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Tuscany & the Island of Elba
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 3 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXITL672) |
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Eyewitness Guide Florence & Tuscany
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 336 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) |
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Tuscan Country, A Photographer's Journey
• Wes Walker
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2007 •
HARD COVER
• 160 PAGES
Wes Walker captures the allure of the hill towns, vineyards, fields and villages in 100 luminous color photographs. Literary excerpts from the works of both Italian writers and literary visitors accompany the photographs, including Italo Calvino, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Frances Mayes.
(ITL848, $29.95) |
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Tuscany Map
• Touring Club Italiano
2011 •
MAP
A detailed map of Tuscany at a scale of 1:200,000. Imported from Italy. One Side. 54x37 inches.
(ITL102, $14.95) |
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Also Recommended
Fodor's Florence's 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map and essential information on the city's highlights, including sightseeing, restaurants and shopping.
(ITL140, $11.99)
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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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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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La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
• Beppe Severgnini
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• BEST SELLER
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Italians themselves love this guide to the Italian character, which addresses their never-ending passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. Severgnini opens the book with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa Airport, then moves on to Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia.
(ITL718, $14.00)
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The Etruscans
• Graeme Barker
• Tom Rasmussen
• HISTORY
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This illustrated history incorporates the most recent archaeological evidence, bringing to life Etruscan culture, economics and innovations, and the artistic achievements and artifacts that continue to capture our imagination.
(ITL169, $47.95)
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The Renaissance, A Short History
• Paul Johnson
• HISTORY
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The history, background, literature, sculpture, paintings and architecture of the Renaissance in just over 200 lively, thought-provoking pages.
(ITL774, $15.00)
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Etruscan Art
• Nigel Spivey
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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In this illustrated and wide-ranging introduction, Nigel Spivey brings the Etruscan world to life, illuminating the social, political and cultural context of the art objects and artifacts that remain the singular achievement of the Etruscans.
(ITL68, $18.95)
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D.H. Lawrence and Italy
• D.H. Lawrence
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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This omnibus Penguin Classics edition includes Lawrence's 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)
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In Maremma, Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
• David Leavitt
• Mark Mitchell
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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This new edition of Mitchell and Leavitt's witty memoir of life in southern Tuscany includes new illustrations and color photographs.
(ITL287, $18.95)
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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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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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Napoleon
• Paul Johnson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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British historian Johnson doesn't hold back in this enlightening, short biography in the inspired Penguin Lives series. In just over 200 pages, he not only traces the major events of the emperor's life, from his birth on Corsica to his death on St. Helena, but also exposes Napoleon's ruthless appetite for power and his naked opportunism.
(FRN348, $14.00)
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Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves, An American Naturalist in Italy
• Gary Paul Nabhan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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)
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Under the Tuscan Sun
• Frances Mayes
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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)
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The Hundred Days
• Patrick O'Brian
• LITERATURE
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Napoleon's escape from Elba as filtered through the marvelous novelistic lens of Patrick O'Brian.
(MED38, $14.95)
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Tourmaline, A Novel
• Joanna Scott
• LITERATURE
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Convinced that the island's mineral wealth will turn around his own personal misfortune, an eccentric geologist decamps for Elba in 1956 in this absorbing novel of a family in trouble. Scott interweaves the fictitious tale with plenty of detail about Elba and Napoleon's exile.
(FRN368, $13.95)
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Travelers' Tales Tuscany
• Tara Austen Weaver
• James O'Reilly
• ANTHOLOGY
• COMING IN
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An anthology of great excerpts from travel essays about Tuscany, with pieces from Saul Bellow, Frances Mayes and Ferenc Mate, among others.
(ITL315, $16.95)
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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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