Globe Pequot Press.Globe Pequot Press PO Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437 1-800-243-0495 www.globepequot.com A Chianti tour guide presents a native Tuscan's view of travel in Italy in Dario Castago with Robert Rodi's Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide (0762736704, $14.95), a funny, warm survey of Dario's more unusual clients and his life and times as a travel guide in the Chianti region of Italy. His native roots and perspective offers a different type of coverage than most travelogues of the region, providing a memoir memoir History or record composed from personal observation and experience. Closely related to autobiography, a memoir differs chiefly in the degree of emphasis on external events. of the Americans who have stormed the area yet missed some of its best attractions--and many a would-be friend. Jeanne L. Clark and Robert W. Garrison's NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern NATURE WEEKENDS (Falcon Guides, 0762711515, $14.95) also provides an excellent read as well as serving as a take-along tote for destination-oriented nature lovers visiting Northern California. There are many weekend choices only natives tend to know about, here; from renting a houseboat on Shasta Lake For the city, see . Shasta Lake is a reservoir created by the building of Shasta Dam in California, USA. Shasta Lake is the 3rd largest lake in California, after Lake Tahoe and the Salton Sea, with a capacity of 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.6 km³). and visiting the tufa tufa: see travertine. mounds and birds at Mono Lake Mono Lake is an alkaline and hypersaline lake in California, United States that is a critical nesting habitat for several bird species[1] and is an unusually productive ecosystem. to biking on Angel Island. |
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