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Packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to get the most from your visit! In this compact guide, our writers help you plan itineraries for short and longer stays. Complete with must-see sights on and off the beaten track as well as current hotel and restaurant recommendations. And the convenient size of the guide allows you to take it along in your pocket or handbag. Take the world in your pocket next time and travel with this handy Berlitz guide.

Berlitz Pocket Guide Italy (Berlitz Pocket Guides)

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A Whole Lot of Info In this little tiny book!!!

Berlitz Pocket Guide Italy (Berlitz Pocket Guides)
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A Whole Lot of Info In this little tiny book!!!.......2007-08-11

I bought a bunch of books on Italy for my trip in Sept. This is the one I will be taking with me!! I cannot believe how much info it packs in this tiny book.

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Packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to know to get the most from your visit to Tuscany: Natural beauty, rolling hills, gentle valleys, lush vineyards, endless fields of sunflowers; magnificent art from the Renaissance masterpieces of Florence to the medieval splendor of Siena; pastoral hill towns, the towers of San Gimignano, the Etruscan treasures of Volterra, the vineyards of Montepulciano; Umbrian gems, Perugia, center for chocolate- and pasta-making, Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis, and Orvieto, with its spectacular Duomo; shopping tips, a guide to the best of Tuscan cuisine, a guide to music and folk festivals, plus language and culture tips.

Genoa and Italian Lakes Berlitz Pocket Guide

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Genoa and Italian Lakes Berlitz Pocket Guide

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Malta (Berlitz Pocket Guides)

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Packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to get the most from your visit! Featured are: historic sights: Fort St. Elmo, Magisterial Palace, Inquisitors Palace, the Rotunda, Cathedral of St. Paul; ancient wonders: Tarxien Temples, Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum, Mnadjra; museums: Archaeological Museum, National War Museum, National Museum of Fine Arts, National Maritime Museum; spectacular beauty: Blue Grotto, Anchor Bay, breathtaking views from Upper Barracca Gardens; unique diversions: swimming at Melliena Bay, birdwatching at Ghadira Nature Reserve, watching sea lions and dolphins perform at Mediterraneo Marine Park; on the island of Gozo: Fort Chambray, the Citadel, Ninu's Cave, Temple of Ggantija, Azure Window; hotel and restaurant recommendations, plus language and culture notes.

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Packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to get the most from your visit! Featured are: magnificent churches: the Duomo with Brunelleschi's exquisite cupola, Basilica di Santa Croce's tombs of Michelangelo and Galileo, Basilica di San Lorenzo, panoramic views from Basilica di San Miniato al Monte; architectural masterpieces: Il Battistero, Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, Campanile di Giotto; renowned museums and art galleries: Galleria degli Uffizi, Galleria dell' Accademia, Museo di San Marco, Museo Nazionale del Bargello; nearby sights: Leaning Tower of Pisa, Siena's Palazzo Pubblico, the picturesque town of San Gimignano; shopping: ceramics, glassware, gold and silver jewelry, leather goods; hotel and restaurant recommendations, plus Berlitz language and culture notes.

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Berlitz Italy Pocket Guide
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Berlitz Italy Pocket Guide (Berlitz Pocket Guide)

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Italy Pocket Guide is packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to get the most from your visit! Travel to Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan and Naples. Take in Pisa's Leaning Tower, Siena's Piazza del Campo, Verona's Roman Arena, Ravenna's San Vitale, Lake Como's Villa Carlotta or Capri's Blue Grotto. All this plus recommendations for shopping, nightlife, and recreational activities are packed into this handy, user-friendly Italy Pocket Guide.

