Category: Travel

E.M. Forster observed, "One does not come to Italy for niceness. One comes for life". And there is life abounding in this rhapsodic, witty, and lushly atmospheric anthology, in which forty-one literary travelers train their sensibilities on various aspects of the Italian scene.Italy in Mind is Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, marveling at baroque Sicilian confections, and Mary McCarthy, celebrating Venice's threadbare dignity. It's Henry James's Isabel Archer, succumbing to the treacherous antiquities of Florence, and Ernest Hemingway's Frederic Henry, rowing across Lago Maggiore. It's the savage is...
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Let's Go 2007 France (LET'S GO FRANCE)

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Let's Go Publications : November 2006

Seller ID: 80837

ISBN-13: 9780312360924

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Revised and updated every year the 'Let's Go' series is researched by Harvard-Radcliffe students. Every book in the series is written with budget travellers in mind and the series covers a huge range of destinations worldwide.
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Living in Istanbul (Living In . . .)

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Flammarion : June 1994

Seller ID: 25135

ISBN-13: 9782080135636

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Istanbul has been the capital of Roman emperors, Byzantine despots, and Turkish sultans. Stretching along both sides of the Bosporus from the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea, it occupies one of the most extraordinary geographical locations on earth. Vestiges of the diverse cultures that have flourished here-- Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman-- survive in modern Istanbul, where different quarters are still divided by what the Byzantine poet Procopius once called a 'garland of waters.' In this superb volume, the authors reveal the unique lifestyle and hidden splendours of Istanbul, inciting ...
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Michelin Green Guide France (Michelin Green Guides) (English and French Edition)

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Michelin Travel Pubns : January 1838

Seller ID: 80839

ISBN-13: 9782067119383

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This addition to the acclaimed 'Green Guide' series provides travellers with a comprehensive guide to the cultural and natural highlights of France.
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Quebec: World Heritage City

Price: $15.95

Seller ID: 64486

ISBN-13: 9782921703840

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Reader's Digest Travel Guide North America : Westmount, Quebec

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association (Canada) : January 1996

Seller ID: 61739

ISBN-13: 9780888505194

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The silent traveller in Japan.

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Norton

Seller ID: 83342

ISBN: B007ETU4NS

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Time Out Andalucía (Time Out Guides)

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Time Out : November 2004

Seller ID: 66922

ISBN-13: 9781904978251

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For millennia southern Spain has been perceived as a promised land. From Phoenician traders to Moorish invaders to today's northern European occupiers of the Costa del Sol, this extraordinarily varied region has offered the lure of beaches and mountains, classic cities and cutesy villages, magnificent deserts, vast forests and fertile plains - and a balmy climate that is the envy of the rest of the continent. Time Out Andalucia presents the full picture of this country within a province, giving an insider's view of its cultural and natural riches, but not shrinking from telling it like it is w...
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Touring Britain and Ireland

Price: $9.95

Publisher: AA Publishing : June 1993

Seller ID: 76245

ISBN-13: 9780749507855

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Vienna: Sightseeing in 123 Colour Photos

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Verlag Dr. Alfred Hiller : January 2000

Seller ID: 79503

ISBN: B003X65PW6

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Treasures of Britain: A traveller's guide to the riches of Britain and Ireland

By: AA

Price: $19.95

Publisher: AA : 1972

Seller ID: 17432

ISBN: 281BQL1001020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

New York; Tour Book

By: AAA

Price: $7.95

Publisher: AAA

Seller ID: 26989

ISBN: 281BQL1001443

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Abel's Outback: Explorations and Misadventures on Six Continents, 1990-2000

By: Abel, Allen

Price: $12.50

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart : May 2001

Seller ID: 24421

ISBN-13: 9780771007064

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For many years, as news correspondent, television host, and journalist, Allen Abel has travelled to some of the world's most fascinating, remote, or newsworthy spots to bring back his stories - often offbeat, moving, perceptive, or humorous, but always wonderfully written. Now, in "Abel's Outback," he has drawn on his writing of the last decade. Here is a sampling of ten years of adventure on all six continents. Whether he is hunting for the wild platypus with an Australian forest ranger, boating up the Amazon with a descendant of Charles Darwin, journeying to catch a glimpse of remote Timbukt...
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