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These 4 items are available for $66, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXITL525)

Insight Guide Southern Italy  •  Roger Williams GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 381 PAGES A colorful guide to the culture, history and attractions of Italy south of Rome, featuring hundreds of photographs and excellent local and regional maps. (ITL458, $23.95)
The Ancient Mediterranean  •  Michael Grant CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1990 •  PAPER  • 374 PAGES Grant, a well known classical scholar, draws on archaeology, geography, art, and economics to paint a vivid picture of ancient cultures, from prehistory through the Roman Imperium, and their influence on western civilization. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, and 19 maps of the region. (MED10, $18.00)
Italian Days  •  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1998 •  PAPER  • 479 PAGES • FAVORITE A literary celebration, portrait and guide to Italy and the Italians. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison writes with warmth and depth of her journey from Milan south to Calabria in this sprightly account. It's one of our favorite books about place. (ITL02, $15.00)
Puglia Map  •  Touring Club Italiano MAP The locals' map of Puglia, at a scale of 1:200,000. (ITL425, $12.95)

Campania Region Map  •  Touring Club Italiano    •  A colorful map of Campania, including Naples and the Amalfi Coast. (ITL116, $12.95)
Blue Guide Southern Italy  •  Paul Blanchard   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to Southern Italy and especially its archaeology, history and culture. With maps and site plans. Blanchard, a popular tour guide, is also the author of the Blue Guide to Northern Italy. (ITL257, $34.95)
National Geographic Traveler Naples And Southern Italy  •  Tim Jepson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A guidebook to the region, published by National Geographic in their attractive, visual style. The guide features many photographs, maps and good information on history, nature, culture and travel. (ITL802, $21.95)
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)
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)
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, $15.95)
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)
Christ Stopped at Eboli, The Story of a Year  •  Carlo Levi  •  Frances Frenaye   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An affecting memoir of southern Italy, originally published in 1947, it stems from the author's forced relocation to the region as punishment for anti-fascist political activity. (ITL09, $14.00)
Italian Journey, 1786-1788  •  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  •  W.H. Auden  •  Elizabeth Meyer   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The journals and letters from Goethe's 'grand tour' of southern Italy as translated by W.H. Auden. In addition to much musing on philosophy and art, it includes some wonderful writing on the Italian landscape. (ITL144, $17.00)
On the Shores of the Mediterranean  •  Eric Newby   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A sparkling observer and famously entertaining, Newby tackles the Mediterranean in this merry travelogue, finding himself in North Africa, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cairo and Jerusalem. (MED25, $14.95)
Seasons in Basilicata, A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village  •  David Yeadon   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This warm-spirited account of a year in the village of Aliano in Italy's rural south. Yeadon finds an altogether different place than that encountered by Carols Levi (Christ Stopped in Eboli) in 1935. (ITL585, $14.95)
Stolen Figs, And Other Adventures in Calabria  •  Mark Rotella   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A warmly told, refreshingly candid account of travels and adventures in the south of Italy from the grandson of a Calabrian. (ITL465, $15.00)
Torregreca: Life, Death and Miracles  •  Ann Cornelisen  •  Frances Mayes   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An absorbing and candid memoir of life in an impoverished region south of Naples circa 1959. First published in 1969, the book is a classic portrait of the mountainous villages of Basilicata. (ITL460, $16.00)
Casa Rossa  •  Francesca Marciano   • LITERATURE  •  A vivid novel following the lives of a mother, daughter, and granddaughter from Puglia over the course of the 20th century, opening as the narrator prepares to sell Casa Rossa, the family farm. (ITL534, $14.95)
Italy in Mind  •  Alice Powers   • LITERATURE  •  A terrific collection of some of the best literary writing on Italy, including pieces by Melville, Lawrence, Henry James, Mary McCarthy and many others. (ITL39, $14.95)
The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story  •  Horace Walpole   • LITERATURE  •  First published in 1764, Walpole's classic Gothic novel takes place in and around the 15th-century castle on the Adriatic. (ITL631, $8.95)