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Eyewitness Guide Umbria
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2004 PAPER 192 PAGES
A marvelously illustrated, compact guide to the culture, history and attractions of Umbria, organized geographically and especially helpful for its innovative site plans, building diagrams and local maps. With select, annotated listings of where to eat and sleep and what to buy.
(ITL512, $20.00)
Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves, An American Naturalist in Italy
Gary Paul Nabhan
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 1994 PAPER 256 PAGES
A poet and naturalist, Nabhan makes his way by foot along the ancient Franciscan Way from Florence to Assisi, talking to farmers and townsfolk en route. This most unusual travelogue combines natural history, spirituality -- and a lively appreciation of local food and food traditions. It's the local scale of Tuscany and Umbria and the accommodation of wild and domestic that intrigues Nabhan. This edition, the only one available, is a print-on-demand paperback.
(ITL99, $16.00)
Reluctant Saint, The Life of Francis of Assisi
Donald Spoto
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2003 PAPER 272 PAGES
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)
Umbria Regional Map
Touring Club Italiano
MAP
A colorful, detailed map of Umbria and surrounding areas, at a scale of 1:200,000. The most detailed map of the area available, imported from Italy
(ITL119, $12.95)
Blue Guide the Marche
Ellen Grady
GUIDEBOOK
Covering Rimini and Urbino, the cuisine of the region, its history and culture, art and architecture in detail.
(ITL691, $26.95)
Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide
Laura Morelli
GUIDEBOOK
The second edition of Morelli's expert survey of handcrafted Italian shops and products from Murano glass to ceramics, jewelry and leather.
(ITL473, $24.95)
Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
Rick Steves
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
This compact phrase book, 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)
Rough Guide Tuscany and Umbria
Jonathan Buckley
Tim Jepson
GUIDEBOOK
This comprehensive travel guide includes 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, $19.99)
Umbria: Discover the Heart of Italy with Its Cities, Riches of History, Art and Traditions
Touring Club Italiano
GUIDEBOOK
A practical, comprehensive guide with excellent maps published by the Touring Club Italiano.
(ITL511, $16.95)
A Traveller's History of Italy
Valerio Lintner
HISTORY
A brief history of Italy through the 1990s -- wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through the centuries.
(ITL86, $14.95)
La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
Beppe Severgnini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Hugely popular in Italy, this guide to the Italian character addresses the apparently never-ending passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. Severgnini opens the book with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa Airport, then moves 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)
Etruscan Art
Nigel Spivey
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A thoroughly-illustrated, wide-ranging and literate introduction to Etruscan art. A volume in the acclaimed "World of Art" series.
(ITL68, $18.95)
A Valley in Italy, The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbria
Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
This short memoir chronicles a year in the small Umbrian village of San Orsola--especially the delights and frustrations of renovating a decayed villa. Taking in food, wine, local customs and landscapes, the book is an excellent introduction to the region
(ITL98, $13.00)
Italian Days
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
FAVORITE
Grizzuti Harrison writes with warmth and depth of her journey from Milan south to Calabria in this sprightly account of Italy and the Italians.
(ITL02, $15.00)
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)
Salvation, Scenes from the Life of Saint Francis
Valerie Martin
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A new and splendid biography of Saint Francis of Assisi. It's a splendid literary accompaniment to Giotto's frescoes in the basilica of San Francesco, Assisi.
(ITL282, $13.00)
The Lady in the Palazzo, At Home in Umbria
Marlena de Blasi
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
In this sequel to A Thousand Days in Venice, de Blasi and her husband move to Orvieto, where they set up house in an apartment in the Palazzo Baschieri. Her love for the sensual pleasures of Italy, especially the food, is infectious.
(ITL757, $14.95)
After Hannibal
Barry Unsworth
LITERATURE
Unsworth's vivid novel takes in the history, landscape, pleasures and the other Americans and Europeans, like himself, who live in Umbria.
(ITL100, $17.95)
Italian Folktales
Italo Calvino
LITERATURE
A treasured collection of 200 lively folk tales presented by none other than the great Italo Calvino, a modern master with great affection for the folkloric traditions of his childhood.
(ITL314, $25.00)
Italy in Mind
Alice Powers
LITERATURE
A terrific collection of some of the best literary writing on Italy, including pieces by Melville, Lawrence, Henry James, Mary McCarthy and many others.
(ITL39, $14.95)
Ratking
Michael Dibdin
MYSTERY
Venetian crime investigator Aurelio Zen goes after the kidnappers of a Perugian industrialist in this enjoyable thriller, winner of the Gold Dagger Award (and first book in the series).
(ITL622, $13.95)
The Little Flowers of St. Francis
W. Heywood
Ugolino
Madeleine L'Engle
LITERATURE
Classic tales attributed to St. Francis, divided into 50 vignettes, including the story of the wolf of Gubbio, set along the Franciscan Way.
(ITL132, $13.00)
Two Lives, Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria
William Trevor
LITERATURE
The second of these two Booker Prize-nominated novellas is the beautifully rendered story of an ex-prostitute who settles in Umbria to write romance novels, but whose life is disturbed by local political events.
(ITL122, $15.00)
Waking Raphael
Leslie Forbes
LITERATURE
This literary thriller, set in painter Raphael's hometown of Urbino, follows the fate of an art historian mixed up in local affairs.
(ITL536, $14.00)
Birds of Europe
Killian Mullarney
Lars Svensson
Dan Zetterstrom
Peter J. Grant
FIELD GUIDE
FAVORITE
A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent.
(FG47, $29.95)
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