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Enrich your travels with reading! Here's a hand-picked list prepared for your journey in conjunction with the book experts at Longitude.

Essential Reading

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Tuscan Country, A Photographer's Journey

by Wes Walker

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2007
HARD COVER
160 PAGES

Walker captures the allure of the hill towns, including Siena, Lucca, Pisa and smaller cities and villages in 100 luminous color photographs. (ITL848, $29.95)

Tuscany Map

by Touring Club Italiano

2011
MAP

A detailed map at a scale of 1:200,000. Imported from Italy. (ITL102, $14.95)

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Fodor's Florence's 25 Best

by Fodor's

GUIDEBOOK
2011
PAPER
128 PAGES

This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map and essential information on the city's highlights, including sightseeing, restaurants and shopping. (ITL140, $11.99)

Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide

by Laura Morelli

GUIDEBOOK
2008
PAPER
208 PAGES

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)

The Food Lover's Guide to Florence, With Culinary Excursions in Tuscany

by Emily Wise Miller

GUIDEBOOK
2007
PAPER

Miller polled neighbors, friends, cooks and ordinary folk for this delectable guide to 125 eateries, organized by neighborhood. (ITL841, $14.99)

Walking

by Henry David Thoreau

REFERENCE
1994
PAPER
92 PAGES

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)

Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria

by James Ladsun | Pia Davis

GUIDEBOOK
2005
PAPER
394 PAGES

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)

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany

by Beth Elon

FOOD
2009
PAPER
320 PAGES

A resident in Tuscany for 30 years, 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)

Biba's Italy

by Biba Caggiano

FOOD
2006
HARD COVER
320 PAGES

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)

Piano, Piano, Pieno

by Susan Mckenna Grant

FOOD
2008
HARD COVER
448 PAGES

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)

The Food of Italy

by Waverly Root

FOOD
1992
PAPER
750 PAGES

Evocative of Italy and its diverse cuisine, this classic book, organized geographically, offers a cook's tour of the country. It's a well-informed and wonderful culinary guide. (ITL75, $22.00)

La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind

by Beppe Severgnini

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2007
PAPER
288 PAGES

Italians themselves love this guide to the Italian character, which 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, $14.00)

The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany

by James Bentley | Hugh Palmer

HISTORY
1997
HARD COVER
224 PAGES

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)

Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves, An American Naturalist in Italy

by Gary Paul Nabhan

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1994
PAPER
256 PAGES

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)

Under the Tuscan Sun

by Frances Mayes

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
1997
PAPER
288 PAGES

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)

Summer's Lease

by John Mortimer

MYSTERY
1991
PAPER
288 PAGES

A well-paced mystery set in the Tuscan countryside, by Sir John Morimer, author of Rumpole of the Bailey. Poor Molly Pargeter's idyll is upset when the water supply fails and a neighbor dies. John Gielgud starred in the Masterpiece Theatre adaptation as the seriously mischievous Haverford Downs. (ITL580, $18.00)

Tuscany in Mind

by Alice Powers

ANTHOLOGY
2005
PAPER
400 PAGES

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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