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Mediterranean by Cruise Ship

by Anne Vipond

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 368 PAGES

The best-selling, compact guide, featuring excellent local maps, hundreds of color photographs, concise background information and recommended excursions for ports-of-call throughout the Mediterranean. (MED34, $21.95)

A Year in the World, Journeys of a Passionate Traveler

by Frances Mayes

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2007
• PAPER
• 420 PAGES

A warm account of mostly Mediterranean travels -- Spain, Portugal, Greece, Sicily, Capri, Sardinia, the Turkish Coast, Naples, Burgundy, Scotland -- arranged by season. (TVL109, $15.00)

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)

Mediterranean Cruises Map

by Freytag & Berndt

• 2010
• MAP

A double-sided, full-color map of the Mediterranean, including the Iberian Peninsula and Black Sea, North Africa and the Levant, at a scale of 1:2,000,000. (MED36, $14.95)

 

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Eyewitness Guide Italy

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• FLEXI-BOUND
• 720 PAGES

This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. (ITL32, $30.00)

Fodor's Barcelona's 25 Best

by Fodors

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 96 PAGES

This handy pocket guide includes an excellent map and essential information for a making the most of a short visit. (SPN136, $11.99)

Fodor's Naples' 25 Best

by Michael Buttler

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 128 PAGES
• COMING IN JUNE

This shirt-pocket guide includes a map of the city and essential information on its highlights (ITL594, $11.99)

La Bella Lingua

by Dianne Hales

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2010
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES
• NEW

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)

On Persephone's Island

by Mary Taylor Simeti

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1986
• PAPER
• 352 PAGES

Strong on the delights of rural life, Simeti's portrait of Sicily takes the form of a yearlong journal, capturing the spirit of the people, daily life, traditions and the land. (ITL03, $14.95)

Pompeii, Public and Private Life

by Paul Zanker | Deborah Schneider

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1999
• PAPER
• 250 PAGES

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)

The Ancient Mediterranean

by Michael Grant

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1990
• PAPER
• 374 PAGES

Grant explores the realms of archaeology, geography, art and economics to sketch this classic portrait of the ancient world, from prehistory through the Roman Imperium, and the influence on western civilization. (MED10, $20.00)

The Mediterranean in History

by David Abulafia

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2011
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

A professor at Cambridge, David Abulafia leads a team of eight historians in this engaging, richly illustrated overview of the civilizations, societies and grand themes in the history of this great sea at the heart of Europe. Published in conjunction with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the book features 150 well-integrated color and 150 black-and-white illustrations. (MED79, $29.95)

The Middle Sea

by John Julius Norwich

• HISTORY
• 2007
• PAPER
• 720 PAGES

A marvelous writer who has already tackled Byzantium, the Normans in Sicily and Venice, Norwich spins his magic in this story of culture, trade and politics, royalty and rulers, wars and religion in the Mediterranean. (MED98, $21.00)

Cezanne

by Mary Tompkins Lewis

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2001
• PAPER
• 352 PAGES

A well-illustrated introduction to Cezanne's life and works in the stimulating Art and Ideas series by Phaidon, featuring 193 color and 13 black and white illustrations. (FRN508, $22.95)

Italy, Monuments Past and Present

by R.A. Staccioli

• ARCHAEOLOGY
• 2003
• FLEXI-BOUND
• 78 PAGES

This informative volume shows Italy's most important monuments as they look today and, via overlaid illustrations, as they were once upon a time. The book surveys the history and archeological highlights of Pompeii, Rome and Sicily. (ITL455, $25.00)

Rough Guide Mediterranean Cafe Music

by Various Artists

• MUSIC
• 2004
• AUDIO CD

A carefully chosen sampling of the diverse sounds of the cafe culture along the Mediterranean coasts, including music of Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt. (MED100, $14.98)

A Year in Provence

by Peter Mayle

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1991
• PAPER
• 207 PAGES

The original best-selling tale of settling down in Provence, told with warmth and a great deal of humor. It offers a wonderful inside look at the charms and quirks of the people and the countryside in the south of France. (FRN19, $14.95)

Bella Tuscany, The Sweet Life in Italy

by Frances Mayes

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2000
• PAPER
• 286 PAGES

In this sequel to "Under the Tuscan Sun," best-selling author Frances Mayes goes out in search of Italian Life in the small town of Cortona. (ITL224, $15.00)

Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 1987
• PAPER
• 234 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Orwell's portrait of the Barcelona uprising and the spirit of a city at war is a classic, an observant and heartfelt report from the streets. (SPN03, $14.00)

In Tuscany

by Bob Krist | Frances Mayes

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2000
• HARD COVER
• 269 PAGES

An edition of Maye's warm, anecdotal account of life on her now-restored Tuscan estate, much enhanced by Bob Krist's color photographs. (ITL348, $35.00)

Italian Days

by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1998
• PAPER
• 479 PAGES
• 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)

Midnight in Sicily, On Art, Food, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra

by Peter Robb

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2007
• PAPER
• 400 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Combining interviews, research and essays on Sicilian history and culture, this vivid report by journalist Peter Robb is a superb introduction to Italy's glorious, corrupt and troubled south. (ITL74, $18.00)

Two Towns in Provence

by M. F. K. Fisher

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 1983
• PAPER
• 208 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Celebrated food writer M.F.K. Fisher contrasts village life in Aix-en-Provence with bustling Marseilles, evoking both with anecdote and loving description. (FRN27, $16.95)

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)

Cosi Fan Tutti

by Michael Dibdin

• MYSTERY
• 1998
• PAPER
• 247 PAGES

Romantic entanglements complicate the investigation of a murder in Naples in this installment of the enjoyable series. (ITL623, $13.95)

Mediterranean Passages, Readings from Dido to Derrida

by Grant Parker | Miriam Cooke | Erdag Goknar

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2008
• PAPER
• 416 PAGES

This compendium highlights 3,000 years of cultural exchange around the Mediterranean. With an assortment of maps, architectural drawings, photographs, paintings and historical and literary texts, it brings antiquity into conversation with the present. (MED139, $27.95)

The Leopard

by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

• LITERATURE
• 2007
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Evoking a lost world of privilege and tradition, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa's memorable tale, set on a rural Sicilian estate during the days of independence, follows the world-weary Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina. A classic, now in a 50th anniversary edition. (ITL11, $16.00)

The Shape of Water

by Andrea Camilleri

• MYSTERY
• 2005
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES

The first of Camilleri's wildly popular Inspector Montalbano mysteries, nicely translated and shot through (pun intended) with not just memorable characters but also with Sicilian lore and politics. If you like the series, it continues in 12 more installments -- and counting. (ITL528, $14.00)

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