Twenty years ago Frances Mayes, having ended a long marriage and begun a new relationship, was travelling in Italy and happened upon an abandoned, grand but dilapidated three-storey house called 'Bramasole' just outside the Tuscan hillside of Cortona.
In 1967 Eric and Wanda Newby fulfilled a long-cherished dream when they bought a run-down farmhouse in northeastern Tuscany, in the foothills of the Italian Alps. They were the first foreigners to live in the region. "A Small Place in Italy" describes how the house was restored with the help of their neighbors, a colorful cast of characters who quickly befriended the Newbys. With his characteristic wry humor and sharp eye for the quirks of human nature, Eric Newby paints an unforgettable picture of rural Italy and its people. The r... read more
This Wellington street directory is one of four street directories in a new series which is aimed to complement the "AA New Zealand Road Atlases" and the "AA New Zealand Road Map". The digital-based maps show features such as schools, libraries, Post Shops, street toilets and parking facilities.
A London guide to the total city experience, revealing where to sleep, eat, drink, shop, retreat, explore, or just hang out, in stimulating surroundings. Divided into two sections: "Street Wise" and "Style Traveller", readers are directed to places situated in seven specific neighbourhoods.
This book (for weddings and funerals) includes poets ranging from William Shakespeare to E.E. Cummings. Says Marsden, a well-known writer:
This guidebook includes a colour street-finder map of London and town-by-town information, with details of selected hotels and restaurants and briefings on history, art, pubs, and flora and fauna. Over 2,000 photographs, illustrations and maps Cutaways and floorplans of all the major sights Walks, scenic routes and thematic tours in England, Scotland and Wales Where to eat, where to stay, and how to get around
For all skill levels of enthusiast.
An unputdownable assortment of facts and quotes, anecdotes and tall tales about the history and mystery of international travel. No need to move from the comfort of your armchair in order to find out when the first passport was granted (in 1414!), in which country it is considered extremely rude to sit with the soles of your feet facing your companions, how to say hello in twenty different languages, which pilgrim route has a scallop shell as its symbol, how to master the Japanese art of packing a rucksack and which cities to avoid if you don
Scale: 1:430,000. Handy size New Zealand touring atlas with clear, easy-to-read cartography plus Lord of the Rings film locations sites, 103 detailed regional and city maps, over 600 motorhome and camping sites and hundreds of adventure-activity locations.
Although this novel (published four years before Grass won the Nobel Prize) ranges from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the following year\'s unification of Germany, the author\'s basic obsession is - through cryptic references and allusions - with the past two centuries of German history.