Birds of Europe
• Lars Svensson
FIELD GUIDE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 416 PAGES
• FAVORITE
This Princeton Field Guide features 3,500 illustrations by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom. Color plates depict every species -- and sometimes several different variants -- for 722 birds found from the Urals to the Atlantic, Scandinavia to the Middle East.
(FG47, $29.95) |
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Cadogan Guide Sicily
• Dana Facaros
GUIDEBOOK •
2008 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
A guidebook in the respected British Cadogan series, this comprehensive look at Sicily provides insightful cultural and historical background, and up-to-date practical information. The heart of the book contains region-by-region descriptions aimed at the well read traveler. With some illustrations and excellent maps.
(ITL115, $18.95) |
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Companion Guide Sicily
• Raleigh Trevelyan
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 624 PAGES
A new edition of the comprehensive, serious-minded guide to the architecture, art and culture of Sicily, combining descriptions of the major attractions, personal anecdote and references to writers over the ages.
(ITL04, $34.95) |
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Conversations in Sicily
• Elio Vittorini
• Alane Salierno Mason
• Ernest Hemingway
LITERATURE •
2000 •
PAPER
• 182 PAGES
A new translation of the groundbreaking modern classic about a young man who returns to Sicily for the first time in many years. With Hemingway's original 1949 introduction.
(ITL225, $13.95) |
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Excellent Cadavers
• Marco Turco
LITERATURE •
2008 •
DVD
Chronicles the efforts to take down the mafia during the Maxi Trials of the 1980s by Italian prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and their resulting assassinations. Based on Alexander Stille's masterful book.
(ITA261, $24.95) |
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Excellent Cadavers, The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
• Alexander Stille
HISTORY •
1996 •
PAPER
• 467 PAGES
As you might guess from the title, this fast-paced book is a gripping account of corruption in Italy. The author offers an utterly absorbing -- and impressively researched -- account of the assassination of two top anti-Mafia prosecutors in 1992. Opening in Palermo in 1876, the book is a richly detailed analysis of Italian culture, a portrait of the two brave men who were killed and a penetrating look at the Cosa Nostra and its influence on all levels of Italian society. Masterful.
(ITL58, $17.95) |
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The Foods of Sicily and Sardinia and the Smaller Islands
• John Dominis
• Giuliano Bugialli
FOOD •
2002 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
The acclaimed scholar and nominee for the James Beard Award for best Italian cookbook combs the countryside to present a truly authentic and comprehensive cuisine. These pages are brimming with plenty of recipes, as well as some great photographs of local scenery.
(ITL297, $37.50) |
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Footprint Italia Sicily
• Mary-Ann Gallagher
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
Featuring hundred of color photographs and maps, this informative guide balances an overview of nature, history and culture with practical travel information. With a popout map.
(ITA95, $21.95) |
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Frommer's Sicily
• Darwin Porter
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 342 PAGES
A practical guide in the popular series, strong on where to eat, sleep and shop.
(ITL894, $18.99) |
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Michelin Green Guide Sicily
• Jonathan Gilbert
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 448 PAGES
A comprehensive, practical guide in the Michelin series, organized alphabetically and featuring suggested tours and visitor sites along with detailed local and regional maps.
(ITL795, $21.99) |
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Frommer's Sicily Day by Day
• Adele Evans
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 182 PAGES
A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping. With a separate foldout map.
(ITA173, $12.99) |
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The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily
• Fausto Longo
• Lorena Jannelli
• Luca Cerchiai
HISTORY •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 288 PAGES
An engaging history of the Western Greek colonies in Sicily and southern Italy in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., featuring 240 magnificent color illustrations, maps and a site-by-site review of major archaeological sites.
(ITL751, $45.00) |
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A House in Sicily
• Daphne Phelps
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
An old-fashioned memoir of life at Casa Cuseni, the pensione and garden in Taormina run by the indomitable Daphne Phelps, which has been a sanctuary for Tennessee Williams, Betrand Russell and other guests, famous and infamous, since 1947.
