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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)
	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)
	Tuscany in Mind  •  Alice Powers ANTHOLOGY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES These selections, including D.H. Lawrence, Robert Browning, Mary McCarthy, to Eric Newby, Erica Jong and David Leavitt, cover a wide range of subjects, from the region's geography to its history and culture and (of course) the food. Another fine literary anthology from the editor of Italy in Mind. Powers provides an appreciative introduction to each 8-10 page selection, focusing on the transforamtion wrought upon American and British writers. (ITL607, $14.95)
	Footprint Tuscany  •  Rebecca Ford GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES Featuring hundred of color photographs and maps, this informative guide balances an overview of history, culture and nature with helpful travel information. Includes Florence. With popout map. (ITA91, $21.95)
	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)

	Cadogan Guide Tuscany  •  Dana Facaros  •  Michael Pauls   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This just published fifth edition covers all Tuscany, from the medieval glories of Lucca and San Gimignano, to the Renaissance charms and Medici legacy of Florence, the wine routes of Chianti and Pisa's Leaning Tower. One in a series of revised Cadogan Guides by the team of Dana Facaros and Michael Paul, all with expanded color photographs and new maps. (ITA146, $21.95)
	Culture Smart! Italy  •  Charles Abbott   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, no-nonsense guide to Italian customs, etiquette and culture along with helpful travel advice. (ITL877, $9.95)
	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)
	Frommer's Florence & the Best of Tuscany Day by Day  •  Darwin Porter   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center. (ITL737, $13.99)
	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)
	Michelin Green Guide Tuscany  •   Michelin Travel Publications   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A thorough introduction to the region in the classic Michelin style, featuring brief descriptions of all the major attractions. We include it for its broad coverage, and especially for its excellent local maps. (ITL139, $21.99)
	Village Walks Tuscany  •  Martha Fay   • GUIDEBOOK  •  From Florence, Lucca, Sienna and Pisa to out-of-the-way hill towns, these 50 convenient cards, each with a suggested walk and map on the reverse, will guide you all over Tuscany. (ITA171, $14.95)
	A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany  •  Beth Elon   • FOOD  •  A resident in Tuscany for 30 years, Beth Elon presents 100 recipes from a hand-picked selection of favorite restaurants in this charming cookbook and travel guide. With 10 itineraries highlighting largely undiscovered regions of Tuscany, restaurants, trattorie, shops, wineries, olive oil producers, markets and food festivals. (ITL729, $17.95)
	The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy  •  Hugh Johnson  •  Nicholas Belfrage   • FOOD  •  This astute guide to wine-making regions and villages in Tuscany includes a history of Tuscan grapes and culture, excellent color maps, and profiles of select vintners and wines. (ITA72, $34.95)
	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  •  Hales, "a sensible woman of sturdy Polish stock," writes with verve and humor of her journey into the Italian of the piazza, literature, movies and streets in this charming memoir, travelogue and cultural primer. Brava, Signora! A Longitude Best of 2009. (ITA26, $15.00)
	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)
	The Renaissance, A Short History  •  Paul Johnson   • HISTORY  •  The history, background, literature, sculpture, paintings and architecture of the Renaissance in just over 200 lively, thought-provoking pages. (ITL774, $14.00)
	The Art of the Renaissance  •  Peter Murray   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A classic, illustrated survey of the world of the Renaissance and its art. With chapters on Florence and its artists, the Netherlands, early illustrated books and many individual artists. (ITL14, $18.95)
	Every Day in Tuscany, Seasons of an Italian Life  •  Frances Mayes   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Twenty years later Mayes is still besotted by Italy -- by her house, the tumbling geraniums, white hydrangeas, the people and food of Tuscany -- all lovingly documented in this third delightful memoir, her best yet. With recipes throughout, notes and interludes in Portofino, Assisi and Rome, along with an appreciative chapter on Renaissance master Luca Signorelli. (ITA124, $25.00)
	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)
	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)
	Too Much Tuscan Sun, Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide  •  Roberto Rodi  •  Dario Castagno   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  With affection and humor, Castagno recalls his experience as a tour guide in Tuscany, and the remarkable travelers he meets along the way. His ease with and taste for Chianti combine to evoke intoxicating images of the much-loved Tuscan region. (ITL547, $14.95)
	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 Tuscany. (ITL219, $14.95)
	Tuscany and Umbria, The Collected Traveler  •  Barrie Kerper   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Kerper hauled out her clipping files, interviewed her friends and raided her library for this inspired miscellany -- a quirky guide to the history, food, and landscape of Tuscany and Umbria. With travel essays, recommended reading and suggested hotels, restaurants, sights and shops. (ITL389, $19.00)
	Summer's Lease  •  John Mortimer   • MYSTERY  •  A well-paced mystery set in the Tuscan countryside, by Sir John MOrimer, author of Rumpole of the Bailey. Poor Molly Pargeter's idyll is upset when the water supply fails and a neighbor dies. John Gielgud starred in the Masterpiece Theatre adaptation as the seriously mischievous Haverford Downs. (ITL580, $15.00)

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