Get More From Your Trip Easy-to-find phrases for every travel situation: Basics Practical Social Safe Travel Food Plus Order the right meal with our menu decoder Never get stuck for words with our 3500-word two-way dictionary We make language easy with shortcuts key phrases & common Q& As Feel at ease with essential tips on culture & manners 25+ years Lonely Planet Phrasebooks have been connecting travelers & locals for over a quarter of a century 120+ Languages Our phrasebooks & mobile apps cover more than any other publisher ...

Read listen to & practice Italian with our comprehensive phrasebook & CD pack. Full Lonely Planet Phrasebook Our best-selling Italian phrasebook gives you: fast access to all the travel phrases you needa 3500-word two-way dictionarya mouth-watering menu decoder to help you order the right meal Plus 375 Key phrases on Audio CDUnderstand the locals & be understood in practical social & emergency situations. From the comfort of your home enrich your travel experience by learning key phrases & improving your pronunciation before your trip. Or simply transfer the MP3 files to your portable media device & listen & learn during your travels. ...

From the Luganega to the Calabrese Italian sausages come in all shapes & sizes
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Once a successful surgeon Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago. Nearly twelve years have passed since he was disgraced for attempting to cover up a tragic mishap on the operating table. One morning in the depths of winter he sees a hunched figure struggling towards him across the ice. His past is about to catch up with him. The figure approaching in the freezing cold is Harriet the only woman he has ever loved the woman he abandoned in order to go & study in America forty years earlier. She has sought him out in the hope that he will honour a promise made many years ago. Now in the late stages of a terminal illness she wants to visit a small lake in northern Sweden a place Welins father took him once as a boy. He upholds his pledge & drives her to this beautiful pool hidden deep in the forest. On the journey through the desolate snow-covered landscape Welin reflects on his impoverished childhood & the woman he later left behind. However once there Welin discovers that Harriet has left the biggest surprise until last. ...

The eight stories in this collection by Moravian Pavese Pratolina & other modern writers have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary & there are notes & biographies to help the student of Italian. However the volume can also be helpful to Italians who can improve their English by studying a strict rendering of stories with which thet may already be familiar. ...

An innovative visual approach to learning & using basic Italian phrases Do you need to brush up on your Italian or learn the language full stop? Then pick up a copy of Italian Visual Phrase Pack & start learning today. Whether you're visiting Italy for business or pleasure you want to make sure you're understood & this guide will ensure you are. Find key phrases fast in this effective survival language guide for real-life situations. Galleries of words & pictures make it easy to find key basic Italian vocabulary at a glance & help you remember what you've seen. No prior knowledge required so you can learn phrases to help you find your way around eat out shop & go sightseeing. Plus a 60-minute audio CD will help you practise beforeh&. An easy-to-use pronunciation guide for every word & phrase will help you communicate with the native speakers when you've arrived. So pop Italian Visual Phrase Pack in your pocket when you're out & about in Italy so you can converse with the locals without any trouble. Now with a new look. (Previous ISBN: 9781405331661). ...

This is an illustrated phrasebook in the slimline format that has proved so successful for the Eyewitness Travel" pocket guides & maps. This is the perfect survival guide for everyday situations with all the essential phrases interspersed with illustrated wordlists making it easy to learn & remember key words. The book is arranged thematically & key phrases are broken down into simple building blocks so you can make up a variety of sentences from the same basic model. Each word & phrase is accompanied by a simple pronunciation guide & You may hear boxes give advice on what to listen out for. Commonly used expressions & words are listed on the cover flaps & there is a two-way dictionary at the back of the book for reference." ...

In Italian Ways bestselling writer Tim Parks brings us a fresh portrait of Italy today through a wry account of his train journeys around the country. Whether describing his daily commute from Milan to Verona his regular trips to Florence & Rome or his occasional sojourns to Naples & Sicily Parks uses his thirty years of amusing & maddening experiences on Italian trains to reveal what he calls the 'charmingly irritating dystopian paradise' of Italy. Through memorable encounters with ordinary Italians
- conductors & ticket collectors priests & prostitutes scholars & lovers gypsies & immigrants
- Parks captures what makes Italian life distinctive. Italian Ways also explores how trains helped build Italy & how the railways reflect Italians' sense of themselves from Garibaldi to Mussolini to Berlusconi & beyond. Most of all Italian Ways is an entertaining attempt to capture the essence of modern Italy.

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Pieta Martinellis sister is getting married. Since she is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But Pieta is distracted by a series of unanswered questions. Why is her father feuding with another Italian in the neighbourhood? Why is her mother so faded & sad? & could the man shes always held a torch for really be getting married to someone else? As Pieta stitches & beads her sisters wedding gown she uncovers the secrets that have made her family what it is & that stand between her & happiness. THE ITALIAN WEDDING is a feast of food & love. Its about discovering who your parents really are. & who you really want to be. ...

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