Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
$30.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
Calabria. A dramatic peninsula of rugged mountains and windswept coastlines facing Sicily - 'the most beautiful kilometre in Italy' - wrote Gabriele d'Annunzio of its coastline. Though steeped in a rich and ancient past, Calabria had been lost from view when Norman Douglas visited in the early 1900s. Lo ...Show more
Italian Journeys: From Venice to Naples and Beyond by William Dean Howells
$28.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
When Abraham Lincoln appointed William Dean Howells Consul to Venice, the young writer embarked on a journey that would leave an indelible impression on his life and work. Howells lived in Italy for four years, from 1861, during the pivotal and tumultuous period of Italian reunification. Italian Journey ...Show more
Ghosts of the Belle Epoque - The History of the Grand Hotel, Palermo by Andrew Edwards
$43.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Murder, music and the mafia in Sicily's Grand Hotel. The Grand Hotel et des Palmes is an icon of Palermo life. Its rooms and public spaces have witnessed the events that have shaped twentieth century Sicily, everything from the suicide of poets to political intrigues and clandestine mafia meetings. T ...Show more
Sicily - Island of Beauty and Conflict by Jeremy Dummett
$43.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
This book delves into the fascinating and diverse history and culture of Sicily. With settlers from early tribes to the Greeks and Romans, through the Arabs, Normans, French, Spanish and finally Italians, the island's culture has been changed dramatically by each of the foreign powers. In this book, Je ...Show more
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
$28.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Enjoy an irresistible feast of humour and discover the joys of French rural living with Peter Mayle's bestselling, much-loved account of "A Year In Provence". Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing ca ...Show more
D. H. Lawrence and Italy by D. H. Lawrence
$34.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. "Twilight in Italy" is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. I ...Show more
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
$28.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain | Series: Classics Ser.
An account of Charles Dickens's experiences in Italy in which he portrays a nation of great contrasts: between grandiose buildings and squalid poverty, and between past and present. Combining travelogue with social commentary, this book is depicts an exciting and disquieting journey.
Italy in Mind by Alice Powers
$40.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Two centuries of writers--including Harold Brodkey, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Calvin Trillin, Michael Ondaatje, Lawrence Durrell, Edith Wharton, and others--celebrate their love of Italy in an anthology of short stories, essays, poetry, journals, letters, and novel excerpts. Origina
Twentieth Century Paris - 1900-1950: a Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-José Gransard
$43.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain | Series: Literary Guides for Travellers Ser.
Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travelers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950.Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to contribute to flourishing avant-garde movements, as the Left ...Show more
Travels in the South of France by Stendhal
$26.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Published posthumously in 1830, Stendhal's travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities such as Bordeaux, Toulouse and Marseilles, peppered with numerous personal digressions, anecdotes and cultural musings.
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum by James Gardner
$45.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
Secondhand. A meticulously crafted, sparkling history of the legendary museum in Paris. Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few, if any, are aware of the remarkable history of that location and of the bu ...Show more
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia - Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on) by Chris Stewart
$25.00 NZD
Category: Italy- France-Spain
A special anniversary edition with a new chapter 25 years on.Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our friend, the some-time Genesis drummer Chris Stewart, bring his sunlit stories of life on a Spanish mountain farm to print. Ever the optimist, Chris hoped to earn enough money to buy a se ...Show more