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A Week in...Rome, Capri & the Amalfi Coast
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Eyewitness Guide Naples & Amalfi Coast
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 256 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, $25.00) |
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La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
• Beppe Severgnini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2007 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
• BEST SELLER
Hugely popular in Italy, this witty guide to the Italian character addresses the apparently never-ending Italian passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. An Italian journalist, Severgnini opens with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa Airport, taking the unwary reader firmly by the hand on a journey to Milan,Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia. He hilariously points out Italian rituals and quirks from the highway to hotels, bedrooms, restaurants, the office and beach.
(ITL718, $14.00) |
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Fodor's Rome's 25 Best
• Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK •
2012 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
A shirt-pocket guide to Rome, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing -- all in a slipcover.
(ITL112, $12.99) |
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Southern Italy Map
• Touring Club Italiano
MAP
A regional map of Italy, stretching from Rome to the southern tip, at a scale of 1:400,000. Features topographical relief. Two Sides. 37x58 inches.
(ITL222, $14.95) |
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Also Recommended
Sorrento Peninsula & Amalfi Coast Map
• Litographia Artistica Cartographica
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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, historic buildings and attractions. With travel information on the reverse.
(ITL432, $13.99)
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Culture Smart! Italy
• Charles Abbott
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, no-nonsense guide to Italian customs, etiquette and culture along with helpful travel advice.
(ITL877, $9.95)
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Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook
• Lonely Planet
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A handy palm-size phrasebook for the traveler.
(ITL531, $8.99)
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Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide
• Laura Morelli
• GUIDEBOOK
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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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A Traveller's History of Italy
• Valerio Lintner
• HISTORY
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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)
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Italianissimo
• Louise Fili
• Lise Apatoff
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Divertingly illustrated, this A-to-Z guide profiles 50 very Italian customs and concepts from the notion of beauty (bellisimo) to the Italian disregard for lines (Fare La Coda).
(ITL983, $19.95)
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Pompeii, Public and Private Life
• Paul Zanker
• Deborah Schneider
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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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, $32.50)
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Ancient Rome: Art, Architecture, and History
• Ada Gabucci
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This lively, illustrated survey of Ancient Rome's monuments, history and art is a terrific introduction.
(ITL419, $19.95)
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
• Ross King
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Presented with flair and backed by a wealth of research, King's captivating chronicle of Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel tells the story of its conception and creation.
(ITL464, $18.00)
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Greene on Capri, A Memoir
• Shirley Hazzard
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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Italian Days
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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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)
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La Bella Lingua
• Dianne Hales
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• NEW
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Inebriated with the sounds of Italian, lovesick for its phrases and enamored of its earthy idioms, Hales, "a sensible woman of sturdy Polish stock," dives into the Italian of the piazza, literature, movies and streets in this charming memoir.
(ITA26, $15.00)
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The Ancient Shore
• Shirley Hazzard
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Hazzard's lyrical collection of essays on the history, beauty, complexities and contradictions of Naples. Includes a celebrated New Yorker essay by husband Francis Steegmuller.
(ITL967, $13.00)
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Cabal
• Michael Dibdin
• MYSTERY
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Zen is called to the Vatican to investigate the death of Prince Ludovico Ruspanti, who plunged from the roof of St. Peter's Basilica.
(ITL620, $13.95)
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Cosi Fan Tutti
• Michael Dibdin
• MYSTERY
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Romantic entanglements complicate the investigation of a murder in Naples in this installment of the enjoyable series.
(ITL623, $13.95)
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Italy in Mind
• Alice Powers
• LITERATURE
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A terrific collection of some of the best literary writing on Italy, including pieces by Melville, Lawrence, Henry James, Mary McCarthy and many others.
(ITL39, $17.95)
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Italy, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• Lawrence Venuti
• ANTHOLOGY
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Not just a literary companion, this anthology is also a who's who of contemporary Italian writers that captures the spirit, history and allure of the country.
(ITL466, $14.95)
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Pompeii, A Novel
• Robert Harris
• LITERATURE
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In this 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)
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Sailing to Capri
• Elizabeth Adler
• MYSTERY
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Bestselling author Adler weaves a suspenseful tale of a cruise, where nothing is what it seems, no one is telling the truth, and murder happens.
(ITL965, $14.99)
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The House in Amalfi
• Elizabeth Adler
• MYSTERY
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Master of suspense and romance, Adler deftly intertwines lush descriptions of place with fast-paced intrigue in her 16th novel, set in Amalfi.
(ITL966, $6.99)
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The Volcano Lover, A Romance
• Susan Sontag
• LITERATURE
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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, $16.00)
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