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Insight Guide Southern Italy
Roger Williams
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 381 PAGES
A colorful guide to the culture, history and attractions of Italy south of Rome, featuring hundreds of photographs and excellent local and regional maps.
(ITL458, $23.95)
The Ancient Mediterranean
Michael Grant
CULTURAL PORTRAIT 1990 PAPER 374 PAGES
Grant, a well known classical scholar, draws on archaeology, geography, art, and economics to paint a vivid picture of ancient cultures, from prehistory through the Roman Imperium, and their influence on western civilization. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, and 19 maps of the region.
(MED10, $18.00)
Italian Days
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 1998 PAPER 479 PAGES
FAVORITE
A literary celebration, portrait and guide to Italy and the Italians. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison writes with warmth and depth of her journey from Milan south to Calabria in this sprightly account. It's one of our favorite books about place.
(ITL02, $15.00)
Puglia Map
Touring Club Italiano
MAP
The locals' map of Puglia, at a scale of 1:200,000.
(ITL425, $12.95)
Campania Region Map
Touring Club Italiano
A colorful map of Campania, including Naples and the Amalfi Coast.
(ITL116, $12.95)
Blue Guide Southern Italy
Paul Blanchard
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive guide to Southern Italy and especially its archaeology, history and culture. With maps and site plans. Blanchard, a popular tour guide, is also the author of the Blue Guide to Northern Italy.
(ITL257, $34.95)
National Geographic Traveler Naples And Southern Italy
Tim Jepson
GUIDEBOOK
A guidebook to the region, published by National Geographic in their attractive, visual style. The guide features many photographs, maps and good information on history, nature, culture and travel.
(ITL802, $21.95)
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)
A Taste of Southern Italy, Delicious Recipes and a Dash of Culture
Marlena de Blasi
FOOD
More than just a cookbook, this evocative text brings the spirit and landscape of Southern Italy to life. Full of stories, impressions, useful information and rustic recipes.
(ITL785, $25.95)
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)
Between Salt Water and Holy Water, A History of Southern Italy
Tommaso Astarita
HISTORY
Astarita captures the fanfare, rivalry and changing fortunes of Sicily from antiquity through Norman, Spanish and Bourbon rule to unification and the 20th century.
(ITL597, $15.95)
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 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)
Women of the Shadows, Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy
Ann Cornelisen
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A striking, personal portrait of five women struggling in the post-war years in the south of Italy. Cornelisen's black-and-white photos and equally haunting text reveal a far from idyllic life in a less-than-picturesque Italy.
(ITL459, $15.00)
Christ Stopped at Eboli, The Story of a Year
Carlo Levi
Frances Frenaye
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An affecting memoir of southern Italy, originally published in 1947, it stems from the author's forced relocation to the region as punishment for anti-fascist political activity.
(ITL09, $14.00)
Italian Journey, 1786-1788
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
W.H. Auden
Elizabeth Meyer
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The journals and letters from Goethe's 'grand tour' of southern Italy as translated by W.H. Auden. In addition to much musing on philosophy and art, it includes some wonderful writing on the Italian landscape.
(ITL144, $17.00)
On the Shores of the Mediterranean
Eric Newby
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A sparkling observer and famously entertaining writer, Newby tackles the Mediterranean in this merry travelogue. He finds himself in North Africa, the Adriatic, Venice, Naples, the Greek Islands, Turkey, Cairo and Jerusalem.
(MED25, $14.95)
Seasons in Basilicata, A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village
David Yeadon
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
This warm-spirited account of a year in the village of Aliano in Italy's rural south. Yeadon finds an altogether different place than that encountered by Carols Levi (Christ Stopped in Eboli) in 1935.
(ITL585, $14.95)
Stolen Figs, And Other Adventures in Calabria
Mark Rotella
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A warmly told, refreshingly candid account of travels and adventures in the south of Italy from the grandson of a Calabrian.
(ITL465, $15.00)
Torregreca: Life, Death and Miracles
Ann Cornelisen
Frances Mayes
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An absorbing and candid memoir of life in an impoverished region south of Naples circa 1959. First published in 1969, the book is a classic portrait of the mountainous villages of Basilicata.
(ITL460, $16.00)
Casa Rossa
Francesca Marciano
LITERATURE
A vivid novel following the lives of a mother, daughter, and granddaughter from Puglia over the course of the 20th century, opening as the narrator prepares to sell Casa Rossa, the family farm.
(ITL534, $14.95)
Italy in Mind
Alice Powers
LITERATURE
A terrific collection of some of the best literary writing on Italy, including Melville, Lawrence, Henry James, Mary McCarthy and many others. Great reading.
(ITL39, $14.95)
The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story
Horace Walpole
LITERATURE
First published in 1764, Walpole's classic Gothic novel takes place in and around the 15th-century castle on the Adriatic.
(ITL631, $8.95)
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