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These 5 items are available for $63, including U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXITL518)

Eyewitness Guide Naples, Pompeii & Amalfi Coast  •  Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 240 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, $20.00)
Fodor's Rome's 25 Best  •  Fodor's GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 96 PAGES A shirt-pocket guide to Rome, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing -- all in a slipcover. (ITL112, $11.95)
Pompeii, The Day a City Died  •  Robert Etienne ARCHAEOLOGY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 215 PAGES An illustrated pocket history of Pompeii and its archaeology. The great value of this comprehensive little book is Etienne's loving reconstruction of daily life in the city as told by its evocative frescoes, mosaics and other treasures. With a useful chronology, hundreds of illustrations and carefully chosen selection of writings over the ages, it's an indispensable guide to the archaeology and life of Pompeii. A volume in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series. (ITL01, $12.95)
La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind  •  Beppe Severgnini CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2007 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES 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, $12.95)
Campania Region Map  •  Touring Club Italiano MAP A colorful map of Campania, including Naples and the Amalfi Coast at a scale of 1:200,000. (ITL116, $12.95)

Naples Map  •  Touring Club Italiano    •  A good locally published map of Naples. (ITL280, $12.95)
Rome Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A handy map at a scale of 1:11,000, with a more detailed overview of the city center. (ITL60, $8.95)
Insight Guide Southern Italy  •  Roger Williams   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A colorful guide to the culture, history and attractions of Italy south of Rome, featuring hundreds of photographs and excellent local and regional maps. (ITL458, $23.95)
Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook  •  Lonely Planet   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy, palm-size phrasebook for the traveler. (ITL531, $8.99)
Naples: The City and Its Famous Bay, Capri, Sorrento, Ischia, and the Amalfi Coast Down to Paestum  •  Touring Club Italiano   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical, comprehensive guide with excellent maps published by the Touring Club Italiano. (ITL509, $16.95)
Biba's Italy  •  Biba Caggiano   • FOOD  •  Ms. 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)
Naples at Table  •  Arthur Schwartz   • FOOD  •  A celebration of the food of Naples and Campania. Schwartz, host of "Foodtalk", covers not only the food (with over 100 recipes), but also the culture, history, and myths of the region. (ITL146, $32.95)
The Food of Italy  •  Waverly Root   • FOOD  •  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 wonderful culinary guide. (ITL75, $19.95)
Inside the Vatican  •  Bart McDowell  •  Jim Stanfield   • RELIGION  •  A selection of stunning behind-the-scenes color photographs of the Vatican. The text describes the city-state's history and gives some background on the modern popes. (ITL55, $18.00)
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)
Pompeii, Public and Private Life  •  Paul Zanker  •  Deborah Schneider   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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, $28.00)
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)
Ancient Rome: Monuments Past and Present  •  R.A. Staccioli   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  In this volume, the Colosseum, the Forum, the Capitoline Hill and other monuments are shown first as they look today and next, via overlaid acetate illustrations, as they looked in their heydays. (ITL422, $29.95)
The Colosseum  •  Keith Hopkins  •  Mary Beard   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An engaging overview of the history of the Colosseum. Hopkins and Beard sweep aside misconceptions, taking shots at Hollywood (and others) for perpetrating tales of gladiator-eating lions, Nero fiddling and other myths. (ITL654, $19.95)
The Search for Ancient Rome  •  Claude Moatti   • ARCHAEOLOGY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  This pocket-sized portrait of Rome and its archaeology features hundreds of color photos and paintings, a chronology and history. (ITL18, $12.95)
Greene on Capri, A Memoir  •  Shirley Hazzard   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This book is ultimately a memoir about the author's friendship with Graham Greene, but there's plenty of commentary of Capri's history and culture for those seeking a flavor of the place. (ITL440, $15.00)
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)
Italian Journey, 1786-1788  •  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  •  W.H. Auden  •  Elizabeth Meyer   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The journals and letters from Goethe's 'grand tour' of southern Italy as translated by W.H. Auden. In addition to much musing on philosophy and art, it includes some wonderful writing on the Italian landscape. (ITL144, $17.00)
Cabal  •  Michael Dibdin   • MYSTERY  •  Zen is called to the Vatican to investigate the death of Prince Ludovico Ruspanti, who plunged from the roof of St. Peter's Basilica. (ITL620, $13.95)
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)
The Volcano Lover, A Romance  •  Susan Sontag   • LITERATURE  •  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, $15.00)
Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth  •  Maurice Krafft   • NATURAL HISTORY • COMING IN  •  This illustrated pocket encyclopedia in the Discoveries series, featuring hundreds of full color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992). (GEO06, $12.95)