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Little Known Subject of British Colonial Wars.......2005-03-26

Many students or afficianados of 19th century British colonial wars in Africa are only familiar with the more well-known episodes of same, such as the Anglo-Zulu War, the Boer Wars or the travails of Gordon and Kitchener in the Sudan. This book is fascinating for its very readable study of the Asante (formerly Ashanti) tribe of modern day Ghana, which actually had a standing army armed with muskets and organized along neo-European tactics, who dominated their tribal neighbors and gave the British army and its African conscripts a real run for their money over an approximate 100 year period. The author treats both sides of the conflict fairly, and it is apparent that the Asante wanted peace with the British in order to enhance their own prestige and trading opportunities in the area, but the British, under the guise of stamping out oppression to their coastal tribe allies and to stop human sacrifice, took it upon themselves to march inland and crush Asante dominance on several occasions, although not without being bloodied in the process. This is one of those works of history that opens the door to a little known chapter of British military history, and which reads like a novel. Highly recommended, and contains some interesting illustrations and photographs as well.

The hundred year war for Africa's gold coast........2002-11-18

A good book about the end of the Asante Empire. Edgerton tells the end of this empire from both the British and Asante perspectives. The Asantes were a militaristic society who preyed on the weaker societies around them, notably the Fante. The British desired trade and gold, and the conflict was inevitable when the Asante sent armies to conquer the Fante. This brought the British into conflict.
The author takes too much of a nativist perspective in his depiction of the Asante Empire. This empire gloried in slaves and human sacrifices. It had a great military tradition, but why would a author try to paint a positive view of a society that sought entertainment value in the putting to death of slaves. The British may have been interested in conquest and colonization of this land for trade and gold reasons. They may have been rascist, but the Asante were a brutal society. The expiration of this empire was perhaps not such a tragedy after all. The British brought Ghana and the Asante into the modern world.

Great Book.......2001-01-26

This is a great book, epically for a novice in African history. While American are taught about the different European civilizations we are thoroughly ignorant about similar African civilizations. The Asante Empire was long established in Western Africa (present Ghana) and had an advanced civilization. They had a well organized army, with at the time of the first conflict with Britain, were armed with modern muskets. They had a well organized government and religion.

The conflict with the British was far from a cake walk for the British. The Asante fought bravely for their freedom and gave the British everything that they could handle. The British were not able to subdue the Asante until the progress in arms technology made the Asante armaments obsolete and gave the British a huge advantage. Eventually it was British howitzers vs. Asante muskets.

a fascinating story, well-told.......2000-11-09

For centuries the Ghana nee the Gold Coast nee the Ashanti kingdom has been a major producer of gold. The 16th century arrival of European powers on the West African coast opened up vast new trading opportunities. The Europeans tried to push inland to locate the source of the gold, while the Ashantis tried to subjugate the coastal dwelling Fantes who intermediated the trade between the seafaring Europeans and the Ashanti and other inland groups.

This book describes the 100 years on-again off-again war between the British (and their Fante allies) and the Ashanti (supported by the Dutch). The author is an anthropologist and his intepretation of events emphasizes the cross-cultural incomprehension of two societies (Victorian Britain, and late Ashanti Empire) which in some ways were remarkably similar: aristocratic, hierarchical, chauvinistic, imperialistic, militaristic. Some of the stories are fascinating as in the depressing case of the British kidnapping and torture of an Ashanti peace emissary which predictably leads to Ashanti mobilization and the seige of the British castle at Cape Coast. Or the fact that it takes 70 years for the British to figure out that desertions by the Fante were less motivated by cowardice than the fact that the British were forcing their Fante porters to do culturally innappropriate "women's work." Nevertheless, the author clearly likes both the British and the Ashanti, so he makes constant references to the "cowardly" "perfidious" etc. Fante. What the Ashanti could not do, malaria and dysentary did (they don't call West Africa "White Man's Grave" for nothing) and in the end, the British need howitzers and Yoruba troops brought in from Nigeria to capture the Ashanti capital of Kumasi. The final armed resistance to the British is led by an old woman named Yaa Asantewaa who after her capture died in exile in the Seychelles.

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Superb treasury of images by one of the most distinctive and original artists of the 20th century — from fanciful fiddlers hovering above rooftops to imaginatively conceived depictions of bareback riders and other circus performers. Includes, among other masterworks, Wounded Soldier, Three Acrobats, Child on a Chair, Nude with a Fan, and The Magician.

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