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In this memoir of her buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Frances Mayes reveals the sensual pleasure she found living in rural Italy, and the generous spirit she brought with her. She revels in the sunlight and the color, the long view of her valley, the warm homey architecture, the languor of the slow paced days, the vigor of working her ...

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All the fabled attractions of Italy are covered, from the art and Roman architecture to the history and religion of Vatican City to the sun-drenched beaches of the Italian Riviera and the canals of Venice. 40 maps. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"The more money you spend, the bigger the wall you build between yourself and the culture you traveled so far to visit. Stay in the small inns, eat in family-style restaurants, visit out-of-the-way places, rub elbows with the locals. You'll spend less money and have a great time in the process."

This is Rick Steves's "back door" travel philosophy. For more ...

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Join Rick Steves' on a trip to the Emerald Isle, a land of lush countryside, monastic ruins and medieval castles, and charming people. Enjoy the best of Dublin's pubs and nightlife; explore Kerry's Dingle Peninsula; experience Belfast's complex history. With Rick Steves' Ireland 2004, travelers can delve into Irish culture, make friends with the locals, and expe...

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Home to Shakespeare, magnificent art museums and some of the world's most famous buildings, London is one of the world's most dynamic capitals. Learn to navigate the city on the Underground; view the masterpieces in the British Museum; or take a walking tour of Old London. With Rick Steves' London 2004, travelers can delve into English culture, make friends with...

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Packed with tips for planning the perfect trip to Italy. Softcover. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Reacting to an itch common to Midwesterners since there's been a Midwest from which to escape, writer Bill Bryson moved from Iowa to Britain in 1973. Working for such places as Times of London, among others, he has lived quite happily there ever since. Now Bryson has decided his native country needs him--but first, he's going on a roundabout jaunt on the island...

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Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provençal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all Côtes-du-Rhône and fleur-de-lis? Author Peter Mayle answers that question with wit, warmth, and wicked candor in A Y...

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Rick Steves, author of 21 guidebooks and host of the television series Travels in Europe with Rick Steves, has spent 100 days a year traveling Europe, every year, since 1973. If any American knows Paris, he does, and his self-imposed mission is to make the city just as accessible to those of us who don't have the good fortune to spend months there at a time.

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Home to Dante, magnificent art, astounding architecture, and the world's best gelato, Florence is Europe's cultural capital. Learn to avoid the long lines at Uffizi and the Accademia; find the city's best pensione near the Duomo; enjoy daytrips to the surrounding Tuscan hill towns of Siena, Lucca, and more. With Rick Steves' Florence and Tuscany 2004, travelers ...

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Eyewitness Travel Guides are the original illustrated travel guidebooks-and they're still the best. Since 1993, the Eyewitness brand has established itself as one of the industry leaders, with sales of more than 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Featuring more than 70 worldwide destinations, new titles are being added to the best-selling Eyewitness Travel Gu...

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The essence of London, found "in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead..." (Mrs. Dalloway), is ably conveyed in the visual burst of Dorling ...

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Join Rick Steves on a tour of three of Europe's most fascinating countries. Rick Steves' Germany, Austria, and Switzerland 2004 covers Rothenburg and the Romantic Road; Munich and Bavaria; Salzburg; The Lakes District; Mauthausen and the Danube Valley; Vienna; Tyrol and Innsbruck; Interlaken, Gimmelwald, and the Berner Oberland; Appenzell, Murten and Bern; The B...

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The ruins. The fashions. The wines. The Sopranos. Vespas and espressos, Bella Tuscany, sparkling piazzas and rustic brick farmhouses, frescoed ceilings, and hunks of nutty Parmigiano-Reggiano. No wonder Italy is the most returned-to destination in the world. For art lovers, history buffs, foodies, romantics at heart—Italy is a place of riches and delights. ...

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"The granddaddy of budget guides"
--The New York Times

"Guides that penetrate the veneer of holiday brochures and mine the grit of real life"
--The Economist


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Too bad the essence of Rome can't be bottled and exported to a corner store near you. If it could, you could pick up a weekend's worth of Rome along with your pint of milk and Snickers bar, and you'd probably never get to repainting the stairs, doing the laundry, or watching that new video release. Instead you'd be gawking at St. Peter's, ogling the Temple of Vesta, d...

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In 1995 Gopnik was offered the plush assignment of writing the "Paris Journals" for the New Yorker. He spent five years in Paris with his wife, Martha, and son, Luke, writing dispatches now collected here along with previously unpublished journal entries. A self-described "comic-sentimental essayist," Gopnik chose the romance of Paris in its particulars as his ...

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Eyewitness Travel Guides are the original illustrated travel guidebooks-and they're still the best. Since 1993, the Eyewitness brand has established itself as one of the industry leaders, with sales of more than 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Featuring more than 70 worldwide destinations, new titles are being added to the best-selling Eyewitness Travel Gu...

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Joel Meyrowitz is one of the world's best-known and best-selling photographers; his Cape Light has become a color photography classic with 100,000 copies sold.

The Tuscan countryside is among the most well-loved on earth, for its beauty, its natural bounty, its magnificent light. Award-winning photographer Joel Meyerowitz and novelist/playwr...

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In their first adventure as Master Librarians, Jack and Annie go to Pompeii to bring back an ancient story that is in danger of being lost forever. But before they can find it, the town's volcano erupts in a mighty explosion. --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.

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You'd be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: Ireland. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you'll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, detailed neighborhood maps with a street-finder index, and even historical timelines. Broken into ...

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Jack and Annie are off to ancient Greece, where they race against time to witness the very first Olympic Games! Illustrated.

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