Walking in Tuscany [Paperback]

Gillian Price (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2006

This full colour guide is a new edition, and offers suggestions for exploratory walks through the picture postcard landscapes of Tuscany, Umbria and Latium. Once known as Etruria, it was home to the ancient and enigmatic Etruscan people who preceded the Romans. The book has fifty itineraries ranging from brief strolls to the Chianti Trail, a five-day trek, taking in little-known Etruscan marvels such as ancient sunken roads and monumental tombs.Walkers are guided through medieval hamlets, exquisite Romanesque churches, unspoilt coast and countryside alive with wildlife and carpeted with wild flowers and aromatic herbs. There's the wild Chianti ridge, city walks through Perugia, Orvieto and Voltera, day walks on the divine island of Elba and along the unspoilt coast around Orbetell.A mass of practical details cover accommodation in farms, country hotels, convents and hostels, with notes on local specialities in the food and drink field. Visitors are encouraged to use the public transport system so as to minimise impact.The aim of this guide is to encourage people to get out of their car and walk.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Gillian Price was born in England, and has travelled through Asia and trekked the Himalayas. From her home in Venice, she is now exploring the mountain ranges of Italy to produce a series of outstanding guides for Cicerone. Gillian is an member of the Italian Alpine Club and the Outdoor Writers' Guild. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc; 1ST edition (May 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566563445
• ISBN-13: 978-1566563444
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,816,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars junk, February 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Walking in Tuscany (Paperback)

A group of us (seasoned travelers) used this book as a guide. We only used it for a short time as it had very poor directions and wasted a lot of our time. I would recommend avoiding this product. It made for a frustrating time, albeit in a beautiful place.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Walk through history with the Etruscans, August 25, 2001

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Colleen McCann (Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walking in Tuscany (Paperback)

I did both the no.29 "Sovana's Sunken Roadways and Necropolises" and no.30 "Sovana to Pitigliano the Old Way" walks and loved every minute of them. Italy is full of museums and archeological sites but this is ancient history out in the countryside! The sunken roads are fascinating gorges formed by the wheels of horse-driven vehicles that have worn ruts over the centuries in the soft rock called tufo. Sometimes these are up to 20 metres deep. We would never have discovered places so interesting and 'off the beaten track' without this book.

18 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A different look at Tuscany, April 17, 2000

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Libby Gallagher (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walking in Tuscany (Paperback)

this is a traval book with a difference! It takes you for short walks through Tuscany or you can take on the challenge of walking from Florence to Siena. Its well researched and most of the walks can be done using public transport