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Italy: Tuscany
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
• Iris Origo
• Denis Mack Smith
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1995 •
PAPER
• 239 PAGES
Iris Origo records in diary entries the day-to-day heroism and fortitude of her family and workers at an estate in southern Tuscany during WWII. The family takes in children, escaped prisoners, soldiers, civilians and Jews all fleeing as the German army advances south toward their home, 100 miles north of Rome between Siena and lake Trasimene. Originally published in 1947, it's an engrossing chronicle that captures the immediacy of the war in Italy.
(ITL219, $14.95) |
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Eyewitness Guide Florence & Tuscany
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 336 PAGES
This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a neighborhood-by-neighborhood synopsis of the region's attractions.
(ITL46, $25.00) |
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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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Tuscany Map
• Touring Club Italiano
2011 •
MAP
A detailed map of Tuscany at a scale of 1:200,000. Imported from Italy. One Side. 54x37 inches.
(ITL102, $14.95) |
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Also Recommended
Fodor's Florence's 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map and essential information on the city's highlights, including sightseeing, restaurants and shopping.
(ITL140, $11.99)
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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 Culinary Traveller in Tuscany
• Beth Elon
• FOOD
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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)
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A Traveller's Wine Guide to Italy
• Stephen Hobley
• FOOD
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A slim but very informative, lavishly illustrated guide to the wines of Italy. It's a vineyard-by-vineyard guide, organized by region.
(ITL879, $19.95)
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Biba's Italy
• Biba Caggiano
• FOOD
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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
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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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The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy
• Hugh Johnson
• Nicholas Belfrage
• FOOD
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This astute guide to wine-making regions and villages in Tuscany includes a history of Tuscan grapes and culture, excellent color maps and profiles of select vintners and wines.
(ITA72, $39.95)
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The Food of Italy
• Waverly Root
• FOOD
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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)
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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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La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
• Beppe Severgnini
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• BEST SELLER
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Italians themselves love this guide to the Italian character, which addresses their 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)
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The Etruscans
• Graeme Barker
• Tom Rasmussen
• HISTORY
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This illustrated history incorporates the most recent archaeological evidence, bringing to life Etruscan culture, economics and innovations, and the artistic achievements and artifacts that continue to capture our imagination.
(ITL169, $47.95)
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The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany
• James Bentley
• Hugh Palmer
• HISTORY
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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, $26.95)
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The Renaissance, A Short History
• Paul Johnson
• HISTORY
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The history, background, literature, sculpture, paintings and architecture of the Renaissance in just over 200 lively, thought-provoking pages.
(ITL774, $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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Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves, An American Naturalist in Italy
• Gary Paul Nabhan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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
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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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Amazing Disgrace
• James Hamilton-Paterson
• LITERATURE
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Darker than Hamilton-Paterson's previous outing (Cooking With Fernet) starring Gerald Samper, this hilarious sequel skewers British pretension and the glories of expatriate life in Tuscany.
(ITL806, $14.95)
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Summer's Lease
• John Mortimer
• MYSTERY
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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)
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The Birth of Venus, A Novel
• Sarah Dunant
• LITERATURE
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A rich novel of art, passion and patronage, memorably set in late 15th-century Florence and prominently featuring the famously pious reformer Savonarola.
(ITL532, $15.00)
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Travelers' Tales Tuscany
• Tara Austen Weaver
• James O'Reilly
• ANTHOLOGY
• COMING IN
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An anthology of great excerpts from travel essays about Tuscany, with pieces from Saul Bellow, Frances Mayes and Ferenc Mate, among others.
(ITL315, $16.95)
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Tuscany For Beginners
• Imogen Edwards-Jones
• LITERATURE
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In this deliciously wicked tale, British novelist Edward-Jones skewers the pretensions of the English abroad, taking as her target the sodden proprietress of a mediocre B&B in Tuscany.
(ITL609, $13.95)
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Tuscany in Mind
• Alice Powers
• ANTHOLOGY
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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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