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Tuscany   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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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. This re-launched regional guide, now with restaurant and hotel recommendations, is in a smaller, handier size and comes with a separate touring map. (ITL156, $18.95)
  Insight Guide Tuscany
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)
  Tuscan Country: A Photographer's Journey
The Tuscan Year: Tuscan Life and Food in an Italian Valley  •  Elizabeth Romer
FOOD •  1996 •  PAPER  • 182 PAGES • FAVORITE
An intimate portrait of life on a Tuscan farm, as seen primarily through the robust food. 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. The index makes it easy to look up recipes if you're inspired to use this wonderful account as a cookbook. (ITL131, $14.00)
  The Tuscan Year: Tuscan Life and Food in an Italian Valley
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)
  Travelers' Tales Tuscany
Tuscany Map  •   Touring Club Italiano
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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. (ITL102, $12.95)
  Tuscany Map
 

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Authentic Tuscany  •   Touring Club Italiano   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide to Tuscany, featuring excellent maps, suggested itineraries, a rating system for restaurants, hotels and attractions, and an idiosyncratic planning guide by subject. (ITL591, $18.95)
 
 
Discovering Wine Country, Tuscany  •  Monty Waldin   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Both a guide to wine and to wine country, this handy book features over 100 color photographs, maps, an overview of the wines of Tuscany, suggested wine tours, traveler's tips and recommended producers. (ITL775, $19.95)
 
 
Fodor's Florence's 25 Best  •   Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A shirt-pocket guide and map. (ITL140, $11.95)
 
 
Footprint Siena & the Heart of Tuscany  •  Rebecca Ford   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A detailed, practical guide to Siena and surroundings, part of the excellent British series. With background on the history, art, architecture and attractions of Siena, the book also features details on day trips to San Gimignano, Volterra and Montalcino. (ITL688, $12.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria  •  James Ladsun  •  Pia Davis   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide to walking and eating your way through the region, this book includes 40 suggested itineraries, mostly day hikes, with maps, details on local attractions, and illustrations. (ITL97, $20.00)
 
 
Biba's Italy, Favorite Recipes from the Splendid Cities  •  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)
 
 
La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind  •  Beppe Severgnini   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • NEW  •  Hugely popular in Italy, this guide to the Italian character addresses the apparently neverending passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. Severgnini opens the book with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa, moving on to Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia. (ITL718, $12.95)
 
 
Siena, City of the Virgin  •  Titus Burckhardt   • HISTORY • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  Renowned author and UNESCO worker Burckhardt's concise, classic history of Siena, in a generously illustrated new edition. (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)
 
 
Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Palazzo Pubblico, Siena  •  Randolph Starn   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Lorenzetti painted the famed fresco cycle "Allegory of Good and Bad Government" in Siena's town hall. This beautifully illustrated short book looks specifically at that work, done between 1338-40. (ITL434, $25.00)
 
 
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, $18.00)
 
 
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, $14.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944  •  Iris Origo  •  Denis Mack Smith   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A diary of day-to-day heroism and fortitude. The author and her family take children, deserters, escaped prisoners, and Jews fleeing the advancing Germans into their home in Abruzzo. (ITL219, $14.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
Valperga  •  Mary Shelley  •  Tilottama Rajan   • LITERATURE  •  This precursor to Frankenstein is a dark, historical romance set in 14th-century Tuscany. Also titled "The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca." (ITL216, $18.95)
 
 


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