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Eyewitness Guide Florence & Tuscany
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 312 PAGES
This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a neighborhood-by-neighborhood synopsis of the region's attractions.
(ITL46, $25.00)
The Food of Italy
Waverly Root
FOOD 1992 PAPER 750 PAGES
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 wonderfully literate guide.
(ITL75, $19.95)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Italy for the Gourmet Traveler
Fred Plotkin
FOOD
Organized geographically, this encyclopedic guide features eating establishments, cooking schools, markets, shops and other gastronomic treasures in 500 cities and villages, perfect for the food-addled who can't be in the company of the irrepressible master himself.
(ITL268, $24.95)
Italy, A Short History
Harry Hearder
HISTORY
Elegantly written, generous and informative, this compact book takes in the sweep of Italian history from the Roman Republic through the Renaissance, World War II and up to the present.
(ITL56, $26.99)
The Hill Towns of Italy
Carol Field
Richard Kauffman
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
OUT OF PRINT
A delightful illustrated survey of the towns, people and countryside of Tuscany and Umbria by a favorite writer on things Italian. With full-color photographs of towns, including Siena, San Gimignano, Perugia, Assisi and Orvieto.
(ITL96, $19.95)
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)
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)
Italian Villas and Their Gardens
Edith Wharton
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A facsimile edition of Wharton's witty, astute essays on the history and pleasures of Italy's famous villas. With photographs and the original, full-page illustrations by Maxfield Parrish.
(ITL91, $35.00)
A Small Place In Italy
Eric Newby
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Naturally, the Newbys return to Italy. In this warm tale of 25 splendid years at their farm in northwest Tuscany, their house I Castagni plays as much a role (it was a ruin) as the uproarious Newby, the unflappable Wanda and their many eccentric neighbors.
(ITL111, $14.99)
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)
Galileo's Daughter, A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Dava Sobel
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The life of Sister Maria Celeste, Galileo Galilei's illegitimate daughter, as told through letters to her father.
(ITL176, $16.00)
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)
The Hills of Tuscany, A New Life in an Old Land
Ferenc Mate
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A memoir of the author and his wife, a painter, living among farmers in rural Tuscany. Mate's love of Italy, and especially of its food, comes through loud and clear.
(ITL155, $15.00)
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)
Travelers' Tales Tuscany
Tara Austen Weaver
James O'Reilly
ANTHOLOGY
An anthology of great excerpts from travel essays about Tuscany, with pieces from Saul Bellow and Ferenc Mate, among others.
(ITL315, $16.95)
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)
Birds of Britain & Europe
Hermann Heinzel
Richard Fitter
John Parslow
FIELD GUIDE
OUT OF PRINT
This masterfully organized Collins Pocket Guide, featuring 3,000 color illustrations covers the birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
(EUR49, $27.50)
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