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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $63, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXITL682)		  
A Traveller's History of Italy  •  Valerio Lintner
HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 287 PAGES
A brief history of Italy through the 1990s -- wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through the centuries. (ITL86, $14.95)		   A Traveller's History of Italy
Venturing in Italy, Travels in Puglia, the Land of Two Seas  •  Barb Euser
ANTHOLOGY •  2009 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES
This collection of 30 true tales by contemporary writers and journalists celebrates the people, places and history of Puglia. (ITA14, $14.95)		   Venturing in Italy, Travels in Puglia, the Land of Two Seas
Lonely Planet Southern Italy  •  Paula Hardy
GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 286 PAGES
In the haxllmark Lonely Planet style, this guide to Now: Lonely Planet Southern italy, covering Puglia, Basilicata & Calabria, Sicily, Naples & Campania features good maps, an overview of culture, history and nature and much nitty-gritty information for visiting. (ITL978, $21.99)		   Lonely Planet Southern Italy
Puglia Map  •  Touring Club Italiano
MAP
The locals' map of Puglia, at a scale of 1:200,000. One Side. 37x54 inches. (ITL425, $14.95)		   Puglia Map



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Blue Guide Southern Italy  •  Paul Blanchard   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to Southern Italy and especially its archaeology, history and culture. With maps and site plans. Blanchard, a popular tour guide, is also the author of the Blue Guide to Northern Italy. (ITL257, $34.95)
 		  
Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook  •  Lonely Planet   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy palm-size phrasebook for the traveler. (ITL531, $8.99)
 		  
Honey from a Weed, Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, The Cyclades and Apulia  •  Patience Gray   • FOOD  •  A knowledgeable, unfussy grand tour of the Mediterranean, its history and its foodstuffs, by Patience Gray, who traveled to Catalonia, the Cyclades, Apulia/Puglia and Tuscany. (ITL426, $39.95)
 		  
Between Salt Water and Holy Water, A History of Southern Italy  •  Tommaso Astarita   • HISTORY  •  Astarita captures the fanfare, rivalry and changing fortunes of Sicily from antiquity through Norman, Spanish and Bourbon rule to unification and the 20th century. (ITL597, $22.95)
 		  
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Italian Days  •  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  Grizzuti Harrison writes with warmth and depth of her journey from Milan south to Calabria in this sprightly account of Italy and the Italians. (ITL02, $15.00)
 		  
Old Puglia, A Portrait of South Eastern Italy  •  Desmond Seward   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Seward weaves history and incident, accounts by past visitors and his own travelers, in this charming portrait of the ancient towns, life and people of Puglia. (ITA80, $19.95)
 		  
Casa Rossa  •  Francesca Marciano   • LITERATURE  •  A vivid novel following the lives of a mother, daughter, and granddaughter from Puglia over the course of the 20th century, opening as the narrator prepares to sell Casa Rossa, the family farm. (ITL534, $14.95)
 		  
Falcon of Palermo  •  Maria R. Bordihn   • LITERATURE  •  This lively fictionalized account of the life of Frederick II illuminates his epic struggle to regain control of the Roman Empire in the 13th-century, his complex relationship with the Church and his lusty appetite for both women and power. (ITA15, $15.00)
 		  
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The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story  •  Horace Walpole   • LITERATURE  •  First published in 1764, Walpole's classic Gothic novel takes place in and around the 15th-century castle on the Adriatic. (ITL631, $8.95)
 		  
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