Travel & Leisure

ISBN: 9781900971133
Published by : Silphium Press
From Tripoli to the ancient ruins of Leptis Magna, from the slave markets to the farthest reaches of the Sahara: here is a mosaic of unknown places, handed down to us by the foreign visitors and travellers who experienced them fir... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856401677
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Le non guide
 “He didn’t want to leave. And to think that, before, he had been so fond of travel, but lacked the time and money! Now, he had both, but no desire. He had realized, however, that when in certain moods, one needs to react. He had to show himself t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856401691
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Le non guide
A travelogue covering symbolic locations in Trieste. From Porto Vecchio to the Hotel Balkan, from the Molo Audace to the Sant’Anna cemetery, a ten-stop journey in the city of Italo Svevo and Umberto Saba, an eternal borderland perpetually hovering... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859609483
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
English summary: This book offers ample research on commercial architecture from Renaissance Florence, including sections on mercantile space and architecture, as well as early modern Florentine industry. Each section includes its own bibli... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856401349
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Passaparola
English summary: I was seventeen when I first discovered Florence, with its Ponte Vecchio, Piazzale Michelangelo, the Franchi stadium, and the Fiorentina soccer team. It was love at first sight, one that I have never betrayed and that has n... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788856401585
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Passaparola
English description: Mola Giulio's biography of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, one of the most decorated and successful players ever, reads like a fresh drink of water, full of the footballer's prowess, finesse, style, and marvelous talent on the p... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859609520
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
English description: Postcards were invented in the middle of the nineteenth century as a form of abbreviated epistolary communication. The touristic areas of Vallombrosa and Saltino in Tuscany saw an extraordinary proliferation of card... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907975073
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Written by leading scholars in the field, this collection analyzes the notion of travel writing as a genre, while tracing significant examples of Mediterranean travel writing that return us to Ancient Greece, to Medieval pilgrimages, to Venetia... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781850588894
Published by : Stobart Davies Ltd
Walking in the Footsteps of Robin Hood roots out the places mentioned in traditional old tales and visits the locations that Robin and his men would have known. Walk through some of middle England's finest countryside on miles of well-marke... .... Learn More