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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $71, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXITL664)		  
Eyewitness Guide Naples & Amalfi Coast  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 256 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, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Naples & Amalfi Coast
The Ancient Shore  •  Shirley Hazzard
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2009 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES
Written over several decades, Hazzard's lovely, lyrical collection of essays captures the history, beauty, complexities and contradictions of Naples. The book includes a celebrated New Yorker essay by her late husband Francis Steegmuller. (ITL967, $18.00)		   The Ancient Shore
The Fires of Vesuvius, Pompeii Lost and Found  •  Mary Beard
ARCHAEOLOGY •  2010 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES
Mary Beard (The Parthenon) reconstructs daily life in the Roman city before the eruption of 24 August 79 in this lucid and lively guide to Pompeii. Series editor for the pocket Wonders of the World by Harvard University Press, Beard is a Classicist at Cambridge, well poised to bring to light what we know and what we don't know about the celebrated city with clarity. (ITA46, $17.95)		   The Fires of Vesuvius, Pompeii Lost and Found
Campania Basilicata Map  •  Touring Club Italiano
MAP
A colorful, durable map of Campania, including Naples and the Amalfi Coast at a scale of 1:200,000. Two Sides. 38x54 inches. (ITL116, $14.95)		   Campania Basilicata Map



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