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Inside Lonely Planet Florence & Tuscany Travel Guide: Full-colour maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - including customs, history, art, literature, cinema, architecture, politics, landscapes, cuisine, wine Free, convenient pull-out Florence map (included in print version), plus over 46 colour maps Covers Florence, Siena, Central Coast, Elba, Apuane Alps, Lucca, Pisa, San Gimignano, San Minato, Chianti, Arezzo, Garfagnana, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet Florence & Tuscany, our most comprehensive guide to Florence & Tuscany, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled. 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It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kx7f0sbnawddasd58emthvjn.jpg?v=599898c99b","LZGakTWsNIbIPXski_n%9$WrWXWX",[753,754,755],{"id":28,"slug":29,"name":30},{"id":18,"slug":19,"name":20},{"id":23,"slug":24,"name":25},[757],{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":15},[],{"pace":60,"complexity":7,"audience":63,"mood":760,"themes":761,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[65],[],{"id":763,"slug":764,"title":765,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":766,"cover_blurhash":767,"first_publish_year":81,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":12,"page_count":768,"authors":769,"genres":778,"series":783,"enrichment":784},"01kqy5pjf5htvp72bnq7z08akq","gust-per-paris-7xvu","Gust per París","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kqy5pjh2dmwx0b4awjvkg7yb.jpg","L3BCb}0#00~A02j]R%aeAQ~A~p57",320,[770,774],{"id":771,"slug":772,"name":773},"01kjr16zgjtp0e0vxb7s6kpafj","a-j-liebling-f2qg","A. 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During that trip, John F. Kennedy kept a diary, never before published and until now unknown - even to Kennedy scholars. As the diary makes clear, that European trip was a turning point in the future President's life. The scion of one of America's wealthiest families, Jack Kennedy had grown up in the shadow of an adored older brother destined for greatness. For himself, Jack had intended a quiet career as a college professor or perhaps as an author. But when Joe Kennedy, Jr. was killed in the skies over the English Channel, the expectations of his family and the mantle of leadership passed on to JFK. Would he accept them? That was the question that confronted Kennedy as he traveled in the company of cabinet secretaries and generals, future presidents and prime ministers, toured a humbled Germany, and faced for the first time the power of post-war Russia and the perfidy and bloody-mindedness of Communists in power. It was on this trip, the diary shows, that Kennedy first confronted the \"long twilight struggle\" for the preservation of Western freedom that would define his Presidency. In these few months an agenda for a Presidency began to be forged. For as the closing pages of the diary make clear, it was at this time that the challenge was accepted, the mantle taken up, and Kennedy began laying plans for his first run for Congress, the first step in his journey to the White House. Prelude to Leadership offers, as Hugh Sidey says in his Introduction, an \"intriguing new trove\" of insight into the mind of a future president preparing himself for a \"still distant challenge.\" It reveals a man who, not yet thirty, understood not only that a new world drama was taking shape, but that he was destined to play a great role in it.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6naqnzdfj51pppgzcvzhkp.jpg?v=55680b8e30","L7A,n8?H0KE1R,D*WBt7~qWXt6M|",1995,210,[822],{"id":823,"slug":824,"name":825},"01kjqz7r1k64py8xn70jg5n7bw","john-f-kennedy-abuy","John F. 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She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages of books and in person, and now, in Imagined London, she takes her own readers on a tour of this greatest of literary cities.While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always been the star, both because of the primacy of English literature and the specificity of city descriptions. She bases her view of the city on her own detailed literary map, tracking the footsteps of her favorite characters: the places where Evelyn Waugh's bright young things danced until dawn, or where Lydia Bennett eloped with the dastardly Wickham.In Imagined London, Quindlen walks through the city, moving within blocks from the great books of the 19th century to the detective novels of the 20th to the new modernist tradition of the 21st. With wit and charm, Imagined London gives this splendid city its full due in the landscape of the literary imagination.Praise for Imagined London:\"Shows just how much a reading experience can enrich a physical journey.