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Cadogan Italy: Three Cities --You no longer need to lug around a guide to all of Italy if you are simply planning to visit Italy's three most popular stops: Rome, Venice and Florence. Cadogan has had the good sense to create a single volume covering only those great cities, with everything you need to enjoy them fully. Authors Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls guide you to all the sights, lodgings and food options, and offer well-written introductions to the history, culture and cuisine. $14.95
Cheap Eats in Italy --Sandra Gustafson has fully revised her incomparable guides to Italy. Here she reviews over 150 inexpensive restaurants, trattorias and caf_s in Rome, Venice and Florence. Her well-researched and dependable recommendations will ensure that you get the most for your lira. $10.95
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Cheap Sleeps in Italy $10.95
The Companion Guide Series --This series is known for its detailed historical, literary, art and architectural background, and unusually informative sightseeing information written by experts (often residents of the place they are writing about). It is now available once again, after being out of print for a number of years. Titles on Italy:
Florence $31.00
Rome $31.00
Sicily $31.00
Venice $24.95
Eating in Italy --Faith Willinger has just updated her wonderful guide to restaurants and food markets in Northern Italy. She has personally reviewed every eatery included here, from elegant four star restaurants to simple family trattorias, and provides contact information, hours of operation and directions for each. A terrific resource for the gourmet (or gourmand) in Italy. $20.00
The Garden Lover's Guide: Italy --Written by garden authority Penelope Hobhouse, this guide leads you to over one hundred public and private gardens, with detailed descriptions, directions and maps that make it easy to plan a tour. Hundreds of color photographs, illustrations and garden plans, as well as tips on nearby sights, make this book indispensable for the garden enthusiast. The only guide available to the gardens of Italy. $19.95
Gault Millau Best of Italy --This discriminating book guides you to the very best hotels, inns, restaurants, shops, nightclubs and museums in Rome, Milan, Florence, Venice and Naples. Its reviews are as fearless and informative as ever, and new chapters have been added on Italian food terminology and wines. $20.00
The Hungry Traveler Italy --To call this pocket-sized book a menu translator does it an injustice. Yes, it translates and describes menu items, but it also discusses the local culinary specialties of every region and province, include tips on wine and shopping at food markets, and describe dishes with such detail and gusto that you will be salivating before you ever get the waiter's attention. $8.95
Independent Walker's Guide to Italy --Take advantage of this new book to explore Italy's off-the-beaten-path hill towns and coastal villages. Frank Booth leads you on 35 walks of all durations and levels of difficulty through all the most beautiful areas of Italy, and provides you with helpful itineraries, planning tips, places to stay and, most importantly, places to eat along the way. $14.95
Italy For the Gourmet Traveler --Fred Plotkin visits 300 cities, towns and villages from the Alps to Sicily in search of each region's food and wine specialties. He guides you to the best restaurants, gourmet shops, vineyards and markets, and includes bits of local lore and culinary tips. He even provides information on cooking schools. 15 maps lead the way, so you can happily follow. $18.95
Karen Brown's Italy: Charming Country Bed & Breakfasts --Karen Brown has chosen rustic Tuscan farmhouses, enchanting stone cottages and gracious country villas for their special ambiance, price and hospitality. Each is described in detail, including how much English the owners speak, so you know what to expect. Maps and driving directions pinpoint your slice of Italian heaven. Now revised annually! $16.95
Karen Brown's Italy: Charming Country Inns and Itineraries --Karen Brown's extensive personal experience and her unerring eye for charm and style create five itineraries (covering cities as well as towns that literally are not on the map) with a romantic villa, majestic castle, or quaint farmhouse at every stop. If you want to stay off the road, one tour brings you the highlights of Italy by train and by boat. Whether you ride or drive, trust Karen Brown to make your vita dolce. $17.95
Rivages Guide to the Hotels and Country Inns of Italy --Fodor's has begun distributing these famous French guides in English, and we are pleased to be able to offer them to you at last. This guide contains detailed descriptions and photographs of over 400 accommodations of "character and charm", from small hotels to inns, farmhouses, and villas located in cities, towns and rural countryside throughout Italy. Full-color maps show the way to each accommodation, and brief reviews of nearby restaurants provide an added bonus. $18.00
Touring Club Italiano Guides to Italy --TCI, the first name in Italian maps, has finally translated some of their wonderful guidebooks into English. Each book contains detailed sightseeing and historical information arranged by region, with over 200 color photographs, dozens of maps and clearly marked walking and driving tours. Fantastico !
Italy $24.95
Florence $16.95
Rome $16.95
Venice $16.95
Berlitz Italian Phrasebook $7.95
Berlitz Italian Cassette Pack (one 90-minute tape and the above phrasebook) $17.95
Collins Gem Italian Dictionary --If you want to buy a vestito or find the spiaggia, use this small but clearly legible dictionary. Take it everywhere in your pocket or purse, and don't worry about rain or spilled espresso-the cover is waterproof. $6.50
Living Italian --To refresh your memory or to learn a new language, use the two audio tapes, conversation manual, and 15,000-word dictionary included in this excellent program. Speak with confidence after only six weeks and make your Italian experience truly special. $20.00
Marling Menu-Master: Italy --Know what you're eating, from antipasto to zuppa inglese. $8.95
Italy in Mind --Forty-one writers celebrate their love of Italy through the letters, poems, short stories, memoirs and essays collected in this lovely new anthology. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison explores Sicily, Mary McCarthy Venice, D.H. Lawrence writes about Sardinia, and Henry James about Florence. Other contributors include Susan Sontag, Lord Byron, Kate Simon and Michael Ondaatje, to name a few. $14.00