(ITL148, $16.95) |
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Il Postino
• Michael Radford
1995 •
DVD
The Italian comic actor Massino Troisi stars as a shy Italian postman living in a small fishing village on a Mediterranean island off the coast of Italy who learns the ways of poetry and romance while delivering mail to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. In Italian with subtitles.
(ITL541, $19.99) |
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Insight Guide Sicily
• Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
A handsomely illustrated guide to the history, culture and attractions of Sicily and surrounding islands for the traveler featuring dozens of full color maps, hundreds of photographs and short essays on topics of interest. Mary Taylor Simeti contributed the sections on food and the Egadi Islands. The middle of the book is a detailed guide to the island with a focus on ancient sites.
(ITL168, $19.99) |
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Italian Journey, 1786-1788
• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• W.H. Auden
• Elizabeth Meyer
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1992 •
PAPER
• 498 PAGES
The journals and letters from Goethe's 'grand tour' of southern Italy as a 37-year-old. There's some serious intellectual sledding here, but in addition to his musing on philosophy and art, Gooethe includes some wonderful writing on the Italian landscape. And it's all made easier by a lovely translation by W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Meyer.
(ITL144, $18.00) |
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Malena
• Giuseppe Tornatore
LITERATURE •
2005 •
DVD
In a sleepy Sicilian town during World War II, Malena's husband goes off to war, leaving her alone and subject to the advances of lustful village men and the jealousy and resentment of their women. A young boy develops secret feelings for Malena as he watches her quiet courage and poise in the face of adversity and loneliness.
(ITA263, $14.99) |
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Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief
• Dorothy Gilman
MYSTERY •
1995 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
This time unlikely CIA agent Mrs. Pollifax takes off to Sicily to rescue a former agent who was shot while stealing a document bearing Julius Caesar's signature.
(ITA192, $7.99) |
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National Geographic Sicily
• Tim Jepson
GUIDEBOOK •
2008 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
This guide to Sicily, published in National Geographic's attractive, visual style, features hundreds of photographs, full color maps and useful information on history, nature, culture and travel.
(ITL658, $19.95) |
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The Norman Kingdom of Sicily
• Donald Matthew
HISTORY •
1996 •
PAPER
• 434 PAGES
A compelling scholarly overview the history culture, art and religion of medieval Sicily in the Cambridge Medieval Textbook series.
(ITL702, $48.00) |
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Palermo City Map
MAP
A walking map of the city at 1:10,000, published in Italy.
(ITA181, $12.95) |
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The Patience of the Spider
• Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri
LITERATURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
Book number eight in Camilleri's series, starring the world-weary, earthy -- aging not so gracefully -- Inspector Montalbano (made into a wildly popular television series in Italy).
(ITL826, $14.00) |
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The Potter's Field
• Andrea Camilleri
LITERATURE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
Lucky book 13 in 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.
(ITA269, $15.00) |
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Reversible Destiny, Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
• Peter Schneider
• Jane Schneider
HISTORY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 339 PAGES
A lucid and informed history of the Sicilian Mafia focusing on the rise of the antimafia movement in Palermo and its triumphs and shortcomings.
(ITA227, $28.95) |
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Rough Guide Sicily
• Rough Guide
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 496 PAGES
A comprehensive edgy guide to Sicily in the British series with an equal focus on culture, history and travel information.
(ITL161, $22.00) |
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The Sand-Reckoner
• Gillian Bradshaw
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 351 PAGES
A fictional biography of the young mathematician Archimedes, who is called home to Syracuse where his father is ill and the city is at war with the Romans.
(ITA214, $16.99) |
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The Sicilian Girl
• Marco Amenta
LITERATURE •
2010 •
DVD
Based on a true story, after her father and brother are murdered by the Mafia, seventeen-year-old Rita Atria provides evidence of mob activity in her town to an investigative judge, and finds her days are numbered from that moment on.
