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MEDIEVAL TOWNS OF TUSCANY
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50 Hikes in & Around Tuscany, Hiking the Mountains, Forests, Coast & Historic Sites of Wild Tuscany & Beyond
• Jeff Taylor
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
With day and overnight hikes from Liguria to Toscana itself, Umbria, Abruzzo, Le Marche and Emilia-Romagna, with a cluster of suggested mountain hikes in the Apennine's and coastal walks in Maremma.
(ITL827, $16.95) |
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Amazing Disgrace
• James Hamilton-Paterson
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
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 in floridly comic style. The plot, as such, includes Samper's prosecco-soaked musings, the mysterious disappearance of a neighbor, some misadventures with herbal remedies, a German conductor, and one-armed yachtswoman Millie Cleat. With outrageously inedible recipes.
(ITL806, $14.95) |
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The City of Florence, Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings
• R.W.B. Lewis
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1996 •
PAPER
• 350 PAGES
• FAVORITE
A personal and vivid tour of the city and its riches which interweaves Florence's history with personal observation by the fine biographer of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Lewis has written what he calls "a partial biography of Florence."
(ITL47, $21.99) |
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A Day in Tuscany, More Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide
• Dario Castagno
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2007 •
HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES
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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Death of an Englishman
• Magdalen Nabb
MYSTERY •
2001 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
The debut of Nabb's Marshal Guarnaccia, a Sicilian living in Florence. Like Columbo, Guarnaccia is not quite at home -- and deceptively clever. The investigation of the death of A. Langley-Smythe, a seemingly respectable Englishman, unspools on Christmas Eve on the streets of Florence. Scotland Yard dispatches assistance but it is the quietly effective Guarnaccia who solves the case.
(ITL639, $14.00) |
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Etruscan Places, Travels Through Forgotten Italy
• D. H. Lawrence
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
Lawrence's enthralling meditation on ancient lives. Lawrence approaches the enigmatic Etruscans as a poet, passionately and searchingly, and so the reader is swept up in his luminous descriptions of a utopian world where dancing and feasting, art and music were everything. The exhilaration of Lawrence in his Etruscan adventures stands in stark contrast to his intimations of the darkness of Mussolini's Italy - at a time when Europe was beginning its inexorable drift towards tragedy. The last of Lawrence's travel books, Etruscan Places is a vivid account, replete with hauntingly evocative descriptions of the way of life of this once great civilisation.
(ITA211, $16.00) |
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The Food Lover's Guide to Florence, With Culinary Excursions in Tuscany
• Emily Wise Miller
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
Enthralled by the city and its food, Miller scoured Florence, polling neighbors, friends, cooks, and ordinary "golosi" (food lovers) for this delectable compact guide to 125 well-described eateries. This new edition is helpfully organized by neighborhood.
(ITL841, $14.99) |
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Footprint Tuscany
• Rebecca Ford
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
Featuring hundred of color photographs and maps, this informative guide balances an overview of history, culture and nature with helpful travel information. Includes Florence. With popout map.
(ITA91, $21.95) |
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Frommer's Florence & the Best of Tuscany Day by Day
• Darwin Porter
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 228 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 of the city center.
(ITL737, $13.99) |
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Rick Steves' Florence & Tuscany
• Rick Steves
GUIDEBOOK •
2012 •
PAPER
• 388 PAGES
A personal and informative practical guide by the well-regarded travel writer and publisher. Includes suggested day plans and information on where to eat and sleep, as well as plenty of background and historical information.
(ITL794, $19.99) |
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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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Sienese Painting, The Art of a City-Republic
• Timothy Hyman
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
An illustrated introduction to Duccio, Lorenzetti and other important Sienese artists from the 13th to the 15th century. Covering the influence of the Black Death, the Fransciscan movement and the importance of local saints, this book in the "World of Art" seris places the art in its hisorical and cultural context.
(ITL689, $16.95) |
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A Tuscan Childhood
• Kinta Beevor
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2000 •
PAPER
• 271 PAGES
A vibrant, rosy-hued memoir of growing up privileged, bohemian and English between the wars at the family compound near the Tuscan village of Aulla and at Poggio, a villa outside Florence. This book will appeal to teenagers as well as adults.
(ITL388, $13.95) |
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Tuscany For Beginners
• Imogen Edwards-Jones
LITERATURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 323 PAGES
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. She sends up Frances Mayes and her ilk in this comedy of (ill)manners. Edward-Jones appropriately (for the tone of the book) thanks in her acknowledgements Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City. With rather tongue-in-cheek recipes scattered throughout.
(ITL609, $13.95) |
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Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria
• James Ladsun
• Pia Davis
GUIDEBOOK •
2005 •
PAPER
• 394 PAGES
A practical guide to walking and eating your way through the region, this book includes 40 suggested itineraries, mostly day hikes, with maps, details on local attractions, and illustrations.
(ITL97, $20.00) |
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Tuscany, Inside the Light
• Joel Meyerowitz
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 162 PAGES
These exquisitely reproduced, full-page photographs by the art photographer Bill Meyerowitz trace Tuscan landscapes, rough stone architecture and street scenes from a late winter afternoon through spring and summer to the last light of autumn. With 79 color plates and an enclosed 10 x 12 inch color print. Novelist Maggie Barrett provides commentary.
(ITA231, $40.00) |
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