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Tuscany & Umbria Insider
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/WT21987. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 4 items are available
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Rough Guide Tuscany and Umbria
• Jonathan Buckley
• Tim Jepson
GUIDEBOOK •
2012 •
PAPER
• 836 PAGES
A no-nonsense, comprehensive travel guide with region-by-region descriptions and a good overview of history and culture. With chapters on Florence and surroundings, Lucca, Pisa, Maremma, Siena, Arezzo, Peruguia, Assisi, Spoleto and Orvieto.
(ITL292, $22.99) |
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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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Too Much Tuscan Sun, Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide
• Roberto Rodi
• Dario Castagno
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2004 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
Though not a native chiantigiano, Dario Castagno, residing in Italy since age ten, offers a memoir detailing his experiences as a tour guide in Tuscany. Castagno's ease and taste for the Chianti region combine to evoke intoxicating images of the much loved Tuscan hill towns.
(ITL547, $14.95) |
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Central Italy Map
• Touring Club Italiano
MAP
A regional map of Central Italy, including Tuscany, Umbria and Rome, at a scale of 1:400,000. One Side. 37x49 inches.
(ITL103, $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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Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Rick Steves
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This compact phrase book, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary, also includes Steves' insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world.
(ITL424, $8.95)
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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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Italy, A Short History
• Harry Hearder
• HISTORY
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Elegantly written, generous and 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, $29.00)
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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 Art of the Renaissance
• Peter Murray
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A classic, illustrated survey of the world of the Renaissance and its art. With chapters on Florence and its artists, the Netherlands, early illustrated books and many individual artists.
(ITL14, $18.95)
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A Day in Tuscany, More Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide
• Dario Castagno
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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This second book from Dario Castagno is a delightfully honest mix of memoirs from life in the hills of Tuscany's legendary Chianti region. Set on the day the author arrived home after a three-month tour of the United States promoting his first book, A Day in Tuscany compels readers to experience this enchanted corner of Italy through the heart and mind of a true Tuscan.
(ITL838, $18.95)
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A Valley in Italy, The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbria
• Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This short memoir chronicles a year in the small Umbrian village of San Orsola--especially the delights and frustrations of renovating a decayed villa. Taking in food, wine, local customs and landscapes, the book is an excellent introduction to the region
(ITL98, $14.99)
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D.H. Lawrence and Italy
• D.H. Lawrence
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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This omnibus Penguin Classics edition includes Lawrence's three travel tales, each very different in tone and all wonderful: Sea and Sardinia is a nostalgic look at traditional ways of life; Twilight in Italy, an evocation of Lawrence's memorable stay on Lake Garda; and Etruscan Places his musings on ancient sites, including the painted tombs of Tarquinia.
(ITL62, $18.00)
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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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On The Road with Francis of Assisi
• Linda Bird Francke
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Assisi wandered for 20 years, affording Newsweek editor Francke and her patient husband plenty to see and do in the piazzas, sanctuaries and chapels of Assisi, Siena, Bologna, Venice, Gubbio, Rome and other choice spots.
(ITL647, $15.95)
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Reluctant Saint, The Life of Francis of Assisi
• Donald Spoto
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Spoto draws on fascinating new research to explore the travels, spirit and work of the beloved saint. This engaging portrait provides an excellent overview of the life of St. Francis.
(ITL849, $16.00)
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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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Ratking
• Michael Dibdin
• MYSTERY
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Venetian crime investigator Aurelio Zen goes after the kidnappers of a Perugian industrialist in this enjoyable thriller, winner of the Gold Dagger Award (and first book in the series).
(ITL622, $13.95)
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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 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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Birds of Europe
• Lars Svensson
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps.
(FG47, $29.95)
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Wildflowers of Britain and Europe
• Margaret and Roland Spohn
• FIELD GUIDE
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Over 450 species of wild flower are covered, each beautifully illustrated with detailed paintings and clear photographs.
(EUR46, $21.95)
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