one, looks at one! he is the hound of heaven, green, glamorous and fierce!—and then oh regal evening star, hung westward flaring over the jagged dark precipices of tall Sicily: then Etna, that wicked witch, resting her thick white snow under heaven, and slowly, slowly rolling her orange-coloured smoke."