Travel Guides

Do you need one? Possibly. The problem is, you may not need the one you bought! There are so many to choose from today and you may find the sheer weight of them, if not the cost, render them prohibitive. Many guide books cover only major cities; some books do not cover accommodations. Some you will want to own, others you might just read at a library. Here is a listing of some of the guides available:

• Brown, Karen. Italian Country Bed & Breakfasts. The Globe Pequot Press, Chester, Ct.
• Facaros, Dana and Pauls, Michael. Northwest Italy: Piedmont, Aosta Valley, Liguria, Lombardy, Milan, the Lakes. 1992. Cadogan Guides. Cadogan Books, London and The Globe Pequot Press, Chester, Ct.
• Grossman, Susan. Italy On Your Own: Making the most of local food and drink. 1987. Hippocrene Books, Inc. New York, N.Y.
• Jepson, Tim. Wild Italy. 1994. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco.
• Langdon, Helen. The Knopf Traveler's Guides to Art: Italy. 1984. A Borzoi Book, Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York, N.Y.
• Millon, Marc and Kim. The Wine Roads of Italy. 1991. HarperCollins Publishers, New York.
• Plotkin, Fred. Italy for the Gourmet Traveler. Little, Brown.
• Reifsnyder, William E. and Reifsnyder, Marylou. Adventuring in the Alps: The Sierra Club Travel Guide to the Alpine Regions of France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Italy, and Yugoslavia. 1986. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco.
• Simon, Kate. Italy: The Places In Between. 1970. Harper and Row. New York.
• Steves, Rick.
  • 22 Days in Europe. John Muir Publications, Santa Fe.
  • Europe 101. John Muir Publications, Santa Fe.
  • Europe Through the Back Door. John Muir Publications, Santa Fe.
• Zellers, Margaret. Alpine Europe. 1993. Fielding Travel Books, New York.
• Baedeker's Rail Guide to Europe. Prentice Hall Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., One Gulf and Western Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10023.
• Birnbaum's Italy. HarperCollins Publishers. New York, N.Y.
• Blue Guides: Published by W W Norton, New York.
  • Northern Italy
  • Southern Italy
  • Sicily
  • Florence
  • Rome and Environs
  • Venice
• Cadogan Guides:
  • Italian Islands
  • Italy
  • Northeast Italy
  • Rome
  • South Italy
  • Tuscany
  • Umbria & The Marches
  • Venice
• Charming Small Hotel Guides: Italy, including Sicily and Sardinia. 1994. Hunter Publishing, Inc. Edison, N.J.
• Ecco Travels: Augustus Hare in Italy. (From the original travel books of Augustus Hare (1834-1903, with original wood engravings, Ed. Gavin Henderson.) 1988. The Ecco Press, New York.
• European Timetables. Published by Thomas Cook since 1873. Published in Britain the first day of each month. Available from Forsyth Travel, Shawnee Mission, Ks.. 1-800-FORSYTH (1-800-367-7984). Get on Forsyth's mailing list to check prices of various rail passes.
• Eyewitness Travel Guides: Florence & Tuscany. 1994. Dorling Kindersley Publishers, New York.
  • This is the most beautiful guide book -- and the most thorough. It has timelines, beautifully rendered city maps, pictures of dishes from Arosto misto to Scottiglia di Cinghiale! The section on train travel includes a picture of an FS rail ticket vending machine with a thorough explanation. Their book cover states "The guides that show you what others only tell you." and it does.
• Fodor's Italy. Fodor's Publications, Inc. New York and London.
• Frommer's Dollarwise Italy. Published by Simon and Schuster, Inc. New York
• Hachette Guide To Italy. Pantheon Books, New York.
• Insight Guides. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
  • Their list of guides covers most every place from Alaska to Yemen (except Trentino!).
• Let's Go: Published by Let's Go, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. Cambridge, Ma. Travel for the impecunious! One of the few guides that will tell you where to find a laundromat!
  • Italy
  • Rome
• Michelin Guides:
  • Red
    • covers accommodations and meals. Facilities are rated, price ranges are noted.
  • Green
    • covers attractions, history, art, scenic roads, etc.
• Off the Beaten Track: Italy. 1989. Harper and Row, Publishers, New York.
• The Real Guide: Italy. Prentice Hall, New York.
• The Rough Guide: Distributed by Penguin Books USA, Inc., N.Y.
  • Italy
  • Sicily
  • Tuscany & Umbria
  • Venice

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