(ITA260, $29.95) |
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Sicilian Odyssey
• Francine Prose
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 192 PAGES
Novelist Francine Prose tries her hand at travel writing in this lyrical, vibrant and concise portrait of Sicily. Prose evokes Sicily's history, art, landscape and cuisine through considerations of her own journey across the island -- blurring the divide between past and present. Includes Prose's own photographs. A volume in the National Geographic Directions series.
(ITL451, $20.00) |
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Sicily, Culinary Crossroads
• Giuseppe Coria
FOOD •
2008 •
PAPER
• 207 PAGES
Coria has researched, unravelled, and brilliantly presented Sicily's past for us through the gaze of a gastronome, historian, folklorist, and cultural anthropologist, tracing the food of Sicily though its history, tracing the contributions of the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans and other colonists and invaders in 155 well-documented recipes. Coria's recipes invite us into the kitchens of medieval landowners and convents, peasant farmers, shepherds, and fishermen.Translated for the first time into English, this is an Italian book written for Italians with the specific mission of documenting local, regional traditions.
(ITA280, $24.95) |
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Siracusa Map
• Litographia Artistica Cartographica
MAP
A provincial road map of Siracusa (Syracuse), Sicily at a scale of 1:150,000. Two Sides. 28x19 inches.
(ITL592, $12.95) |
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The Terracotta Dog
• Andrea Camilleri
MYSTERY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
Number two in the wildly popular Inspector Montalbano series. Among its many pleasures is Camilleri's wry send-up of Sicilian society and politics.
(ITL529, $14.00) |
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The Track of Sand
• Stephen Sartarelli
• Andrea Camilleri
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
Book 12 in Camilleri's series (made into a wildly popular television series in Italy) again stars the world-weary and food-loving Inspector Montalbano. After he comes across a bludgeoned horse and his seaside home is ransacked, Montalbano must investigate Sicily's horseracing subculture and its connections to the Mafia.
(ITA166, $14.00) |
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A Vittorini Omnibus
• Elio Vittorini
• Ernest Hemingway
LITERATURE •
1973 •
PAPER
• 308 PAGES
Three short novels by one of Sicily's modern masters, including Vittorini's classic tale of a sophisticated man who returns to his native village, "In Sicily." Rounding out the collection is "La Garibaldina" and "Twilight of the Elephant."
(ITL10, $18.95) |
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Volcanoes, Crucibles of Change
• Richard Fisher
NATURAL HISTORY •
1998 •
PAPER
• 344 PAGES
A complete primer for the volcano lover, this heavily illustrated book covers types of volcanoes and eruptions, worldwide distribution and the physics of their formation. From geysers and fumeroles to pyroclastic eruptions, this book is an excellent guide. With profiles of 40 sites around the world, 125 illustrations -- and a concluding chapter on "The Volcano Traveler."
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The Wings of the Sphinx
• Andrea Camilleri
MYSTERY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 264 PAGES
Camilleri's 11th mordant, witty Sicilian mystery in which 56-year-old Inspector Montalbano is not only investigating the death of a young women but also working out his differences with girlfriend Livia.
(ITA117, $14.00) |
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Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons, Travels in Sicily on a Vespa
• Matthew Fort
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2009 •
HARD COVER
• 336 PAGES
A food writer who became obsessed with Sicily after visitng as a young man makes his long-planned return three decades later, traveling the countryside by scooter in search of good food, natural beauty, and Sicily's culture and dark past.
(ITA20, $24.95) |
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La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
• Beppe Severgnini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2007 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
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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Sicily, Three Thousand Years of Human History
• Sandra Benjamin
HISTORY •
2007 •
PAPER
• 498 PAGES
Standing at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, waves of settlers and conquerors -- Phonecians, Greeks and Romans, Arab traders, Normans, the Hapsburs and Bourbons -- have left their mark on Sicily, a history which Benjamin recounts with clarity and authority.
(ITL731, $19.95) |
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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) |
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