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	Eyewitness Guide Naples, Pompeii & Amalfi Coast  •   Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the region's attractions. Covering Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Amalfi coast, it focuses on culture, history and art. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (ITL107, $20.00)
	Pompeii, The Day a City Died  •  Robert Etienne ARCHAEOLOGY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 215 PAGES An illustrated pocket history of Pompeii and its archaeology. The great value of this comprehensive little book is Etienne's loving reconstruction of daily life in the city as told by its evocative frescoes, mosaics and other treasures. With a useful chronology, hundreds of illustrations and carefully chosen selection of writings over the ages, it's an indispensable guide to the archaeology and life of Pompeii. A volume in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series. (ITL01, $12.95)
	The Italians  •  Luigi Barzini CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1996 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES The definitive portrait of the Italian people, noteworthy for its insight, grace and wit. It's a classic, scholarly essay on the Italian character, still worthwhile though first published in 1964. Much historical information is included. Highly recommended. (ITL05, $16.00)
	Campania Region Map  •   Touring Club Italiano MAP A colorful map of Campania, including Naples and the Amalfi Coast at a scale of 1:200,000. (ITL116, $12.95)

	Ischia/Capri Map  •   Instituto Geografico De Agostini    •  A map of both Capri and Ischia at a scale of 1:28,000. (ITL500, $6.95)
	Naples Map  •   Touring Club Italiano    •  A good locally published map of Naples. (ITL280, $12.95)
	Sorrento Peninsula & Amalfi Coast Map  •   Litographia Artistica Cartographica    •  A detailed road map of the Sorrento Peninsula and Amalfi Coast, including Pompeii, Nocera and Salerno, with an inset map of Capri at a scale of 1:35,000, showing hiking trails, tracks, histroic buildings and attractions. With travel information on the reverse. (ITL432, $10.95)
	Fodor's Naples' Best  •   Fodor's Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A shirt-pocket guide to Naples, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant and sightseeing recommendations. (ITL594, $11.95)
	My Love for Naples  •  Anna Teresa Callen   • FOOD  •  A celebration of Neapolitan traditions and cooking, featuring 16 color plates and 250 recipes covering both the obscure and familiar, including buffalo mozzeralla, pizza and minestrone. (ITL869, $35.00)
	Naples at Table  •  Arthur Schwartz   • FOOD  •  A celebration of the food of Naples and Campania. Schwartz, host of "Foodtalk", covers not only the food (with over 100 recipes), but also the culture, history, and myths of the region. (ITL146, $32.95)
	Passion on the Vine, A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy  •  Sergio Esposito   • FOOD  •  Esposito writes warmly of his many sojourns in his native land as a child, wine merchant and connoisseur in this celebratory memoir. (ITL953, $24.95)
	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, $15.95)
	Gomorrah  •  Roberto Saviano  •  Virginia Jewiss   • HISTORY  •  Savaiano's expose of the Naples mob documents in graphic detail the depredations and violence of the killers, criminals and thugs of the Camorra. (ITL885, $25.00)
	Herculaneum: Italy's Buried Treasure  •  Joseph Jay Deiss   • HISTORY  •  An artful and wonderfully written description of ancient Herculaneum. (ITL41, $18.95)
	In the Shadow of Vesuvius  •  Jordan Lancaster   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • COMING IN DECEMBER  •  A sparkling portrait of Naples from its volcanic origins to its lively present. Lancaster's cultural history dwells on the spirit of the Neapolitans, as well as the many travelers drawn to the city's siren song. (ITL969, $16.95)
	Italy, A Short History  •  Harry Hearder   • HISTORY  •  Elegantly written, generous and enormously informative, this compact book takes in the sweep of Italian history from the Roman Republic through the Renaissance, World War II and up to the present. (ITL56, $24.99)
	La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind  •  Beppe Severgnini   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • NEW  •  Hugely popular in Italy, this guide to the Italian character addresses the apparently neverending passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. Severgnini opens the book with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa, moving on to Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia. (ITL718, $12.95)
	Modern Naples, A Documentary History, 1799-1999  •  John Santore   • HISTORY  •  A source book and history of Naples from its foundations to Bourbon Capital and unification. (ITL351, $25.00)
	Pompeii, Public and Private Life  •  Paul Zanker  •  Deborah Schneider   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A comprehensive guide to the architecture, people and culture of Pompeii, focusing on both grand public spaces and private villas. With 21 color illustrations and 55 halftones, including site plans, models, mosaics and sculpture. (ITL114, $26.50)
	Vesuvius A.D. 79  •  Giovanni Patricelli  •  Ernesto De Carolis   • HISTORY  •  An illustrated account of the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius drawing on science, report, literature and folklore. (ITL568, $29.95)
	Pompeii, The Living City  •  Alex Butterworth  •  Ray Laurence   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  A meticulous historical and archaeological reconstruction of the city of Pompeii, its people, culture and daily rituals both before and after 79 AD, the year of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. (ITL773, $27.95)
	Greene on Capri, A Memoir  •  Shirley Hazzard   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This book is ultimately a memoir about the author's friendship with Graham Greene, but there's plenty of commentary of Capri's history and culture for those seeking a flavor of the place. (ITL440, $15.00)
	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)
	Naples '44, A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy  •  Norman Lewis   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A classic book by one of the 20th century's great travel writers. Naples '44 is funny and moving, and ultimately a meditation on war and the indomitable character of the Italian people. (ITL603, $14.95)
	The Ancient Shore, Dispatches from Naples  •  Shirley Hazzard   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • COMING IN NOVEMBER  •  In this collection of her writing on Naples, Hazzard lyrically and lovingly meditates on the city's present and past, encountering along the way the ghosts of great writers. (ITL967, $18.00)
	Cosi Fan Tutti  •  Michael Dibdin   • MYSTERY  •  Romantic entanglements complicate the investigation of a murder in Naples in this installment of the enjoyable series. (ITL623, $12.95)
	Pompeii, A Novel  •  Robert Harris   • LITERATURE  •  A fast-paced historical novel set in Pompeii. A young engineer sets out to repair the Roman aqueducts and discovers the imminent eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Full of suspense and period detail. (ITL560, $7.99)
	The Seven Sisters  •  Margaret Drabble   • LITERATURE  •  A novel in diary form about an aging Englishwoman, Candida Wilton, who leaves rural life for gritty London when she divorces her husband. The second half of the book is about Candida's hilarious and emotional trip to Naples to see the city of Virgil's Aeneid. (ITL572, $14.00)
	The Volcano Lover, A Romance  •  Susan Sontag   • LITERATURE  •  A steamy and evocative historical novel by social critic Sontag, set in 18th-century Naples. The sweeping story focuses on the British Ambassador to the King in Naples, his passionate and notorious love, and her infatuation with Lord Nelson. (ITL143, $15.00)

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