It’s a guidebook.
It’s a history book.
It’s a language guide.
And it has two language CDs that can help whip your Sicilian into shape.
Hippocrene Books’s Language and Travel Guide to Sicily (yep, that’s Sicily above), written by Sicilian born Giovanna Bellia La Marca, may be titled simply, but what its title promises is exactly what it delivers. And remarkably, the book remains small enough to be able to carry along on your trip.
The book’s chapters are organized around all the important themes–geography, food, art, architecture, annual events, and customs–and ends with a generous section loaded with restaurant and hotel recommendations.
I’d keep this book myself, but I’ve got no plans to go to Sicily anytime soon. Instead, I’m giving it away (and it’s brand new!) to the first Matador member who posts the URL for his or her profile and tells us about any past experience in Sicily or any future plans to travel there.
Community Connection: If you’re planning an Italy trip, be sure to check out Marla Seidell’s helpful guide, Slow Food, Slow Travel: Italy, over at MatadorTrips.
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We are planning to travel to Sicily in February of 2009. A colleague at work just returned from Sicily and his travel stories have inspired us.
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We are planning a trip to Sicily for February of 2009. A colleague from work just returned from Sicily and we were inspired by his travel stories.
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http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/phenom ? my comments were deleted and i can't log in? anyways, i would love to goto Sicily again. I was only 10 last time i went but even I could appreciate the delicious food, warm people, and beautiful landscape with a huge active volcano towering over it all. Beauty.
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This book must be great. Many times the importance of languages is underestimated in the whole travel guides world (but then it may just be my impression). Languages are a crucial part of the culture of a country, and as a Sicilian I'm also happy to see that in this book the language mentioned is the Sicilian instead of the official standard Italian. This makes me believe that the language & travel guide to Sicily promotes an original angle on this wonderful mediterranean island. I don't have a profile here at the moment but I'm happy to share a few pictures of the seaside around my hometown Siracusa, which I took during my last travel there back in March 2008… ” target=”_blank”>http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=110156&...
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Thanks, everyone, for your comments. Phenom, you're the winner of the book, and I'll be contacting you via your Matador account. Everyone else, stay tuned, we've got more great freebies coming up!
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