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Venices
by Paul Morand Publisher Comments Paul Morand's delightful and typically unconventional autobiography is far from being yet another account of a writer's life and times; instead it is an impressionistic, highly poetic evocation of certain scenes among his rich and varied encounters and...
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Things You Get for Free
by Michael Mcgirr Publisher Comments Things You Get for Free is a travelogue rich with charm and wisdom and sparkling with its author's singular wit. As a priest, Michael McGirr decides to take his charming and inimitable mum on the honeymoon she and her late husband never got around to...
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In Tuscany
by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, landscapes, and art. In Tuscany celebrates the abundant...
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A Traveller's Companion to Prague (Traveller's Companion To...)
by Jan Kaplan Publisher Comments The turbulent history of "The City of a Hundred Spires" is revealed through eyewitness accounts from medieval to modern times. Czech-born Jan Kaplan is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and a notable Prague historian....
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An Accidental Autobiography
by Barbara Gr Harrison Publisher Comments so richly detailed, and palpable with color, fabric and texture, that they are closer to the visual arts than to conventional prose narrative-The New York Times. With chapters arranged alphabetically, with one memory leading to another, An Accidental...
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Viva Mallorca!: One Mallorcan Autumn
by Peter Kerr Publisher Comments Autumn has arrived for Peter Kerr and his family on their fruit farm on the island of Mallorca. The year's third season, "winter's spring," finds Peter under the sharp eye of his long-suffering wife, Ellie, struggling to shake off the relaxed Spanish...
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La Bella Vita: Daily Inspiration from Italy
by Helen Ruchti Synopsis As one of the world's top travel destinations, Italy charms visitors with the beauty of its countryside and people, the richness of its cuisine and wines, and the vastness of its history and culture. Helen Ruchti, a missionary in Rome for 25 years, has...
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Feeding Frenzy: Across Europe in Search of the Perfect Meal
by Stuart Stevens Publisher Comments Stuart Stevens and ex-model Rat Kelly share two interests: exercise and eating. When Rat suggests taking their eating to a new level by touring all the three-star restaurants of Europe, Stuart eagerly agrees. What follows is nothing less than gustatory...
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In the Merde for Love
by Stephen Clarke Publisher Comments The latest episode in Stephen Clarke’s almost-true account of his adventures as an expat in France is just as winning as the first. This “anti-Mayle” will have readers chortling over their croissants and café au lait while Paul...
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Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World
by Geoffrey Moorhouse Publisher Comments Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A sanctuary to birds and seals today, for over six hundred years during the middle ages it was a center for a...
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A House in Corfu: A Family's Sojourn in Greece
by Emma Tennant Publisher Comments This book is the story of Emma Tennant's parent's house, Rovinia, set above the bay in Corfu where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked and found by Nausicaa, daughter of King Alcinous. It is also the story of people like Maria, a miraculous cook and...
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In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century
by Geert Mak Powells.com Staff Pick What a thoughtful, delightful book. We go from one end of Europe to the other, traveling in time and space. It's like a tour of Europe with a beloved history professor and, therefore, it's a "must read" for Americans who want to understand the current...
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Duende
by Jason Webster Publisher Comments Includes discography (p. [327]-328)....
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A Thousand Bells at Noon: A Roman's Guide to the Secrets and Pleasures of His Native City
by G Franco Romagnoli Synopsis An expatriate Roman vividly brings to life his native city, in this stunning travel guide that captures all of Rome's charms and contradictions, from the beautiful churches and palazzos to the small apartments and crowded streets....
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Spain from a Backpack (Europe from a Backpack)
by Mark Pearson Publisher Comments Better than guidebooks, these first-person accounts paint vivid pictures of a traveler's experience in Spain. Like familiar music and favorite scents, they’ll awaken a taste for adventure in those who have yet to travel, and bring back memories for...
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The Magic of Provence: Pleasures of Southern France
by Yvone Lenard Publisher Comments A French-American rediscovers her homeland and transports readers to an enchanted world in which she and her husband build their dream house in Provence. Lenard lends her insight into the subtleties of her native culture and captures the sights, sounds...
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Italian Education
by Tim Parks Publisher Comments Tim Parks' first bestseller, Italian Neighbors, chronicled his initiation into Italian society and cultural life. Reviewers everywhere hailed it as a bravissimo performance. Now he turns to his children -- born and bred in Italy -- and their milieu in a...
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The Grand Tour
by Tim Moore Publisher Comments The tradition of the Grand Tour was started in 1608 by an intrepid but down-at-the-heels English courtier named Thomas Coryate, who walked across Europe, miraculously managed to return home in one piece, and wrote a book about his bawdy misadventures...
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Pasquale's Nose
by Michael Rips Synopsis This hilarious and quirky travel memoir and autobiography follows a criminal litigator who runs away to a small Etruscan village with his wife and new baby and finds a community of the most eccentric people he's ever met....
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I'll Know It When I See It: A Daughter's Search for Home in Ireland
by Alice Carey Publisher Comments As a young girl, Alice Carey realized that "home" can mean different things. The only child of poor Irish immigrants, her isolated childhood in a cold-water flat in Queens is transformed when her mother becomes the maid to legendary Broadway producer...
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