Sicily
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Sicily
By Dana Facaros, Michael PaulsWith their usual authority and wit, Facaros and Pauls reveal the complexities of Sicilian culture and history as well as describing its many sights. They give the latest details on...
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Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers
By Andrew Edwards, Suzanne EdwardsThe advertising executive Angus Campbell, retreating from the hectic pace of Rome, semi-retired to the town with his wife, a member of a long-standing local family. Being in the unique position of an outsider with access to an insider's ...
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Sicily
By Hans Hoefer, Brian BellYet a Sicilian muddle caused excavations to be abandoned in 1985 and has delayed the restoration of mosaics that suffered flood damage in 1991. Many are discoloured , including those in the Great Hall . If this were Venice , there would ...
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Sicily
By Robert Andrews, Jules BrownDavid Abbott ; G. Bailey ; Scott Bailey , Tomas lan G. Jones and Maxine M. Anderson ; Arve Beskow ; John Biancale ... Juliette Colangelo ; A.J. Cotter ; McKinnell ; Maura Marca ; Birgitte Nielsen and Peter Crump ; Diana Dickson ...
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Sicily
By Jeffery Pikeand finally volcanic desert , sustaining only small hardy plants and flowers , such as the Etna violet , that can survive the extremes of temperature . general regulations , available at every park office and information point ...
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Sicily: A Meeting of Mediterranean Civilizations
By Giuseppe Lazzaro Danzuso, Giulio VeggiThis series brings together a number of volumes dedicated to the most beautiful areas of Italy. These books boast impressive pictorial documentation but also provide readable texts with accurate information....
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Sicily: Palermo & the Northwest
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Sicily
By William Tuohy, Kurt AmmannThis long-established series of pocket travel guides has been revised and updated.
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Sicily: A Cultural History
By Joseph FarrellAlexander, Alfred, Giovanni Verga London: Grant & Cutler, 1972. Battaglia, Letizia, Passion, Justice, Freedom: Photographs of Sicily. ... Leighton, Robert, Sicily Before History. London: Duckworth, 1999. Loud, G. A., e Age of Robert ...
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Sicily
By Dana Facaros, Michael PaulsUnravels the big island’s stormy history and complex myths – takes you to the high drama of Etna’s free firework displays and serene far-flung islands in the cleanest seas in Italy – reveals the fantastic architecture of Syracuse on ...
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Sicily
By Dana Facaros, Michael PaulsThe biggest island in the Mediterranean, Sicily possesses a strangely savage beauty and has been the setting for cultures' great legends: the mythic garden of Persephone, an Islamic paradise on earth and the fairy-tale Norman kingdom.
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Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History
By John Julius NorwichCritically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history. “Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is ...
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Sicily: An Illustrated History
By Joseph Frederic PriviteraSicily was the jewel of the Mediterranean, and Sicilians were the first civilized people of the Western World-here is their rich and diverse history in crisp prose and lively illustration....
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Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History
By Sandra BenjaminThe first and only history of Sicily for the general reader, this book examines how location turned this charming Mediterranean island into the epicenter of major historical conquests, cultures, and more.
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Sicily
By Andrew James BirtleCMH Pub. 72-16. Covers the Allied invasion of Sicily from July 9 to August 17, 1943. Sicily was the first piece of the Axis homeland to fall to the Allies...
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Sicily: The Insecure Base : a History of the British Occupation of Sicily, 1806-1815
By Desmond GregoryThe Insecure Base : a History of the British Occupation of Sicily, 1806-1815 Desmond Gregory ... in from encouraging masse , 53 ; his pessi- Sicily , 19 ; untrustworthy as troops in mism about defending Sicily , 48 , 69 ; Sicily , 46 47 ...
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Sicily: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II (Pamphlet)
By Andrew James BirtleBut it was to be only a temporary stand , for while General Guzzoni still talked of defending Sicily to the end , Berlin had decided to withdraw gradually from the island . Guzzoni , his authority weakened by the disintegration of most ...
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Sicily: Culture and Conquest
By Peter Higgs, Dirk BoomsThis book is the catalog that the British Museum is publishing for its major Spring 2016 exhibition, Sicily: Culture and Conquest.
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Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers
By Andrew Edwards, Suzanne EdwardsThis compelling guide uncovers the island's multi-faceted personality through those literary figures who have managed to get under her skin - from Pindar, Cicero and Aeschylus to Shakespeare and Cervantes; DH Lawrence, Coleridge and Oscar ...
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Sicily: Three Thousand Years of Human History
By Sandra BenjaminThe first and only history of Sicily for the general reader, this book examines how location turned this charming Mediterranean island into the epicenter of major historical conquests, cultures, and more.