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Under the Tuscan Sun
Written by Frances Mayes
Travel - Essays & Travelogues | Broadway | Trade Paperback
August 2003 | $15.00 | 978-0-7679-1606-6 (0-7679-1606-9)
Now in paperback, the #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spirit of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence.
Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the... Read More
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On the Water
Written by Nathaniel Stone
Travel - United States - Northeast | Broadway | Trade Paperback
July 2003 | $19.00 | 978-0-7679-0842-9 (0-7679-0842-2)
“I take a stroke and lean back, gazing up into the jet skies, bejeweled by the moon and the galaxies of stars. The hull glides in silence and with such perfect balance as to report no motion. I sit up for another stroke, now looking down as the blades ignite swirling... Read More
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Ciao, America!
Written by Beppe Severgnini
Travel - Essays & Travelogues | Broadway | Trade Paperback
May 2003 | $12.95 | 978-0-7679-1236-5 (0-7679-1236-5)
In the wry but affectionate tradition of Bill Bryson, Ciao, America! is a delightful look at America through the eyes of a fiercely funny guest — one of Italy’s favorite authors who spent a year in Washington, D.C.
When Beppe Severgnini and his wife rented a creaky house in Georgetown they were... Read More
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Island Wise
Written by Janis Frawley-Holler
Travel | Broadway | Trade Paperback
March 2003 | $12.95 | 978-0-7679-1204-4 (0-7679-1204-7)
Many of us long to escape the dreariness of our daily lives for the balmy weather, fresh air, and bright sunshine of the world’s islands—those almost magical places whose distance from the mainland has the power to distance us from our normal cares. Island Wise transports you to these far-off shores... Read More
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On Rue Tatin
Written by Susan Herrmann Loomis
Biography & Autobiography | Broadway | Trade Paperback
April 2002 | $14.95 | 978-0-7679-0455-1 (0-7679-0455-9)
Susan Loomis arrived in Paris twenty years ago with little more than a student loan and the contents of a suitcase to sustain her. But what
began then as an apprenticeship at La Varenne École de Cuisine evolved into a lifelong immersion in French cuisine and culture, culminating in permanent residency... Read More
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Spanish Lessons
Written by Derek Lambert
Travel - Essays & Travelogues | Broadway | Trade Paperback
July 2001 | $19.00 | 978-0-7679-0416-2 (0-7679-0416-8)
In the shrewd, comical spirit of Peter Mayle and Bill Bryson, Derek Lambert discovers the charms and idiosyncrasies of Spain as he experiences the rewards and frustrations of beginning a new life there. [set as a headline]
As Lambert and his wife set about restoring their moldering casita on Spain’s Mediterranean Costa... Read More
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In a Sunburned Country
Written by Bill Bryson
Travel - United States | Broadway | Trade Paperback
May 2001 | $14.95 | 978-0-7679-0386-8 (0-7679-0386-2)
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the... Read More
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The Magic of Provence
Written by Yvone Lenard
Travel - Europe - France; Biography & Autobiography | Broadway | Trade Paperback
May 2001 | $14.00 | 978-0-7679-0682-1 (0-7679-0682-9)
When Yvone Lenard returned to her native France and purchased a house in a hilltop village of Provence, an enchanted world of food, wines, and unusual adventures–including chicken rustling, flirtatious advances from neighbors, and a séance–opened up before her. This is her account of the spell cast on her by Provence... Read More
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On Mexican Time
Written by Tony Cohan
Travel - Essays & Travelogues | Broadway | Trade Paperback
January 2001 | $14.95 | 978-0-7679-0319-6 (0-7679-0319-6)
An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the... Read More
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In Tuscany
Written by Frances Mayes
Travel - Pictorials | Broadway | Hardcover
October 2000 | $35.00 | 978-0-7679-0535-0 (0-7679-0535-0)
From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, landscapes, and art. In Tuscany celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at home, at festivals... Read More
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Written by Bill Bryson
Biography & Autobiography | Broadway | Trade Paperback
June 2000 | $14.95 | 978-0-7679-0382-0 (0-7679-0382-X)
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were... Read More
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The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
Written by Joe McGinniss
Travel - Essays & Travelogues | Broadway | Trade Paperback
June 2000 | $15.95 | 978-0-7679-0599-2 (0-7679-0599-7)
Master storyteller Joe McGinniss travels to Italy to cover the unlikely success of a ragtag minor league soccer team--and delivers a brilliant and utterly unforgettable story of life in an off-the-beaten-track Italian village.
When Joe McGinniss sets out for the remote Italian village of Castel di Sangro one summer, he merely intends... Read More
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Bella Tuscany
Written by Frances Mayes
Travel - Europe - Italy | Broadway | Trade Paperback
April 2000 | $15.00 | 978-0-7679-0284-7 (0-7679-0284-X)
Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites us back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.
A companion volume to Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany is Frances Mayes's passionate... Read More
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North to the Night
Written by Alvah Simon
Travel - Polar Regions | Broadway | Trade Paperback
September 1999 | $14.95 | 978-0-7679-0446-9 (0-7679-0446-X)
In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on his boat, frozen in ice 100 miles from the... Read More
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A Walk in the Woods
Written by Bill Bryson
Travel - United States | Broadway | Trade Paperback
May 1999 | $14.95 | 978-0-7679-0252-6 (0-7679-0252-1)
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill... Read More
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Under the Tuscan Sun
Written by Frances Mayes
Travel - Essays & Travelogues | Broadway | Trade Paperback
September 1997 | $15.00 | 978-0-7679-0038-6 (0-7679-0038-3)
Now in paperback, the #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spirit of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence.
Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the... Read More
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