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Insight Guide Southern Italy  •  Roger Williams   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A colorful guide to the culture, history and attractions of Italy south of Rome, featuring hundreds of photographs and excellent local and regional maps. Includes Sicily. (ITL458, $23.95)
 
 
Italian Hours  •  Henry James   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A classic series of travel essays written between 1872 and 1909 on the art, religion and people of Italy. James is an observant guide to Rome, Naples, Florence and other great destinations in the 19th century. (ITL07, $16.00)
 
 
Italian Journey, 1786-1788  •  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  •  W.H. Auden  •  Elizabeth Meyer   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  "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, $17.00)
 
 
The Italians  •  Luigi Barzini   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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)
 
 
Knopf Guide Naples and Pompeii  •   Knopf Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A slender, attractive guide to the whole Amalfi Coast region with background, excellent maps and some practical information. (ITL63, $25.95)
 
 
Modern Naples, A Documentary History, 1799-1999  •  John Santore   • HISTORY  •  A source book and history of Naples from its foundations to Bourbon Capital and unification. (ITL351, $25.00)
 
 
On the Shores of the Mediterranean  •  Eric Newby   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A sparkling observer and famously entertaining, Newby tackles the Mediterranean in this merry classic asccount of travels to North Africa, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cairo and Jerusalem. (MED25, $24.95)
 
 
 




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