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Eyewitness Guide Sicily
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2010 FLEXI-BOUND 240 PAGES
This superb guide to Sicily features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a synopsis of the island's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(ITL468, $23.00)
On Persephone's Island
Mary Taylor Simeti
CULTURAL PORTRAIT 1986 PAPER 352 PAGES
A richly detailed and personal portrait of Sicily by an American writer who settled on the island with her Sicilian husband in 1962 and stayed for 20 years. Strong on the delights of rural life, her book takes the form of a yearlong journal, capturing the spirit of the people and land. It provides a deep understanding of daily life and traditions -- an excellent antidote to persistent myths of mafiosos and backwards peasants.
(ITL03, $14.95)
Midnight in Sicily, On Art, Food, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra
Peter Robb
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 2007 PAPER 400 PAGES
FAVORITE
A vivid report from Italy's glorious, corrupt and troubled south, this book combines interviews, journalism and essays on Sicilian history and culture. Robb focuses, in part, on the career of Giulio Andreotti, the seven-time prime minister of Italy recently accused of Mafia associations.
(ITL74, $17.00)
Sicily Map
Touring Club Italiano
MAP
A traveler's map of Sicily at the very good scale of 1:200,000, ideal for anyone on a driving trip of the island. The detail is great if you don't mind folding it out to its full poster size. (The laminated version ITL20 conveniently gives you the island at a glance). Two Sides. 37x54 inches.
(ITL181, $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)
Blue Guide Sicily
Ellen Grady
GUIDEBOOK
This in-depth guide to Sicily's ancient history and archae-ology features detailed maps and site plans.
(ITL125, $26.95)
Eat Smart in Sicily, How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure
Joan Peterson
GUIDEBOOK
Discover the heart of Sicilian culture through its sumptuous cuisine with this pocket guide.
(ITL911, $13.95)
Fodor's Rome's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
This shirt-pocket guide includes a map of the city and essential information on its highlights.
(ITL112, $11.99)
Michelin Green Guide Sicily
Michelin Travel Publications
GUIDEBOOK
Organized alphabetically and featuring Michelin's famous star ratings, this venerable driving guide includes excellent local maps and site plans, suggested tours and visitor sites.
(ITL795, $21.95)
The Foods of Sicily and Sardinia and the Smaller Islands
John Dominis
Giuliano Bugialli
FOOD
Bugialli presents a truly authentic and comprehensive cuisine in these illustrated pages, including not just recipes but also wonderful photography and cultural notes.
(ITL297, $37.50)
Between Salt Water and Holy Water, A History of Southern Italy
Tommaso Astarita
HISTORY
Astarita captures the fanfare, rivalry and changing fortunes of Sicily from antiquity through Norman, Spanish and Bourbon rule to unification and the 20th century.
(ITL597, $22.95)
Excellent Cadavers, The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
Alexander Stille
HISTORY
This fast-paced book is a gripping account of corruption in Italy. The author offers an utterly absorbing account of the assassination of two top anti-Mafia prosecutors in 1992.
(ITL58, $16.00)
Sicily, Three Thousand Years of Human History
Sandra Benjamin
HISTORY
With clarity and authority, Benjamin traces the rich legacy of the Greeks and Romans, Vandals and Goths, Arab traders, Normans, Bourbons and others who have contributed to the multi-faceted history of the kingdom of Sicily.
(ITL731, $19.95)
The Greek Cities of Magna Graecia and Sicily
Fausto Longo
Lorena Jannelli
Luca Cerchiai
HISTORY
An engaging history of the Western Greek colonies in Sicily and southern Italy in the eight and seventh centuries B.C., featuring 240 magnificent color illustrations, maps and a site-by-site review of major archaeological sites.
(ITL751, $45.00)
The Sicilian Vespers, A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
Steven Runciman
HISTORY
A spellbinding history of the 13th-century Kingdom of Sicily. The massacre of the French at Palermo, known as the Sicilian Vespers, is the springboard for the author's sweeping depiction of the Mediterranean in the late 1200s.
(ITL295, $21.99)
Ancient Sicily, Monuments Past & Present
G. Messineo
E. Borgia
ARCHAEOLOGY
In this illuminating overview, ingenious overlays depict 17 important sites as they appear today and how they may have appeared in the past.
(ITL733, $29.95)
Archaeology of Ancient Sicily
R. Ross Holloway
ARCHAEOLOGY
A marvelously lucid, concise and comprehensive history of ancient civilizations and archaeology of the Mediterranean from the Paleolithic to the Romans. With ample illustrations, site diagrams and maps.
(ITL521, $47.95)
Palaces of Sicily
Angheli Zalapi
Melo Minella
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A sumptuously illusrtated survey of the history of grand villas and palaces in Sicily spanning Norman, Aragon, Catalan, Baroque and the 18th-century.
(ITL675, $40.00)
A House in Sicily
Daphne Phelps
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
An old-fashioned memoir of life at Casa Cuseni, the pensione and garden in Taormina run by the indomitable Daphne Phelps, which has been a sanctuary for Tennessee Williams, Betrand Russell and other guests, famous and infamous, since 1947.
(ITL148, $16.95)
The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader
Lawrence Durrell
Clint Willis
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
OUT OF PRINT
Durrell's intoxicating reflections on Greece and the Mediterranean. With chapters on Corfu, Rhodes, Cyprus, Sicily, Delphi and Provence.
(GRE186, $15.00)
A Vittorini Omnibus
Elio Vittorini
Ernest Hemingway
LITERATURE
These short novels by a modern master include Vittorini's classic tale of a sophisticated man who returns to his native village, In Sicily.
(ITL10, $18.95)
Little Novels of Sicily
Giovanni Verga
D.H. Lawrence
LITERATURE
A collection of the Sicilian writer's best tales selected and translated by D.H. Lawrence in 1925.
(ITL472, $15.00)
The Leopard
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
LITERATURE
FAVORITE
Evoking a lost world of privilege and tradition, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa's evocative tale, set on a rural Sicilian estate during the days of independence, follows the world-weary Don Fabrizio, Prince of Salina.
(ITL11, $14.95)
The Ruby in Her Navel, A Novel of Love and Intrigue in the 12th Century
Barry Unsworth
LITERATURE
Unsworth transports the reader to the 12th century in this richly imagined novel of love and intrigue set in Norman Sicily, where Christian knights, Anatolian belly dancers, Jews and Arabs mix and mingle.
(ITL760, $14.95)
The Shape of Water
Andrea Camilleri
MYSTERY
The first installment in Camilleri's wildly popular Inspector Montalbano mysteries, nicely translated and shot through (pun intended) with not just memorable characters but also with Sicilian lore and politics. The series continues in eight best-selling installments, including The Patience of the Spider (ITL826, $13.00), which finds Montalbano aging not so gracefully but still animated by wine and women.
(ITL528, $14.00)
The Wine-Dark Sea
Leonardo Sciascia
Avril Bardoni
Alberto Mobilio
LITERATURE
A collection of 13 stories, all set in the celebrated writer's native Sicily and featuring mafiosi, carabinieri and villagers.
(ITL408, $12.95)
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