Search Results for ‘Italy’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 48 matches found
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| Author: | Brian Payton |
| Publisher: | Old Street Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 154676 |
| Availability: | Special order. Order by email, weborders@stanfords.co.uk |
Bears are a symbol of the health of an ecosystem - and the global population is dwindling to the point where only eight different species remain. These creatures have long fascinated us and their influence...
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber |
| Catalogue number: | 155983 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
A book that takes the reader through Italy's history to trace the origins of today's problems. Made up of ten essays that cover various aspects of everyday life and culture, Tobias explores the complexities...
| Author: | Norman Lewis |
| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 116256 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The Honoured Society describes how the US army returned the Mafia to power in 1944, after Mussolini came close to destroying them.
It looks at the Mafia in their homeland - how in attempting to preserve...
| Author: | E. M. Forster |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 156758 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" is E.M. Forster's classic novel about the seductive power of Italy & the powerful clash between Italian & Edwardian English values. It is amongst the greatest twentieth...
| Author: | Henry James |
| Series: | Stanfords Travel Classics |
| Publisher: | JB Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 171881 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Henry James was a renowned observer of European culture, in both his fiction and in his life, and none so more is this apparent than in “Italian Hours”. James had a particular affection for Italy, visiting...
| Author: | Matthew Fort |
| Publisher: | Fourth Estate |
| Catalogue number: | 132557 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In an epic scooter trip from the South to the North of Italy, award-winning food writer Matthew Fort explores the local gastronomy, culinary culture and tumultuous history of a country.
Taking as his...
| Author: | Umberto Eco |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 137460 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Umberto Eco’s modern classic The Name of the Rose”takes place at a truly transcendental time in world history, when mankind was on the verge of ideas and discoveries that would violently throw it into...
| Author: | Francesco Da Mosto |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Catalogue number: | 146130 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Francesco’s Italy” takes the form of a journey, one that encompasses Italian culture both past and present.
From Venice, his birthplace and home, Francesco travels southwards to the Sicilian capital...
| Author: | Charles Dickens |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 67642 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
| Author: | John Dickie |
| Publisher: | Sceptre |
| Catalogue number: | 166082 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Delizia!” is the epic history of the Italians and their food. Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well? The advertising industry tells us the answer lies in the vineyards...
| Author: | Anne Calcagno |
| Publisher: | Travelers' Tales |
| Catalogue number: | 100780 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
About this series
Based upon the idea that the best advice is the advice of fellow travellers this series of books collects together writings from various authors. Some are well known, others are just...
| Author: | Tim Moore |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 105838 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Financed by a bet with a Yeovil linen draper, court jester Thomas Coryate's 1608 journey to Venice and back was an unlikely template for the Grand Tour.
Almost four hundred years later, Tim Moore put...
| Author: | Vida Adamoli |
| Publisher: | Summersdale Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 138282 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Twenty years of La Bella Vita, in the insular community of Torre Saracena. High drama on a small stage.
| Author: | Peter Francis Browne |
| Publisher: | Summersdale Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 100339 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Almost 100 years later, Browne follows in Hilaire Belloc's footsteps, as recounted in A Path to Rome, and walks from Toul in France to the Italian capital, encountering as many changes as similarities...
| Author: | Henry James |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 46451 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In these essays on travels in Italy written from 1872 to 1909, Henry James explores art and religion, political shifts and cultural revolutions, and the nature of travel itself.
James's enthusiastic...
Francesco's Mediterranean Voyage
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Catalogue number: | 165335 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In “Francesco’s Mediterranean Voyage”, the celebrated and much-loved tevelvision presenter & author Francesco da Mosto takes a trip into the rich history of the Mediterranean. In the wake of his ancestor...
| Author: | Tim Parks |
| Publisher: | Secker & Warburg |
| Catalogue number: | 112239 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
After twenty years in Italy, Parks decides to explore the country in a different way: he follows for a whole year Hellas Verona, the Verona football club. The result is a highly personal account of...
| Series: | Blue Guides |
| Publisher: | Blue Guides |
| Catalogue number: | 181036 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Venice Blue Guide Literary Companion is a pocket sized anthology of extracts from writings by the poets, novelists, playwrights, historians, travellers and socialites who have visited Venice down the...
| Author: | Frances Mayes |
| Publisher: | Bantam |
| Catalogue number: | 87426 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In this book the author, now feeling firmly established in her Tuscan home, begins to extend her travels deeper into Tuscany and introduces us to the joys of gardening, wine-making and Primavera. Mayes...
In the Shadow of Vesuvius - A Cultural History of Naples
| Author: | Jordan Lancaster |
| Publisher: | I B Tauris |
| Catalogue number: | 170214 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
In the Shadow of Vesuvius is a cultural history of Naples by Jordan Lancaster that offers a sparkling portrait of the city for those interested in looking behind the scenes and beneath the surface.
Naples...
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