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Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour$5.52Over the past several years, "the American in Tuscany" has become a literary subgenre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures-Americans trying to do American things in Italy and bumping against a brick wall of tradition.
A Day in Tuscany: More Confessions of a Chianti Tour$10.76A charming, heartfelt, and often humorous insider’s view of the Tuscan people, culture, and landscape. Readers who enjoyed Too Much Tuscan Sun will welcome this second book, which includes even more episodes from the author’s life growing up as a Chiantigiano.
An Osteria In Chianti$28.00"Ultimo is Chianti." The truth of these words-and the century-long existence of Ultimo Gori-is the essence of Dario Castagno's fourth book. A native "Chiantigiano" himself, Castagno explores his land through Ultimo's epic life, which begins with his 1908 birth as the tenth child of ill-fated sharecroppers in Chianti Senese. When Dario initially meets Ultimo in 1983-after the then-septuagenarian tosses his Vespa into a tree as if it were a sack of wild mushrooms-it is by chance.
Ein Tag in der Toskana$10.18
Too Much Tuscan Wine$19.40With his third book, Too Much Tuscan Wine, Dario Castagno decants another spellbinding volume about life in a place where the everyday can still be infused with magic and marvel. It follows up 2007's A Day In Tuscany, and his first book, Too Much Tuscan Sun - Confessions Of A Chianti Tour Guide (2004). The New York Times called that popular title, "an "engaging jaunt into the Italian countryside." Publisher's Weekly deemed it, "Brain candy to be enjoyed with a bottle of red.
Too Much Tuscan Sun, Confessions of a Chanti Tour Guide$12.63Author Dario Castagno, a Tuscan guide whose client base is predominantly America, has spent more than a decade taking individuals and small groups on customized tours through the Chianti region of Tuscany. Too Much Tuscan Sun is Dario's account of some of his more remarkable customers - from the obsessive and the oblivious to the downright lunatic. It is also a primer on Tuscany, its charms, and its culture.
Toskana Forever: Ein Reiseleiter erzählt (GermanSOLD OUTDie unvergesslichen Erlebnisse eines italienischen Reiseleiters in der Toskana.Zwischen Cola und Chianti: Ein italienischer Reiseleiter erzählt von unvergesslichen Erlebnissen mit amerikanischen Touristen. Auf der Suche nach Echtheit, Geschichte, Natur und Lebensgenuss stürmen sie jeden Sommer durch sein Leben und seine Heimat. Und Dario Castagno bemüht sich, ihnen sein Land mit allen kulturellen Schätzen und kulinarischen Genüssen näher zu bringen.
A green existence: cultivating dreams from infancy toSOLD OUTJonathon Radford was born near Brighton in Southern England in 1972 and grew up in a family of gardeners. In this book he takes us through the account of his quest to find his destiny and realise his dream of becoming an international garden designer.