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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.
(ITL156, $18.95)
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)
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)
Tuscany Map
Touring Club Italiano
MAP
A fine and detailed regional map of Tuscany at a scale of 1:200,000. The most detailed map of the region available, imported from Italy. One Side. 54x37 inches.
(ITL102, $12.95)
Fodor's Florence's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map and essential information on the city's highlights, including sightseeing, restaurants and shopping.
(ITL140, $11.95)
Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide
Laura Morelli
GUIDEBOOK
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)
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)
The Tuscan Year, Tuscan Life and Food in an Italian Valley
Elizabeth Romer
FOOD
FAVORITE
An intimate portrait of life on a Tuscan farm as seen primarily through the robust food and a Longitude favorite. 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.
(ITL131, $14.00)
Ancient Rome, Cultural Atlas For Young People
Mike Corbishley
HISTORY
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Offers a wealth of lively information about the geography, society, religion, and politics of Ancient Rome.
(ITL854, $35.00)
La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
Beppe Severgnini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
BEST SELLER
Hugely popular in Italy, this guide to the Italian character addresses the apparently 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, $12.95)
La Bella Lingua
Dianne Hales
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
NEW
Signed Book Plates. Inebriated with the sounds of Italian, Hales, "a sensible woman of sturdy Polish stock," dives into the Italian of the piazze, literature, movies and streets in this charming memoir and cultural primer. Brava, Signora!
(ITA26, $24.95)
Siena, City of the Virgin
Titus Burckhardt
HISTORY
Burckhardt's classic portrait includes dozens of illustrations, maps and photographs of architecture and early Renaissance art of Siena.
(ITL974, $22.95)
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)
Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena (1260-1555)
Diana Norman
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An illustrated survey of the remarkable, original art of Siena.
(ITL698, $45.00)
The Arts of Tuscany, From the Etruscans to Ferragamo
Marina Belozerskaya
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Lavishly illustrated and rich with stories of Tuscan arts and their creators, this handsome book is an excellent introduction to the history and culture of this celebrated region.
(ITL973, $50.00)
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, $21.15)
On The Road with Francis of Assisi
Linda Bird Francke
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Assisi wandered for 20 years, affording Newsweek editor Francke and her patient husband plenty to see and do in the piazzas, sanctuaries and chapels of Assisi, Siena, Bologna, Venice, Gubbio, Rome and other choice spots.
(ITL647, $15.95)
Reluctant Saint, The Life of Francis of Assisi
Donald Spoto
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Spoto draws on fascinating new research to explore the travels, spirit and work of the beloved saint. This engaging portrait provides an excellent overview of the life of St. Francis.
(ITL849, $15.00)
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)
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)
Tuscany in Mind
Alice Powers
ANTHOLOGY
A fine literary anthology covering the region's history, geography, culture and (of course) food, featuring contributions by luminaries including D.H. Lawrence and Robert Browning.
(ITL607, $14.95)
Amazing Disgrace
James Hamilton-Paterson
LITERATURE
Darker than Hamilton-Paterson's previous outing (Cooking With Fernet) starring Gerald Samper, this hilarious sequel skewers British pretension and the glories of expatriate life in Tuscany.
(ITL806, $14.95)
Summer's Lease
John Mortimer
MYSTERY
The protagonist's idyll is upset when the water supply fails and a neighbor dies. A well-paced mystery set in the Tuscan countryside, by the author of Rumpole of the Bailey.
(ITL580, $15.00)
Tuscany For Beginners
Imogen Edwards-Jones
LITERATURE
In this deliciously wicked tale, British novelist Edward-Jones skewers the pretensions of the English abroad, taking as her target the sodden proprietress of a mediocre B&B in Tuscany.
(ITL609, $13.95)
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