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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/U57914. 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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Blue Guide Northern Italy, from the Alps to the Adriatic
• Paul Blanchard
GUIDEBOOK •
2005 •
PAPER
• 735 PAGES
This Blue Guide by a popular tour leader provides a thorough overview of the history, art and architecture of northern Italy from Trieste across to the Valle d'Aosta, Venice, Verona, Milan, Genoa and Bologna. With 36 maps and site plans. 12th edition.
(ITL48, $32.95) |
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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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Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook
• Lonely Planet
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •
2012 •
PAPER
• 260 PAGES
A handy, palm-size guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(ITL531, $8.99) |
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Northern Italy Map
• Touring Club Italiano
MAP
This beautifully shaded road map of Northern Italy (1:400,000) shows the region including Trieste, Venice, Bologna Milan and Turin. Printed and tear- and water-resistant paper. One Side. 37x59 inches.
(ITL38, $14.95) |
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Also Recommended
Venice Map
• Borch Maps
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A colorful, detailed city map of Venice, perfect for finding your way around the famously labyrinthine streets and canals.
(ITL26, $8.95)
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Eyewitness Guide Venice & the Veneto
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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Featuring color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a synopsis of the region's attractions. With a pullout map.
(ITL200, $20.00)
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Fodor's Venice's 25 Best
• Citypack
• GUIDEBOOK
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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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Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide
• Laura Morelli
• GUIDEBOOK
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The second edition of Morelli's expert survey of handcrafted Italian shops and products from Murano glass to ceramics, jewelry and leather.
(ITL473, $24.95)
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The Cyclist's Training Bible
• Joe Friel
• GUIDEBOOK
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Technical, yet comprehensive, this terrific guide, designed for the serious cyclist, has all the tools to help stay healthy and get in shape.
(BCY10, $24.95)
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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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A Traveller's History of Italy
• Valerio Lintner
• HISTORY
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A brief history of Italy through the 1990s -- wide-ranging, accessible and necessarily condensed. With a useful chronology and historical gazetteer, this book marches confidently through the centuries.
(ITL86, $14.95)
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Cycling's Golden Age
• Owen Mulholland
• HISTORY
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Over 400 postwar-era photographs of riders, bikes, trophies, jerseys and more from the world's largest collection of cycling memorabilia.
(BCY21, $49.95)
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Italianissimo
• Louise Fili
• Lise Apatoff
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Divertingly illustrated, this A-to-Z guide profiles 50 very Italian customs and concepts from the notion of beauty (bellisimo) to the Italian disregard for lines (Fare La Coda).
(ITL983, $19.95)
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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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The Noblest Invention, An Illustrated History of the Bicycle
• Bicycling Magazine
• Lance Armstrong
• SPORT
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Celebrating the bicycle from the models from childhood to favorites high-tech mountain machines, beautifully illustrated in color photos.
(BCY15, $27.95)
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La Bella Lingua
• Dianne Hales
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• NEW
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Inebriated with the sounds of Italian, lovesick for its phrases and enamored of its earthy idioms, Hales, "a sensible woman of sturdy Polish stock," dives into the Italian of the piazza, literature, movies and streets in this charming memoir.
(ITA26, $15.00)
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The World of Venice
• Jan Morris
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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Morris displays her talent for research, anecdote and well-wrought prose in this spirited history of a beloved city.
(ITL12, $18.95)
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Venice Is a Fish
• Tiziano Scarpa
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The hugely popular Venetian novelist, poet and playwright makes his English-language debut with these marvelously digressive essays on the many moods and pleasures of La Serenissima.
(ITL964, $12.00)
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Back to Bologna
• Michael Dibdin
• MYSTERY
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Dibdin shows a lighter touch in this installment in the marvelous Aurelio Zen mysteries.
(ITL746, $13.95)
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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, $14.99)
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Italy, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• Lawrence Venuti
• ANTHOLOGY
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Not just a literary companion, this anthology is also a who's who of contemporary Italian writers that captures the spirit, history and allure of the country.
(ITL466, $14.95)
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The Betrothed
• Alessandro Manzoni
• LITERATURE
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By many accounts the first modern Italian novel, Manzoni's 1827 classic concerns star-crossed lovers in 17th-century Lombardy. Promoted during unification, Italy's best-known novel has been made into films and a musical.
(ITL414, $18.00)
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