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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 4 items are available
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Eyewitness Guide Naples & Amalfi Coast
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the region's attractions. Covering Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Amalfi coast, it focuses on culture, history and art. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(ITL107, $25.00) |
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La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
• Beppe Severgnini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2007 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
• BEST SELLER
Hugely popular in Italy, this witty guide to the Italian character addresses the apparently never-ending Italian passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. An Italian journalist, Severgnini opens with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa Airport, taking the unwary reader firmly by the hand on a journey to Milan,Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia. He hilariously points out Italian rituals and quirks from the highway to hotels, bedrooms, restaurants, the office and beach.
(ITL718, $14.00) |
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The Ancient Shore
• Shirley Hazzard
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2009 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
Written over several decades, Hazzard's lovely, lyrical collection of essays captures the history, beauty, complexities and contradictions of Naples. The book includes a celebrated New Yorker essay by her late husband Francis Steegmuller.
(ITL967, $13.00) |
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Sorrento Peninsula & Amalfi Coast Map
• Litographia Artistica Cartographica
MAP
A detailed road map of the Sorrento Peninsula and Amalfi Coast, including Pompeii, Nocera and Salerno, with an inset map of Capri at a scale of 1:35,000, showing hiking trails, tracks, historic buildings and attractions. With travel information on the reverse. Two Sides. 29x43 inches.
(ITL432, $13.99) |
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Also Recommended
Ischia/Capri Map
• Instituto Geografico De Agostini
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A map of both Capri and Ischia at a scale of 1:28,000.
(ITL500, $6.95)
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Frommer's Amalfi Coast with Naples, Capri & Pompeii
• Bruce Murphy
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout.
(ITA81, $21.99)
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Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook
• Lonely Planet
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A handy palm-size phrasebook for the traveler.
(ITL531, $8.99)
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Biba's Italy
• Biba Caggiano
• FOOD
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Caggiano focuses on regional, seasonal food in this omnibus cookbook (featuring 100 recipes), menu planner and travel guide to Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan and Venice. Nicely produced, this handsome sepia-toned book includes recommended restaurants, cafes and markets in each city.
(ITL777, $29.95)
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Between Salt Water and Holy Water, A History of Southern Italy
• Tommaso Astarita
• HISTORY
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Astarita captures the fanfare, rivalry and changing fortunes of Sicily from antiquity through Norman, Spanish and Bourbon rule to unification and the 20th century.
(ITL597, $22.95)
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In the Shadow of Vesuvius
• Jordan Lancaster
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A sparkling portrait of Naples from its volcanic origins to its lively present. Lancaster's cultural history explores the city's tumultuous past, its spirited inhabitants and the mythical allure that's drawn so many travelers to its siren song.
(ITL969, $16.95)
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Italy, A Short History
• Harry Hearder
• HISTORY
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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, $29.00)
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Pompeii, Public and Private Life
• Paul Zanker
• Deborah Schneider
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A comprehensive guide to the architecture, people and culture of Pompeii, focusing on both grand public spaces and private villas. With 21 color illustrations and 55 halftones, including site plans, models, mosaics and sculpture.
(ITL114, $32.50)
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Italian Days
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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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)
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Naples '44, A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
• Norman Lewis
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A classic book by one of the 20th century's great travel writers. Naples '44 is funny and moving, and ultimately a meditation on war and the indomitable character of the Italian people.
(ITL603, $14.95)
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Cosi Fan Tutti
• Michael Dibdin
• MYSTERY
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Romantic entanglements complicate the investigation of a murder in Naples in this installment of the enjoyable series.
(ITL623, $13.95)
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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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Pompeii, A Novel
• Robert Harris
• LITERATURE
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In this fast-paced historical novel set in Pompeii, a young engineer sets out to repair the Roman aqueducts and discovers the imminent eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Full of suspense and period detail.
(ITL560, $7.99)
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Sailing to Capri
• Elizabeth Adler
• MYSTERY
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Bestselling author Adler weaves a suspenseful tale of a cruise, where nothing is what it seems, no one is telling the truth, and murder happens.
(ITL965, $14.99)
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The House in Amalfi
• Elizabeth Adler
• MYSTERY
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Master of suspense and romance, Adler deftly intertwines lush descriptions of place with fast-paced intrigue in her 16th novel, set in Amalfi.
(ITL966, $6.99)
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The Volcano Lover, A Romance
• Susan Sontag
• LITERATURE
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A steamy and evocative historical novel by social critic Sontag, set in 18th-century Naples. The sweeping story focuses on the British Ambassador to the King in Naples, his passionate and notorious love, and her infatuation with Lord Nelson.
(ITL143, $16.00)
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Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth
• Maurice Krafft
• NATURAL HISTORY
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
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By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992), this pocket guide features hundreds of full-color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science.
(GEO06, $15.95)
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Birds of Europe
• Lars Svensson
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps.
(FG47, $29.95)
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