Italy Out of Hand: A Capricious Tour
10 best books like Italy Out of Hand: A Capricious Tour (Barbara Hodgson): Far Flung and Well Fed: The Food Writing of R.W. Apple, Jr., Julia and the Art of Practical Travel, Expat: Women's True Tales of Life Abroad, 1936... On the Continent, Gardens of Awe and Folly: A Traveler's Journal on the Meaning of Life and Gardening, Explorers' Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure (Artist Sketchbook, Drawing Book for Adults and Kids, Exploration Sketchbook), The Prairie Traveler, Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body, Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide, Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of Fifty Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff
Far Flung and Well Fed: The Food Writing of R.W. Apple, Jr.
| Author | R.W. Apple |
| ISBN | 0312325770 |
Johnny Apple’s essays have to be the ultimate chairside or bedside reading for foodies. No one should sit down and plow through this whole book. The essays should be savored one at a time, and I love having a nice read with a glass of wine when the day is winding down.
It helps that Apple is a fabulous...
Julia and the Art of Practical Travel
| Author | Lesley M.M. Blume |
| ISBN | 0385752822 |
When her grandmother dies and the once-majestic family estate is sold, eleven-year-old Julia Lancaster and her aunt Constance must take to the road to find Julia’s long-lost mother. They bring with them only the most practical travel things—silver candlestick holders, a few Oriental carpets,...
| Author | Christina Henry De Tessan |
| ISBN | 1580050700 |
For generations, literary figures from Ernest Hemingway to Frances Mayes have fueled our fantasies about the romance of expatriate life. But it’s one thing to dream about living abroad and quite another to actually do it. In Expat a diverse group of women explores in vivid detail how the reality of...
| Author | Fodor's Travel Publications Inc. |
| ISBN | 0307928667 |
Three years before the start of WWII, Eugene Fodor published his first guidebook, 1936–-On the Continent–The Entertaining Travel Annual. Fodor's goal was to create a fun-to-read, annually updated guidebook about Europe that emphasized the people and culture of a country--a radical change...
| Author | Vivian Swift |
| ISBN | 1632860279 |
God I love Vivian Swift’s books. They are enchanting. Later, just a few hours after finishing it, I was staring into a garden around City Hall and the Tweed Courthouse. It was night and fireflies came out. I never see fireflies, I was so thrilled, and it was all so magical and lovely and I thought, I’m...
| Author | Huw Lewis-Jones |
| ISBN | 1452158274 |
The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by...
| Author | Randolph Barnes Marcy |
| ISBN | 0918222893 |
This was good old book. It was interesting to realize that it was probably the only book available to help new pioneers cross the plains. They would have to rely on it and read it and follow it to get across rivers, deal with Indians and know what to do in emergencies in the middle of the unknown world of the...
Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body
| Author | Francesca Gould |
| ISBN | 1585426458 |
Fascinating...Unbelievable...Gross! These are just a few of the responses readers will hear when they impress their friends with facts from the quirky new book of body trivia, Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers & Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body by Francesca Gould. This collection...
Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide
| Author | Karen Elizabeth Gordon |
| ISBN | 0811809692 |
From the author of The Transitive Vampire, comes an invitation to a strangely illuminated City of Light, Paris out of Hand. This seductively beautiful replica of a 19th-century travel book—replete with illustrations of sights you will never see and maps that may plummet you into a different era—guides...
Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers: Portraits of Fifty Famous Folks & All Their Weird Stuff
| Author | James Gulliver Hancock |
| ISBN | 1452114560 |
This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating trivia of their lives. Artist James Gulliver Hancock depicts historical icons in quirky annotated portraits surrounded by their associated possessions, baggage, and foibles....
| Author | Tim Cahill |
| ISBN | 0375713298 |
In his latest collection of death-defying exploits and far-flung travels, Outside Magazine editor Tim Cahill visits the side of an active volcano in Ecuador, the Saharan salt mines and the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. He also ventures to find a Caspian tiger in Turkey and giant...
Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town
| Author | Michael Rips |
| ISBN | 0316748641 |
This book is a quick read, only 200 pages but full of amusing anecdotes and Italian eccentrics, an interesting mix of historical fact and myth, as well as the author's reflections on life in a small hilltop town called Sutri.
Sutri is in the Tuscia, where I live, so the book was of particular interest....
| Author | Tobias Jones |
| ISBN | 0865477248 |
In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different country: one besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia. The Dark Heart of Italy is Jones's account of his four-year...
The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy
| Author | Rachel Cusk |
| ISBN | 0374184038 |
Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future. The award-winning writer Rachel Cusk describes a three-month journey around the Italy of Raphael and...
Sara Midda's South of France: A Sketchbook
| Author | Sara Midda |
| ISBN | 0894807633 |
A wondrous sketchbook from a year spent in the south of France—an artist's personal journal carried everywhere and crammed with drawings and notions and thoughts surprising and whimsical.
Delicate watercolors shine like jewels set into each page of this exquisite book. In tones of sea...
An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks--who was described in a recent review as “one of the best living writers of English”--has delighted audiences around the world with his finely observed writings on all aspects of Italian life and customs. This volume contains a selection...
Impressions of Paris: An Artist's Sketchbook
| Author | Cat Seto |
| ISBN | 0062493078 |
Artist Cat Seto, founder of the acclaimed Ferme à Papier brand, introduces you to the City of Light as never before in this distinctive volume—both a visual feast and celebration of the artistic process—filled with lavish illustrations and descriptive meditations that capture the quotidian...
| Author | Rob Ryan |
| ISBN | 1444723413 |
This book was a beautiful read. I managed to read this in a short gap i had Sunday morning before i left for work and i loved not only the story but how the art style was presented and how it was visually.
The story of this book is about two little birds expecting a baby bird and they get told very many...
| Author | Florent Chavouet |
| ISBN | 2809702136 |
Un recueil de croquis pris sur le vif, durant le séjour de l'auteur sur l'une des nombreuses îles de l'archipel japonais, Manabé Shima, au large d'Osaka. Aux portraits des autochtones sont jointes des annotations cocasses concernant la vie quotidienne sur l'île. Le dessin, aux crayons de couleurs...
The World on a Plate: 40 Cuisines, 100 Recipes, and the Stories Behind Them
| Author | Mina Holland |
| ISBN | 0143127659 |
Eat your way around the world without leaving your home in this mouthwatering cultural history of 100 classic dishes.
Best Culinary Travel Book (U.K.), Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Finalist for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award
“When we eat, we travel.” So...
The Valley of Heaven and Hell - Cycling in the Shadow of Marie-Antoinette
Susie Kelly has already walked 900km solo from La Rochelle to Geneva (Best Foot Forward, pub. Bantam 2003) and driven the entire circumference of France (A Perfect Circle, pub. Bantam 2006), but cyclist she is not. By suggesting an electric bicycle to get her through the worst of the uphill slogs, her...
