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Birds of Europe

Birds of Europe


by Lars Svensson

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES
  • FAVORITE

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)

Cadogan Guide Sicily

Cadogan Guide Sicily


by Dana Facaros

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

A comprehensive look at the region from the excellent British guidebook series. (ITL115, $18.95)

Companion Guide Sicily

Companion Guide Sicily


by Raleigh Trevelyan

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 624 PAGES

This comprehensive, serious-minded guide to the architecture, art and culture of Sicily, combines descriptions of the major attractions with Trevelyan's many anecdotes and references to writers over the ages who have been enchanted by the island of Sicily. (ITL04, $34.95)

Conversations in Sicily

Conversations in Sicily


by 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)

Excellent Cadavers


by 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)

Excellent Cadavers, The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic

Excellent Cadavers, The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic


by Alexander Stille

  • HISTORY
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 467 PAGES

This fast-paced book is a gripping account of corruption in Italy. The author offers an utterly absorbing account of the assassination of two top anti-Mafia prosecutors in 1992. (ITL58, $17.95)

The Foods of Sicily and Sardinia and the Smaller Islands

The Foods of Sicily and Sardinia and the Smaller Islands


by John Dominis | Giuliano Bugialli

  • FOOD
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Bugialli presents a truly authentic and comprehensive cuisine in these illustrated pages, including not just recipes but also wonderful photography and cultural notes. (ITL297, $37.50)

Footprint Italia Sicily

Footprint Italia Sicily


by Mary-Ann Gallagher

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Lively, compact and illustrated, this guide will help you decide where to go and what to do. (ITA95, $21.95)

Frommer's Sicily

Frommer's Sicily


by 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)

Michelin Green Guide Sicily

Michelin Green Guide Sicily


by Jonathan Gilbert

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

Organized alphabetically and featuring Michelin's famous star ratings, this venerable driving guide includes excellent local maps and site plans, suggested tours and visitor sites. (ITL795, $21.99)

Frommer's Sicily Day by Day


by 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)

The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily

The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily


by 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)

A House in Sicily

A House in Sicily


by 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)

Il Postino


by Michael Radford

  • 1995
  • DVD

A shy Italian postman who learns the ways of poetry and romance while delivering mail to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. (ITL541, $19.99)

Insight Guide Sicily

Insight Guide Sicily


by 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. (ITL168, $19.99)

Italian Journey, 1786-1788

Italian Journey, 1786-1788


by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | W.H. Auden | Elizabeth Meyer

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1992
  • PAPER
  • 498 PAGES

"Sicily is the key to everything" is only one of Goethe's many astute observations included in this Penguin Classics edition of his journals and letters from his grand tour of southern Italy. (ITL144, $18.00)

Malena


by Giuseppe Tornatore

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • DVD

A young boy develops secret feelings for Malena as he watches her quiet courage and poise in the face of adversity in this film, set in a Sicilian fishing village during World War II. (ITA263, $14.99)

Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief

Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief


by 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)

National Geographic Sicily

National Geographic Sicily


by 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)

The Norman Kingdom of Sicily


by Donald Matthew

  • HISTORY
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 434 PAGES

A compelling scholarly overview the history culture, art and religion of medieval Sicily. (ITL702, $48.00)

Palermo City Map

Palermo City Map


by

  • MAP

A walking map of the city at 1:10,000 (ITA181, $12.95)

The Patience of the Spider

The Patience of the Spider


by Stephen Sartarelli | Andrea Camilleri

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Book number eight in Camilleri's series, starring the world-weary, earthy -- and now aging not so gracefully -- Inspector Montalbano (made into a wildly popular television series in Italy). (ITL826, $14.00)

The Potter's Field

The Potter's Field


by 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)

Reversible Destiny, Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo


by 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)

Rough Guide Sicily

Rough Guide Sicily


by Rough Guide

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

A comprehensive guide to Sicily in the British series with an equal focus on culture, history and travel information. (ITL161, $22.00)

The Sand-Reckoner


by 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)

The Sicilian Girl


by 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)

Sicilian Odyssey

Sicilian Odyssey


by 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 . (ITL451, $20.00)

Sicily, Culinary Crossroads


by Giuseppe Coria

  • FOOD
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 207 PAGES

A folklorist, anthropologist and author of 10 cookbooks, Coria traces the food of Sicily though its history in 155 well-documented recipes, tracing the contributions of the Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans and other invaders. (ITA280, $24.95)

Siracusa Map

Siracusa Map


by Litographia Artistica Cartographica

  • MAP

A provincial road map of the Siracusa (Syracuse), Sicily at a scale of 1:150,000. (ITL592, $12.95)

The Terracotta Dog

The Terracotta Dog


by 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)

The Track of Sand

The Track of Sand


by 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)

A Vittorini Omnibus

A Vittorini Omnibus


by Elio Vittorini | Ernest Hemingway

  • LITERATURE
  • 1973
  • PAPER
  • 308 PAGES

These short novels by a modern master include Vittorini's classic tale of a sophisticated man who returns to his native village, In Sicily. (ITL10, $18.95)

Volcanoes, Crucibles of Change

Volcanoes, Crucibles of Change


by 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. (GEO02, $29.95)

The Wings of the Sphinx

The Wings of the Sphinx


by 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)

Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons, Travels in Sicily on a Vespa

Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons, Travels in Sicily on a Vespa


by Matthew Fort

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER
  • 336 PAGES

A food writer who fell in love with Sicily as a youth, Matthew Fort makes his long-planned return three decades later, eating his way across the island in search of authentic food, natural beauty and history. Recipes included. (ITA20, $24.95)

La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind

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)

Sicily, Three Thousand Years of Human History

Sicily, Three Thousand Years of Human History


by Sandra Benjamin

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 498 PAGES

With clarity and authority, Benjamin traces the rich legacy of the Greeks and Romans, Vandals and Goths, Arab traders, Normans, Bourbons and others who have contributed to the multi-faceted history of the kingdom of Sicily. (ITL731, $19.95)

The Italians

The Italians


by Luigi Barzini

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

The definitive portrait of the Italian people, this is a classic, scholarly essay on the Italian character. Though first published in 1964, it's still worth reading for its insight, grace and wit. (ITL05, $16.00)

 

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