Tuscany - Couverture souple

Mizon, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1856912981 ISBN 13 : 9781856912983

Editeur : Sunflower Books, 2005

Synopsis

Useful for visitors to Tuscany, especially walkers and those who tour by car, this book features car touring and a walking guide.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This pocket-sized guide describes car tours, picnic places and walks throughout Tuscany. While the region's historic towns and architectural highlights are often the focal points for these excursions, the role of the Tuscan peasant in creating this glorious landscape is stressed throughout - especially in the wealth of background information about Tuscany's customs and cuisine, flora, fauna and history - all of them illustrated.

The book should be particularly suitable for those who wish to combine a visit to Florence with seeing the Italian countryside (you'll need a good city guide for Florence, while this 'Landscapes' guide will show you the best of the rural scene).

8 car tours (with accompanying touring maps), 40 long and short walks (illustrated with 1:50,000 topo maps), 15 picnic suggestions. Free online update service with specific route change information on the publisher's website, maintained daily.

The 'Landscapes' series, with 50 destinations, has been dubbed 'the blue Bibles' by the Sunday Times and led to Sunflower being one of only four publishers (from a field of 18) chosen as a Which? Recommended Provider of Guidebooks.

This is a highly recommendable and very useful guide for discovering Tuscany. The layout of the book with tour descriptions being presented side by side with - but clearly distinguished from - additional and very interesting background informations and historical episodes makes this guide extremely user-friendly. The book contains a lot of very useful general as well as tour-specific practical hints which often save time and efforts. Of valuable practical help for orientation during the walks are the precise intermediate-time marks (they lose their lack-of-spontaneity-flavor completely during the trip!) and indications not only about where to go but also which way or path to ignore: nothing can go wrong! The tour descriptions are extraordinary precise - and precision is well balanced with enjoyment: it seems that just like an impressionist painter the author writes in open air and lets you share with her the enthusiasm about intensity of lights and colors of landscapes but by the same time leaves you the freedom to make your own experiences. This guide is useful for people going to Tuscany for a short trip as well as for those who are planning to stay longer. There is so much to see in Tuscany but you can trust that choosing any of the trips and walks from this guide is always a right choice. --('A Customer', Amazon)

Like all Sunflower guides, this one is worth its weight in gold. Although we have been to Tuscany before, this guide enabled us to add another dimension to our holiday as it guided us on many fascinating walks adjacent to places we know but of which we were unaware. --(pepperonata, Amazon)

Take to the hills, and whether you are driving, walking or going by bus, this latest offering from Sunflower will help you get there... This 'Landscape' volume fills a gap in the market, giving detailed itineraries for a number of short outings. You'll be happy to have this book for company. --(Sunday Times)

Such a good read, I feel I can revisit the area and enjoy its atmosphere at a moment's notice, just by opening the book, thanks to E Mizon's brilliant perceptively detailed writing. --(VH, email)

Biographie de l'auteur

Elizabeth Mizon has lived in Tuscany for many years, where she walks, paints and enjoys the local culture

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sunflower Books
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856912981
• ISBN 13: 9781856912983
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible