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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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