\" —New York Times Book Review\"An elegant new work of nonfiction... 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In her effort to understand the hopes and dreams that motivate her new friends, Kennedy peels back India's globalized image as a land of call centers and fast-food chains and finds an ancient place where, in many ways, women's lives have scarcely changed for centuries.--From publisher description.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2ha85epr7hpywvh4aertrt.jpg?v=af190aa4b7","L2Ca0f04CGT10G-+Dl$~00M,^1NH",342,[868],{"id":869,"slug":870,"name":871},"01kx2ha8594bx8413x21426yh8","miranda-kennedy-oygb","Miranda Kennedy",[873,874,875],{"id":657,"name":658,"slug":659,"is_fiction":14},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":15},{"id":90,"name":91,"slug":92,"is_fiction":15},[],{"pace":109,"complexity":7,"audience":63,"mood":878,"themes":879,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[669,66],[],{"id":881,"slug":882,"title":883,"description":884,"primary_cover_url":885,"cover_blurhash":886,"first_publish_year":887,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":12,"page_count":888,"authors":889,"genres":898,"series":902,"enrichment":903},"01kx25mnaazkr02xneaeb0f6mn","all-roads-lead-to-austen-a-year-long-journey-with-jane-monc","All Roads Lead to Austen A Year-long Journey with Jane","\"An illuminating insight...fascinating.\"--Amanda Grange, bestselling author of Mr. Darcy's Diary \"A journey through both a physical landscape and the geography of the human heart and mind...delightfully entertaining and often deeply moving, this book reminds us that Austen's world--and her characters--are very much alive.\"--Michael Thomas Ford, author of Jane Bites Back WHERE DO BOOKS TAKE YOU? With a suitcase full of Jane Austen novels en espanol, Amy Elizabeth Smith set off on a yearlong Latin American adventure: a traveling book club with Jane. In six unique, unforgettable countries, she gathered book-loving new friends-- taxi drivers and teachers, poets and politicians-- to read Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice. Whether sharing rooster beer with Guatemalans, joining the crowd at a Mexican boxing match, feeding a horde of tame iguanas with Ecuadorean children, or tangling with argumentative booksellers in Argentina, Amy came to learn what Austen knew all along: that we're not always speaking the same language-- even when we're speaking the same language. But with true Austen instinct, she could recognize when, unexpectedly, she'd found her own Senor Darcy. 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As they travel to remote locations, they encounter new challenges and allies, all while seeking to understand humanity's role in shaping the future.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01ktdjqdfvxk23vwy19qxh4bhe.jpg?v=efc28a3d60","LaJ5.BSg5ps.=wbGRmbG}AbHI[j@",1996,257,[916,920,924],{"id":917,"slug":918,"name":919},"01kk0n58jrekdrtkw11p2afa85","james-redfield-pgjy","James Redfield",{"id":921,"slug":922,"name":923},"01kqmp65wpqv14eheb2mtzy12h","carol-adrienne-1fdv","Carol Adrienne",{"id":925,"slug":926,"name":927},"01kra2rx2rn51k8z5kj19bpej7","leidefeierde-zcre","Leidefeierde",[929,933,934],{"id":930,"name":931,"slug":932,"is_fiction":15},97,"Spirituality","spirituality",{"id":403,"name":404,"slug":405,"is_fiction":15},{"id":33,"name":34,"slug":35,"is_fiction":15},[936],{"id":937,"slug":938,"name":939,"position":107,"is_main_entry":14,"parent_id":7,"parent_slug":7,"parent_name":7},"01kp5xwhqmn5rde5vzr1x9mbdc","the-celestine-prophecy-wvv5","The Celestine Prophecy",{"pace":379,"complexity":7,"audience":63,"mood":941,"themes":943,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[942],"hopeful",[494,944],"chosen-one",{"id":946,"slug":947,"title":948,"description":949,"primary_cover_url":950,"cover_blurhash":951,"first_publish_year":726,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":12,"page_count":952,"authors":953,"genres":958,"series":960,"enrichment":961},"01kx2jjpqrygtwdqcff5rrxtxe","a-pig-in-provence-kypb","A pig in Provence","Provence has always been a very special place for Georgeanne Brennan. 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