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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/U57092. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 4 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXITL661) |
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Eyewitness Guide Venice & the Veneto
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2012 •
PAPER
• 312 PAGES
• COMING IN FEBRUARY
Another in the long line of superb Eyewitness Guides, this one features color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a neighborhood-by-neighborhood synopsis of the region's attractions. It includes numerous cutaways and floor plans of local buildings as well. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(ITL200, $20.00) |
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The World of Venice
• Jan Morris
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 315 PAGES
• FAVORITE
Morris displays her talent for research, telling anecdote and well-wrought prose in this spirited portrait of a beloved city, its history and inhabitants. If you are going to read one book on Venice, we recommend this favorite. Originally published in 1974 and revised for this edition, it's a tour de force.
(ITL12, $18.95) |
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Art and Life in Renaissance Venice
• Patricia Brown
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
With a strong focus on art, the author evokes the guilds, nobility and spirit of the Renaissance in her discussion of painting, sculpture and architecture. With 120 full-color illustrations. A volume in the Prentice Hall Perspectives series. Also in this same series is "Renaissance Florence." Second edition.
(ITL57, $40.80) |
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Veneto Friuli Venezia Giulia Map
• Touring Club Italiano
2008 •
MAP
A detailed, shaded relief map of the Veneto at a scale of 1:200,000. Accurate, colorful, and imported from Italy. Eigth edition. Two Sides. 37x54 inches.
(ITL22, $12.95) |
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Also Recommended
Fodor's Venice's 25 Best
• Citypack
• GUIDEBOOK
• COMING IN MARCH
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This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information.
(ITL106, $12.99)
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Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Rick Steves
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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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, $8.95)
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A History of Venice
• John Julius Norwich
• HISTORY
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The great historian Norwich marshals myriad personalities, battles, sieges, and facts into a vivid portrait of the Venetian Republic spanning the 1,000 years up to its 1797 defeat at the hands of Napoleon.
(ITL177, $26.00)
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The City of Falling Angels
• John Berendt
• HISTORY
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Berendt's masterful mix of damp aspirations, intrigue and eccentric personalities conveys a certain essence of what it's like to live in modern Venice.
(ITL644, $16.00)
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Venice Observed
• Mary McCarthy
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Originally published over 30 years ago, this collection of eight essays is a literate, evocative celebration of the city, its character, and its history.
(ITL27, $13.95)
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Venice, The Grand Canal
• Daniele Resini
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This ingenious book unfolds accordion-style to reveal a 42-foot panorama of the palaces, churches and museums fronting Venice's glorious Grand Canal. The photographer, Daniele Resini, took the photographs over a period of three years to create one perfectly continuous portrait of this architectural wonder.
(ITL663, $50.00)
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A Traveller in Italy
• H.V. Morton
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The much-beloved, enduring account of Morton's ramblings in the temples, tombs and villas of Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia and the Veneto.
(ITL417, $25.00)
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Dead Lagoon, An Aurelio Zen Mystery
• Michael Dibdin
• MYSTERY
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Dibdin -- a master of ambiguous settings, shady dealings and fast-paced prose -- returns to Venice in this sixth book in the thoroughly enjoyable Aurelio Zen series.
(ITL577, $14.95)
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Death at La Fenice
• Donna Leon
• MYSTERY
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The first of the tremendously good Guido Brunetti mysteries, all set in the author's beloved Venice, in which a famous conductor is found dead at the celebrated theater of the title.
(ITL555, $13.99)
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Italy in Mind
• Alice Powers
• LITERATURE
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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, $17.95)
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Medusa, An Aurelio Zen Mystery
• Michael Dibdin
• MYSTERY
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In this ninth book in the thoroughly enjoyable Aurelio Zen series, our worldly detective investigates a mysterious corpse in a long-abandoned military tunnel in the Dolomites.
(ITL576, $13.95)
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