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Insight Guide Tuscany
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 304 PAGES
An illustrated guide in this popular series, noteworthy for its maps and illuminating short essays on Tuscan food, history and culture. This re-launched regional guide, now with restaurant and hotel recommendations, is in a smaller, handier size and comes with a separate touring map.
(ITL156, $18.95)
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)
A Small Place In Italy
Eric Newby
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2008 PAPER 240 PAGES
An account of 25 memorable years spent in northern Tuscany, where the farmhouse "I Castagni" is as much of a character as the uproarious Newby, his wife Wanda and their eccentric neighbors. Marvelous.
(ITL111, $14.99)
Travelers' Tales Tuscany
Tara Austen Weaver James O'Reilly
ANTHOLOGY 2002 PAPER 222 PAGES
Well-chosen true stories from quality contemporary authors is what this anthology of travel writing and essays about Tuscany, including excerpts from works by Saul Bellow, Matthew Spender, Ferenc Mate, Frances Mayes and Barbara Grizzuti Harrison among others.
(ITL315, $16.95)
Italy Map
Borch Maps
2006 MAP
A convenient laminated map of Italy at a scale of 1:800,000 with excellent topographic detail, an index, and large individual maps of Sicily and Sardinia.
(ITL19, $11.95)
Cinque Terre Map
Litographia Artistica Cartographica
A detailed shaded relief walking and road map of the Cinque Terre at a scale of 1:40,000.
(ITL159, $10.95)
Siena Map
Litographia Artistica Cartographica
A very detailed map of Siena, scale 1:7000.
(ITL299, $10.95)
Tuscany Map
Touring Club Italiano
The most detailed map of Tuscany available, at a scale of 1:200,000. Imported from Italy.
(ITL102, $12.95)
Blue Guide Tuscany
Alta MacAdam
GUIDEBOOK
A guide to the cultural riches of Tuscany with a focus on history, art and architecture. Serious-minded travelers will not want to be without it.
(ITL43, $24.95)
Cadogan Italian Riviera & Piemonte
Michael Pauls
Dana Facaros
GUIDEBOOK
An authoritative guide to Liguria, including Cinque Terre, Portofino, Genoa and lesser-known destinations. Strong on practical information, it's also a good overview of the history, culture and cuisine of the region.
(ITL407, $19.95)
Etruscan
Larissa Bonfante
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A brief guide to decoding Etruscan inscriptions, using representative vases, coins and other objects. Useful for serious scholars of Etruscan art and archeology.
(ITL242, $13.95)
Eyewitness Guide Florence & Tuscany
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
Superbly illustrated, this compact guide shows the neighborhoods, museums, shops and sites of Florence and surroundings in full color.
(ITL46, $23.00)
Lonely Planet Tuscany & Umbria
Damien Simonis
GUIDEBOOK
A practical guide to Tuscany.
(ITL233, $19.99)
Rough Guide Tuscany and Umbria
Jonathan Buckley
Tim Jepson
GUIDEBOOK
A no-nonsense, comprehensive travel guide with 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)
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, A Short History
Harry Hearder
HISTORY
Elegantly written, generous and enormously 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, $24.99)
The Etruscans
Graeme Barker
Tom Rasmussen
HISTORY
A study of the Etruscans. Using the most recent archaeological evidence, the authors detail their culture, economics and inscriptions
(ITL169, $41.95)
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)
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 Traveller in Italy
H.V. Morton
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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)
A Tuscan Childhood
Kinta Beevor
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A vibrant, rosy-hued memoir of growing up privileged, bohemian and English in Tuscany during the interwar period.
(ITL388, $13.95)
Bella Tuscany, The Sweet Life in Italy
Frances Mayes
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
In this sequel to "Under the Tuscan Sun," best-selling author Frances Mayes goes out in search of Italian Life in the small town of Cortona.
(ITL224, $15.00)
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)
In Tuscany
Bob Krist
Frances Mayes
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An edition of Maye's warm, anecdotal account of life on her now-restored Tuscan estate, much enhanced by Bob Krist's color photographs.
(ITL348, $35.00)
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia
Caroline Moorehead
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
In this biography of a privileged Anglo-Italian, Moorehead captures the World War II-era expatriate community in Tuscany, life at D'Orcia, and the accomplishments, both literary and social of the remarkable Marchesa.
(ITL441, $19.95)
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)
Love and War in the Apennines
Eric Newby
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Newby's flight from the Germans in occupied Italy during World War II. The author had lived in Italy through childhood during the interwar period, and since has made his home there.
(ITL171, $14.99)
Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves, An American Naturalist in Italy
Gary Paul Nabhan
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The author, a poet and naturalist, heads along the Franciscan Way from Florence to Assisi. This most unusual travelogue combines natural history, spirituality and a lively appreciation of local food and food traditions. A print-on-demand paperback.
(ITL99, $16.00)
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)
Innocence
Penelope Fitzgerald
LITERATURE
A comic novel set in mid-twentieth century Italy, by the inimitable Penelope Fitzgerald, author of "The Blue Flower".
(ITL317, $12.00)
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)
Portofino, A Novel
Frank Schaeffer
LITERATURE
Set in the 1960s, this coming-of-age tale follows a young boy's encounters with the sights and people of the seaside town of Portofino, while he avoids his missionary parents' constant bickering and their attempts to convert the locals.
(ITL164, $15.00)
Romola
George Eliot
LITERATURE
George Eliot is best-known for novels of English country life, but in this book she recreates Renaissance Florence.
(ITL318, $14.00)
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Charles H. Sisson
LITERATURE
In this classic, Dante molds a universe in which reason and faith shape social order.
(ITL310, $17.95)
Valperga
Mary Shelley
Tilottama Rajan
LITERATURE
This precursor to Frankenstein is a dark, historical romance set in 14th-century Tuscany. Also titled "The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca."
(ITL216, $18.95)
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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