Spydus Search Results - Subject: Italy -- Description and travel (Keywords)

A curious absence of chickens : a journal of life, food and recipes from Puglia / Sophie Grigson.

'Puglia is a region I want to get to know intimately, to understand culture, life, history and geography, reflecting through the prism of the food that's put on the tables of locals and tourists, too. I'm reminded of my 20-year old self, scribbling in notebooks as I first travelled through Italy's south, only this time I'm back to stay'. After her children grew up and left home, Sophie Grigson found herself living alone. About to turn 60, she took the decision to sell her house and most of her belongings, to pack up her car and to drive to Puglia on her own to start a new life. In a part of Italy where she didn't know anyone, having last visited the region 40 years ago, this narrative book of food writing, stories and recipes brings to life the region, its food and the local characters that she meets along the way.
Author: Grigson, Sophie
Published: London : Headline Home, 2021.
312 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Drymen Library - (Stirling Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 641.5945 - Available - 38048021721266
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Always Italy : an illustrated grand tour

The world's most beloved expert on la dolce vita takes readers along on the ultimate insider's tour across all 20 of Italy's iconic regions.
Author: Mayes, Frances
Published: Washington, D.C : National Geographic,
416 pages ;

Outreach Services - (Stirling Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 914.5049 - Available - 38048021628677

To Venice with love : a midlife adventure / Philip Gwynne Jones.

Philip and Caroline Jones, a middle-aged couple living in Edinburgh, found themselves facing redundancy and an uncertain future. Until they received some advice from a complete stranger in a pub. Their response was to sell everything in order to move to Venice, in search of a better, simpler life. They were wrong about the 'simpler' bit. 'To Venice With Love' recounts how they arrived in Venice with ten pieces of luggage, no job, no friends and no long-term place to stay.
Author: Jones, Philip Gwynne, 1966-
Published: London : Constable, 2019.
xii, 291 pages : maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

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Alone time : four seasons, four cities and the pleasures of solitude / Stephanie Rosenbloom.

Travelling with friends and family is usually thought of as a privilege. In theory, anyway. In practice, it's more often about debating which sights to see, panicking over diminishing phone batteries and bickering over what to eat. Not much joy in that. But alone you can do as you please. You can wander markets, relish silence, go to a park. Go to Paris. Why not? In 'Alone Time', New York Times travel columnist Stephanie Rosenbloom travels alone in four seasons to four remarkable cities - Paris, Istanbul, Florence and New York - exploring the sensory experience of solitude. Along the way she illuminates the psychological arguments for alone time, revealing that whether you recognise it or not, it's good to be alone now and then.
Author: Rosenbloom, Stephanie
Published: London : Bantam Press, 2018.
272 pages ; 23 cm

Dunblane Library - (Stirling Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 910.409 - Available - 38048021482489

Summer in the islands : an Italian odyssey / Matthew Fort.

Imagine spending a carefree summer in the Italian sun, beachcombing, eating and drinking with abandon, drifting without restraint from island to island, from port to port. 'Summer in the Islands' is the record of Matthew Fort doing just that. Traveling by Vespa and by ferry, Fort tours the islands at his leisure. He takes us to Elba, where Napoleon was once imprisoned; to Salina, famous for its capers, just as Pantelleria is famous for its dessert wine; to Pianosa, where dangerous Mafia bosses were kept and which Joseph Heller used as the setting for Catch-22; to Capri, where Maxim Gorky ran a school for revolutionaries which was visited by Lenin and Stalin - to all of Italy's 52 islands which he has never written about before.
Author: Fort, Matthew
Published: London : Unbound, 2017.
xv, 325 pages : map (black and white) ; 23 cm

Mobile Library - (Stirling Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 914.581 - Available - 38048021362236

A Florence diary / Diana Athill.

In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, Athill recorded her observations and adventures - eating with (and paid for by) the hopeful men they meet on their travels, admiring architectural sights, sampling delicious pastries, eking out their budget and getting into scrapes.
Author: Athill, Diana
Published: London : Granta, 2016.
64 pages ; 18 cm

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Head over heel : seduced by Southern Italy / Chris Harrison.

This is Chris Harrison's hilarious and captivating story of falling in love with both bella Daniela and la bella Italia, leaving his Australian life for her sun-drenched Italian home and la dolce vita.
Author: Harrison, Chris, 1971 December 14-
Published: London : Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2016.
374 pages ; 20 cm.

