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Insight Guide Tuscany
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
2006
PAPER
304 PAGES
An illustrated guide in this popular series, noteworthy for its maps and illuminating short essays on Tuscan food, history and culture.
(ITL156, $18.95) |
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Tuscan Country, A Photographer's Journey
Wes Walker
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2007
HARD COVER
160 PAGES
Wes Walker captures the allure of the hill towns, vineyards, fields and villages in 100 luminous color photographs. Literary excerpts from the works of both Italian writers and literary visitors accompany the photographs, including Italo Calvino, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Frances Mayes.
(ITL848, $29.95) |
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The Tuscan Year, Tuscan Life and Food in an Italian Valley
Elizabeth Romer
FOOD
1996
PAPER
182 PAGES
FAVORITE
An intimate portrait of life on a Tuscan farm, as seen primarily through the robust food. Romer captures the goings-on in the countryside, and especially in the Cerotti kitchen, where traditional Tuscan rural food is prepared with loving care. Every chapter includes concisely described recipes. The index makes it easy to look up recipes if you're inspired to use this wonderful account as a cookbook.
(ITL131, $14.00) |
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Travelers' Tales Tuscany
Tara Austen Weaver
James O'Reilly
ANTHOLOGY
2002
PAPER
222 PAGES
Well-chosen true stories from quality contemporary authors is what this anthology of travel writing and essays about Tuscany, including excerpts from works by Saul Bellow, Matthew Spender, Ferenc Mate, Frances Mayes and Barbara Grizzuti Harrison among others.
(ITL315, $16.95) |
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Tuscany Map
Touring Club Italiano
MAP
A fine and detailed regional map of Tuscany at a scale of 1:200,000. The most detailed map of the region available, imported from Italy. One Side. 54x37 inches.
(ITL102, $12.95) |
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Fodor's Florence's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map and essential information on the city's highlights, including sightseeing, restaurants and shopping.
(ITL140, $11.95) |
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Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide
Laura Morelli
GUIDEBOOK
The second edition of Morelli's expert survey of handcrafted Italian shops and products from Murano glass to ceramics, jewelry and leather.
(ITL473, $24.95) |
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The Food Lover's Guide to Florence, With Culinary Excursions in Tuscany
Emily Wise Miller
GUIDEBOOK
Miller polled neighbors, friends, cooks and ordinary folk for this delectable guide to 125 eateries, organized by neighborhood.
(ITL841, $14.95) |
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Walking
Henry David Thoreau
REFERENCE
Slip this pocket edition of Thoreau's meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel in your daypack for inspiration.
(WLK04, $9.99) |
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Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria
James Ladsun
Pia Davis
GUIDEBOOK
A practical guide to walking and eating your way through the region, this book includes 40 suggested itineraries, mostly day hikes, with maps, details on local attractions, and illustrations.
(ITL97, $20.00) |
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A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany
Beth Elon
FOOD
A resident in Tuscany for 30 years, Beth Elon presents 100 recipes from a hand-picked selection of favorite restaurants in this charming cookbook and travel guide. With 10 itineraries highlighting largely undiscovered regions of Tuscany, restaurants, trattorie, shops, wineries, olive oil producers, markets and food festivals.
(ITL729, $17.95) |
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Biba's Italy
Biba Caggiano
FOOD
Ms. Caggiano focuses on regional, seasonal food in this omnibus cookbook (featuring 100 recipes), menu planner and travel guide to Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan and Venice. Nicely produced, this handsome sepia-toned book includes recommended restaurants, cafes and markets in each city.
(ITL777, $29.95) |
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Piano, Piano, Pieno
Susan Mckenna Grant
FOOD
The title, "slowly, slowly, full" in Italian, sums up the cooking style advocated by Grant, an organic farmer in Tuscany, who brings together 200 authentic recipes in this lovingly-produced cookbook.
(ITL975, $40.00) |
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La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
Beppe Severgnini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
BEST SELLER
Hugely popular in Italy, this guide to the Italian character addresses the apparently never-ending passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. Severgnini opens the book with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa Airport, then moves on to Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia.
(ITL718, $12.95) |
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The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany
James Bentley
Hugh Palmer
HISTORY
This handsome oversize picture book is a portrait of the Tuscan landscape and people. It contains maps, a travel guide and many color photographs.
(ITL261, $40.00) |
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Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves, An American Naturalist in Italy
Gary Paul Nabhan
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The author, a poet and naturalist, heads along the Franciscan Way from Florence to Assisi. This most unusual travelogue combines natural history, spirituality and a lively appreciation of local food and food traditions. A print-on-demand paperback.
(ITL99, $16.00) |
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Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
In this best-selling memoir of buying, renovating and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Mayes reveals the sensual pleasures found in rural Italy.
(ITL85, $15.00) |
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Tuscany in Mind
Alice Powers
ANTHOLOGY
A fine literary anthology covering the region's history, geography, culture and (of course) food, featuring contributions by luminaries including D.H. Lawrence and Robert Browning.
(ITL607, $14.95) |
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Summer's Lease
John Mortimer
MYSTERY
The protagonist's idyll is upset when the water supply fails and a neighbor dies. A well-paced mystery set in the Tuscan countryside, by the author of Rumpole of the Bailey.
(ITL580, $15.00) |
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