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Eyewitness Guide Italian Riviera
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2005 PAPER 224 PAGES
A handsome, beautifully illustrated and informative compact guide to Liguria. It covers places, recommended excursions, hotels and attractions along the spectacular Mediterranean coast from the border with France east to La Spezia.
(ITL566, $20.00)
Insight Guide Tuscany
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2009 PAPER 304 PAGES
An illustrated guide in this popular series, noteworthy for its maps and illuminating short essays on Tuscan food, history and culture.
(ITL156, $18.99)
Too Much Tuscan Sun, Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide
Roberto Rodi Dario Castagno
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2004 PAPER 224 PAGES
Though not a native chiantigiano, Dario Castagno, residing in Italy since age ten, offers a memoir detailing his experiences as a tour guide in Tuscany. Castagno's ease and taste for the Chianti region combine to evoke intoxicating images of the much loved Tuscan hill towns.
(ITL547, $14.95)
Liguria Regional Map
Touring Club Italiano
MAP
A map of the region, including Cinque Terra, at a scale of 1:200,000. One Side. 37x54 inches.
(ITL118, $12.95)
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)
Cinque Terre Map
Litographia Artistica Cartographica
A detailed shaded relief walking and road map of the Cinque Terre at a scale of 1:40,000.
(ITL159, $10.95)
Emilia-Romagna Map
Touring Club Italiano
The most detailed map of the region available, imported from Italy.
(ITL421, $12.95)
Riviera di Levante, Golfo Tigullio, Cinque Terre
Litographia Artistica Cartographica
A regional map at a scale of 1:140,000.
(ITL779, $10.95)
Cadogan Italian Riviera & Piemonte
Michael Pauls
Dana Facaros
GUIDEBOOK
An authoritative guide to Liguria, including Cinque Terre, Portofino, Genoa and lesser-known destinations. Strong on practical information, it's also a good overview of the history, culture and cuisine of the region.
(ITL407, $19.95)
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
This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map and essential information on the city's highlights, including sightseeing, restaurants and shopping.
(ITL140, $11.95)
Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
Rick Steves
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
This compact phrase book, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary, also includes Steves' insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world.
(ITL424, $7.95)
A Ligurian Kitchen, Recipes And Tales from the Italian Riviera
Laura Giannatempo
FOOD
BEST SELLER
A charming, personal cookbook with an abundance of authentic Ligurian recipes that can easily be replicated in an American kitchen.
(ITL862, $29.95)
Biba's Italy
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)
The Food of Italy
Waverly Root
FOOD
Evocative of Italy and its diverse cuisine, this classic book, organized geographically, offers a cook's tour of the country. It's a well-informed and wonderful culinary guide.
(ITL75, $19.95)
The Food of Italy, Region by Region
Claudia Roden
FOOD
OUT OF PRINT
The marvelous Claudia Roden, who spent a year visiting cooks throughout Italy, presents 300 easy-to-prepare recipes in the context of Italian history, culture and geography.
(ITL683, $19.95)
The Tuscan Year, Tuscan Life and Food in an Italian Valley
Elizabeth Romer
FOOD
FAVORITE
An intimate portrait of life on a Tuscan farm as seen primarily through the robust food and a Longitude favorite. 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.
(ITL131, $14.00)
La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
Beppe Severgnini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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)
The Italians
Luigi Barzini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
The definitive portrait of the Italian people, this is a classic, scholarly essay on the Italian character. Though first published in 1964, it's still worth reading for its insight, grace and wit.
(ITL05, $16.00)
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)
Tuscan Country, A Photographer's Journey
Wes Walker
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Walker captures the allure of the hill towns, including Siena, Lucca, Pisa and smaller cities and villages in 100 luminous color photographs.
(ITL848, $29.95)
Renaissance Art
Gerard Legrand
ART & ARCHITECTURE
OUT OF PRINT
An informative, illustrated overview of Renaissance art from Rome to Venice, including an in-depth chapter on Florence, biographies of key artists and a handy chronology.
(ITL850, $16.95)
Extra Virgin, A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera
Annie Hawes
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A memoir of travels and life in Liguria, where the Hawe sisters ventured and stayed. In this refreshingly candid account, the English sisters end up buying a house and learning the local customs and eccentricities of their neighbors in Diano San Pietro.
(ITL539, $14.95)
Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron
Edward Trelawney
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The lives and deaths of these two most romantic of Romantic poets are lovingly recounted in this memoir by Edward Trelawny. Trelawny was a fascinating figure in his own right, and his tribute to his two lost friends bears all the marks of his own generous, wild personality.
(ITL336, $10.95)
The Hills of Tuscany, A New Life in an Old Land
Ferenc Mate
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A memoir of the author and his wife, a painter, living among farmers in rural Tuscany. Mate's love of Italy, and especially of its food, comes through loud and clear.
(ITL155, $15.00)
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)
Call Me by Your Name
Andre Aciman
LITERATURE
Aciman captures the lazy, languorous days and nights on the Mediterranean in this gay coming-of-age story set on the Italian Riviera.
(ITL828, $14.00)
Portofino, A Novel
Frank Schaeffer
LITERATURE
Set in the 1960s, this coming-of-age tale follows a young boy's encounters with the sights and people of the seaside town of Portofino, while he avoids his missionary parents' constant bickering and their attempts to convert the locals.
(ITL164, $15.00)
Wildflowers of Britain and Europe, Compact Guide
W. Lippert
D. Podlech
FIELD GUIDE
A compact photographic guide to British and European wildflowers, covering 350 of the most commonly encountered species. Flowers are organized by color for easy identification.
(EUR46, $19.99)
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