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Journey through Italy / Anita Ganeri

This volume offers a look at the landscape, culture and people of Italy, from the watery world of Venice, through sunny Sicily to the classical splendour of Rome.
Author: Ganeri, Anita, 1961-
Published: London : Franklin Watts, 2015.
32 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 28 cm

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Like a tramp, like a pilgrim : on foot, across Europe to Rome / Harry Bucknall.

Like Continuum's bestselling 'A Pilgrim in Spain' by Christopher Howse, Harry Bucknall's book concerns a long journey on foot from St Paul's to St Peter's in Rome (1300 miles). Though not as well known as the Road to Compostella, this route, known as the Via Francigena, has been celebrated for centuries.
Author: Bucknall, Harry
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
256 pages ; 22 cm

Drymen Library - (Stirling Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 263.0424 - Available - 38048021020016

A tour of Mont Blanc and other circuitous adventures in Italy, France and Switzerland / David Le Vay.

In a muddy field somewhere in Cornwall on New Year's Day, two men make a pact to tackle Europe's highest mountain. Call it a mid-life crisis, with not only his daughter about to leave for university but also the rapidly approaching prospect of his fiftieth birthday to consider: walking 170 kilometres across a mountain range seems the perfect antidote. Humorous, reflective and poignant, this is the story of a journey around one of the world's most iconic mountains, through an area that is full to bursting with stories to remember.
Author: Le Vay, David
Published: Chichester : Summersdale, 2014.
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Summersdale, [2014]
Published: ©2014
263 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm

Central Library - (Stirling Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 796.510944 - Onloan - Due: 29 May 2024 - 38048021025130

Head over heel [cd talking book] / Chris Harrison.

This is Chris Harrison's hilarious and captivating story of falling in love with both bella Daniela and la bella Italia, leaving his Australian life for her sun-drenched Italian home and la dolce vita.
Author: Harrison, Chris, 1971 Dec. 14-
Unabridged ed.
Published: Rearsby : Clipper Audio, 2011.
13 compact discs (14 hr. 25 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

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Vroom by the sea : the sunny parts of Italy on a bright orange Vespa / Peter Moore.

Best-selling writer and traveller, Peter Moore, decides to go on an adventure through Sicily, Sardinia and the Amalfi Coast as a last fling before the onset of fatherhood. Riding his bright orange Vespa, Marcello, he meets a multitude of interesting characters and discovers a side of Italy that tourists rarely see.
Author: Moore, Peter, 1962-
Published: Chichester : Summersdale, 2009.
318 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.

Dunblane Library - (Stirling Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 914.50493 - Available - 38048020820226

La bella figura : an insider's guide to the Italian mind / Beppe Severgnini ; translated by Giles Watson.

An tour of modern Italy that takes you behind the face it puts on for visitors and uncovers the far more complex, paradoxical true self. Alongside the historic cities and glorious countryside, there'll be stops at the places where the Italians reveal themselves in all their authentic glory: the airport, the motorway and the living room.
Author: Severgnini, Beppe
Published: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2008.
xiv, 269 p. ; 20 cm.

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The city of falling angels / John Berendt.

Berendt provides a tour behind the exquisite façade of the world's most beautiful historic city. With his background in journalism, Berendt is perfectly poised to gain access to private and unapproachable people, and persuade them to talk frankly to him.
Author: Berendt, John, 1939-
Large print ed.
Published: Leicester : W.F. Howes : Clipper, 2006.
515 p. ; 24 cm.

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Fleeting Rome / Carlo Levi ; edited by Gigliola De Donato ; introduction by Giulio Ferroni.

Carlo Levi has depicted Rome at the height of its optimism & vitality, the heady days of postwar 'La Dolce Vita'. His descriptions bring to life the daily lives of the city's ordinary citizens, at work & at play.
Author: Levi, Carlo, 1902-1975
Published: Chichester : Wiley, 2005.
200 p.

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Elements of Italy / edited and introduced by Lisa St Aubin De Terán.

Published: London : Virago, 2001.
vii, 230 p. ; 23 cm.

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Sea and Sardinia / D. H. Lawrence ; edited by Mara Kalnins ; with an introduction and notes by Jill Franks.

Written after the First World War when he was living in Italy, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. Like his other travel writings, it is also an enquiry into the political and social values of the era.
Author: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930
Published: London : Penguin, 1999.
xxxi, 213p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Penguin twentieth-century classics

Central Library - (Stirling Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 914.59 - Available - 38048021849638