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COUNTRY WALKERS
Italy: The Tuscan Coast & Elba Island
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/B49421. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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These 3 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXITL474) |
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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) |
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D.H. Lawrence and Italy
• D.H. Lawrence
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 495 PAGES
A collection of D.H. Lawrence's travel writings on Italy, each wonderful and very different in tone. "Sea and Sardinia" is a nostalgic look at traditional ways of life on the island, "Twilight in Italy" an evocation of Lawrence's stay on Lake Garda and "Etruscan Places" a meditation on ancient lives.
(ITL62, $18.00) |
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Tuscany Map
• Touring Club Italiano
2011 •
MAP
A detailed map of Tuscany at a scale of 1:200,000. Imported from Italy. One Side. 54x37 inches.
(ITL102, $14.95) |
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Also Recommended
50 Hikes in & Around Tuscany, Hiking the Mountains, Forests, Coast & Historic Sites of Wild Tuscany & Beyond
• Jeff Taylor
• GUIDEBOOK
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With day and overnight hikes from Liguria to Toscana itself, Umbria, Abruzzo, Le Marche and Emilia-Romagna, with a cluster of suggested mountain hikes in the Apennine's and coastal walks in Maremma.
(ITL827, $16.95)
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Fodor's Florence's 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map and essential information on the city's highlights, including sightseeing, restaurants and shopping.
(ITL140, $11.99)
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Walking
• Henry David Thoreau
• REFERENCE
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Slip this pocket edition of Thoreau's meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel in your daypack for inspiration.
(WLK04, $9.99)
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Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria
• James Ladsun
• Pia Davis
• GUIDEBOOK
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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)
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La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
• Beppe Severgnini
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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Italians themselves love this guide to the Italian character, which 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, $14.00)
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The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany
• James Bentley
• Hugh Palmer
• HISTORY
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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)
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A Traveller in Italy
• H.V. Morton
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The much-beloved, enduring account of Morton's ramblings in the temples, tombs and villas of Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia and the Veneto.
(ITL417, $25.00)
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In Tuscany
• Bob Krist
• Frances Mayes
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An edition of Maye's warm, anecdotal account of life on her now-restored Tuscan estate, much enhanced by Bob Krist's color photographs.
(ITL348, $35.00)
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Napoleon
• Paul Johnson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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British historian Johnson doesn't hold back in this enlightening, short biography in the inspired Penguin Lives series. In just over 200 pages, he not only traces the major events of the emperor's life, from his birth on Corsica to his death on St. Helena, but also exposes Napoleon's ruthless appetite for power and his naked opportunism.
(FRN348, $14.00)
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Too Much Tuscan Sun, Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide
• Roberto Rodi
• Dario Castagno
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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Under the Tuscan Sun
• Frances Mayes
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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)
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Amazing Disgrace
• James Hamilton-Paterson
• LITERATURE
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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)
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Italian Folktales
• Italo Calvino
• LITERATURE
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A treasured collection of 200 lively folk tales presented by none other than the great Italo Calvino, a modern master with great affection for the folkloric traditions of his childhood.
(ITL314, $25.00)
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Summer's Lease
• John Mortimer
• MYSTERY
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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, $18.00)
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The Walker's Literary Companion
• Robert Gilbert
• Anne Wallace
• Jeffrey Robinson
• ANTHOLOGY
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A diverse sampling of literature on the pleasures of walking, representing philosophers, naturalists, outcasts, athletes and intellectuals from Plato to Frank O'Hara.
(WLK08, $24.00)
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Tourmaline, A Novel
• Joanna Scott
• LITERATURE
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Convinced that the island's mineral wealth will turn around his own personal misfortune, an eccentric geologist decamps for Elba in 1956 in this absorbing novel of a family in trouble. Scott interweaves the fictitious tale with plenty of detail about Elba and Napoleon's exile.
(FRN368, $13.95)
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Travelers' Tales Tuscany
• Tara Austen Weaver
• James O'Reilly
• ANTHOLOGY
• COMING IN
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An anthology of great excerpts from travel essays about Tuscany, with pieces from Saul Bellow, Frances Mayes and Ferenc Mate, among others.
(ITL315, $16.95)
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Tuscany For Beginners
• Imogen Edwards-Jones
• LITERATURE
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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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