The Hill Towns of Italy  •  Carol Field  •  Richard Kauffman CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1997 •  PAPER  • 116 PAGES • COMING IN A delightful illustrated survey of the towns, people and countryside of Tuscany and Umbria by a favorite writer on things Italian. The book devotes a chapter each to 13 towns in the region including Sienna, San Gimignano, Cortona, Perugia, Assisi and Orvieto. With an overview of Tuscany and Umbria, and dozens of full-color photographs. (ITL96, $19.95)
Birds of Britain & Europe  •  Hermann Heinzel  •  Richard Fitter  •  John Parslow FIELD GUIDE •  1998 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES • COMING IN This masterfully organized Collins Pocket Guide, featuring 3,000 color illustrations covers the birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Maps, text and illustrations for each species are organized together on facing pages for quick reference in the field. Heinzel contributed all the handsome watercolor illustrations. (EUR49, $27.50)