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	Insight Guide Tuscany  •   Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES An illustrated guide in this popular series, noteworthy for its maps and illuminating short essays on Tuscan food, history and culture. This re-launched regional guide, now with restaurant and hotel recommendations, is in a smaller, handier size and comes with a separate touring map. (ITL156, $18.95)
	Tuscan Country: A Photographer's Journey  •  Wes Walker CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2007 •  HARD COVER  • 160 PAGES Wes Walker captures the allure of the hill towns, vineyards, fields and villages in 100 luminous color photographs. Literary excerpts from the works of both Italian writers and literary visitors accompany the photographs, including Italo Calvino, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Frances Mayes. (ITL848, $29.95)
	The Tuscan Year: Tuscan Life and Food in an Italian Valley  •  Elizabeth Romer FOOD •  1996 •  PAPER  • 182 PAGES • FAVORITE An intimate portrait of life on a Tuscan farm, as seen primarily through the robust food. Romer captures the goings-on in the countryside, and especially in the Cerotti kitchen, where traditional Tuscan rural food is prepared with loving care. Every chapter includes concisely described recipes. The index makes it easy to look up recipes if you're inspired to use this wonderful account as a cookbook. (ITL131, $14.00)
	Travelers' Tales Tuscany  •  Tara Austen Weaver  •  James O'Reilly ANTHOLOGY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 222 PAGES Well-chosen true stories from quality contemporary authors is what this anthology of travel writing and essays about Tuscany, including excerpts from works by Saul Bellow, Matthew Spender, Ferenc Mate, Frances Mayes and Barbara Grizzuti Harrison among others. (ITL315, $16.95)
	Tuscany Map  •   Touring Club Italiano MAP A fine and detailed regional map of Tuscany at a scale of 1:200,000. The most detailed map of the region available, imported from Italy. (ITL102, $12.95)

	50 Hikes in & Around Tuscany, Hiking the Mountains, Forests, Coast & Historic Sites of Wild Tuscany & Beyond  •  Jeff Taylor   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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)
	Fodor's Florence's 25 Best  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A shirt-pocket guide and map. (ITL140, $11.95)
	Footprint Siena & the Heart of Tuscany  •  Rebecca Ford   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A detailed, practical guide to Siena and surroundings, part of the excellent British series. With background on the history, art, architecture and attractions of Siena, the book also features details on day trips to San Gimignano, Volterra and Montalcino. (ITL688, $12.95)
	Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary  •  Rick Steves   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary; also includes Steves' insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world. (ITL424, $7.95)
	Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria  •  James Ladsun  •  Pia Davis   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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)
	The Food of Italy  •  Waverly Root   • FOOD  •  Evocative of Italy and its diverse cuisine, this classic book, organized geographically, offers a cook's tour of the country. It's a well-informed and wonderful culinary guide. (ITL75, $19.95)
	Tuscany and its Wines  •  Hugh Johnson   • FOOD  •  A marvelously well-informed and illustrated guide to Tuscany as seen though its wine and wine producers. (ITL653, $19.95)
	La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind  •  Beppe Severgnini   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • NEW  •  Hugely popular in Italy, this guide to the Italian character addresses the apparently neverending passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. Severgnini opens the book with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa, moving on to Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia. (ITL718, $12.95)
	The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany  •  James Bentley  •  Hugh Palmer   • HISTORY  •  This handsome oversize picture book is a portrait of the Tuscan landscape and people. It contains maps, a travel guide and many color photographs. (ITL261, $40.00)
	Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Palazzo Pubblico, Siena  •  Randolph Starn   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Lorenzetti painted the famed fresco cycle "Allegory of Good and Bad Government" in Siena's town hall. This beautifully illustrated short book looks specifically at that work, done between 1338-40. (ITL434, $25.00)
	The Art of the Renaissance  •  Peter Murray   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A classic, illustrated survey of the world of the Renaissance and its art. With chapters on Florence and its artists, the Netherlands, early illustrated books, and many individual artists. (ITL14, $18.95)
	A Day in Tuscany, More Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide  •  Dario Castagno   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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)
	D.H. Lawrence and Italy  •  D.H. Lawrence  •  Tim Parks   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This omnibus Penguin Classics edition includes three travel tales, each very different in tone and all wonderful: "Sea and Sardinia" is a nostalgic look at traditional ways of life; "Twilight in Italy" an evocation of Lawrence's memorable stay on Lake Garda; and "Etruscan Places" his musings on ancient sites, including the painted tombs of Tarquinia. (ITL62, $18.00)
	On The Road With Francis of Assisi  •  Linda Bird Francke   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Assisi wandered for 20 years, affording Newsweek editor Francke and her patient husband plenty to see and do in the piazzas, sanctuaries and chapels of Assisi, Siena, Bologna, Venice, Gubbio, Rome and other choice spots. (ITL647, $15.95)
	Reluctant Saint, The Life of Francis of Assisi  •  Donald Spoto   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Spoto draws on fascinating new research to explore the travels, spirit and work of the beloved saint. This engaging portrait provides an excellent overview of the life of St. Francis. (ITL849, $14.00)
	Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves, An American Naturalist in Italy  •  Gary Paul Nabhan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The author, a poet and naturalist, heads along the Franciscan Way from Florence to Assisi. This most unusual travelogue combines natural history, spirituality and a lively appreciation of local food and food traditions. A print-on-demand paperback. (ITL99, $16.00)
	Too Much Tuscan Sun, Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide  •  Roberto Rodi  •  Dario Castagno   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Castagno's memoirs of his experiences as a tour guide in Tuscany. His ease with and taste for the Chianti region combine to evoke intoxicating images of the much loved Tuscany. (ITL547, $14.95)
	Under the Tuscan Sun  •  Frances Mayes   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  In this best-selling memoir of buying, renovating and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Mayes reveals the sensual pleasures found in rural Italy. (ITL85, $15.00)
	War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944  •  Iris Origo  •  Denis Mack Smith   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A diary of day-to-day heroism and fortitude. The author and her family take children, deserters, escaped prisoners, and Jews fleeing the advancing Germans into their home in Abruzzo. (ITL219, $14.95)
	Summer's Lease  •  John Mortimer   • MYSTERY  •  The protagonist's idyll is upset when the water supply fails and a neighbor dies. A well-paced mystery set in the Tuscan countryside, by the author of Rumpole of the Bailey. (ITL580, $15.00)
	The Divine Comedy  •  Dante Alighieri  •  Charles H. Sisson   • LITERATURE  •  In this classic, Dante molds a universe in which reason and faith shape social order. (ITL310, $17.95)

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