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World Travel, Esoteric Lands, Archaeology |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / BOOKS FROM ABROAD |
| Author: Ann Geracimos |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,096 Words, 7,042 Characters |
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Wherever Frances Mayes goes, the patter is familiar, the scene intimate. Alas, all too familiar. The author of Under the Tuscan Sun and three other books about Tuscany now has expanded her scope to take off for A Year in the World (Broadway Books, $26, 420 pages). It's an idiosyncratic itinerary, subtitled "Journeys of a Passionate Traveller," the better to keep us guessing her next port of call. Seemingly without a care in the world, and certainly without any money worries, she goes from Italy, to Spain, Portugal, back to Italy again, Morocco, Burgundy, and on and on.
She spares us no details, even tedious ones about her husband's health, so that much of the book seems to have ...
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...rchitectural photographer John Cleave, whose previous work was a similar study of Washington, D.C. landmarks. Wide Angle: National Geograpic Greatest Places (National Geographic, $30, 501 pages), with commentary by Ferdinand Protzman, is a magnificent collection of 260 striking color photographs by that institution's renowned professionals.
Copyright © 2006 The Washington Times, LLC.
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