219 Pete Austin is the popular moderator of our Life In Abruzzo Facebook group whose members he enchants as he delves into his bookcase to share the history and culture of Abruzzo through photography and illustrations. Here is his ever-growing Abruzzo book list on his Italian bookshelf, it does include four books he does not have (the last four) but dreams of one day owning Anne Macdonell & Amy Atkinson – In the Abruzzi, 1908 Anne Macdonell – The Life of Benvenuto Cellini.1903 Estella Canziani – Through The Apennines And The Land of the Abruzzi. 1928 Maud Howe – Roma Beata, 1904 Maud Howe – Two in Italy. 1905 Norman F Carver Jr – Italian Hilltowns 1979 Donald Hall – Eagle Argent, 1956 Anthony Rhodes – A Sabine Journey, 1950 John Miller – Friends and Romans: On the Run in Wartime Italy. 1989 Frances Toor – Festivals and Folkways of Italy, 1953 Vincenzo Battista – La Cultura degli oggetti. 1984 tuttitalia series – Abruzzo Molise 1965 Ferrovie dello Stato – State railway guide to Abruzzo. 1910 Mario Moretti – Architettura Medioevale in Abruzzo. 1971 The Studio – Peasant art in Italy – 1913 Le Regioni d’Italia, volume 12 – Abruzzo e Molise. 1970 Ente Nationale Industrie Turistiche & Ferrovie Dello Stato – L’Aquila. 1943 Emidio Agostinoni – IL FÙCINO. 1908 Emidio Agostinoni – Altipiani d’Abruzzo. 1910 Fratelli Alinari – Abruzzo. 2003 Michael Montgomery – Lear’s Italy. 2005 Touring Club Italiano – Abruzzo e Molise. 1948 Touring Club Italiano – Abruzzo Molise. 1970 John Verney – A dinner of Herbs. 1966 H.V. Morton – A Traveller in Southern Italy.1969 Giovanni Tavano – Abruzzo, una terra di scoprire.1990 ( 2nd edition 2008) Fulvio Roiter – Terra d’Abruzzo. 1983 Vienna Tordone – Thomas Ashby, Viaggi in Abruzzo 1901/1923 Vincenzo Balzano – Abruzzo e Molise. 1927 Folco Quilici – Abruzzo e Molise, 1970 (Canesi publisher) Mario Fondi – Abruzzo e Molise, 1970 (UTET) Pepi Merisio – L’Abruzzo nell’Italia di ieri, 2011 Kurt Hielscher – Unbekanntes Italien. 1939 Edward Lear – Illustrated Excursions in Italy, Volume 1. 1846 Richard Keppel Craven – Excursions in the Abruzzi and northern provinces of Naples. 1837 Sir Richard Colt Hoare – A classical tour through Italy and Sicily. 1819 Henry Swinburne – Travels in the Two Sicilies. 1783 Must Reads on Abruzzo Pete’s posts have sparked other members of the community to share their favourites too which we have included here Ignazio Silone – Abruzzo Trilogy Donato De Simon – Suffer the Children, Richard Walmsley – Trilogy of fiction set in Abruzzo – The Case of the Sleeping Beauty, A Close Encounter with Mushrooms, and The Vanishing Physicist Cheryl Hardacre – Chewing Gum in Holy Water Giuseppe Ferrone – The History of Molise and Abruzzo Italy Donatella Di Pietrantonio 0 A Girl Returned and A Siter’s Story Edward Lear’s Illustrated Excursions Electa Napoli 1999 – Francesco Paolo Michetti Prima Edizione Aa.vv. Click here to see reviews, cookbooks and a list of our Abruzzo travel companion books, and don’t forget to follow Pete’s feed on our Instagram feed, #abruzzofotobypeet! Affiliate Links The selections included in this post are unbiased and independent and based on a real bookshelf. When possible we do include an affiliate link back that will earn the contributor of this post Pete a small commission (also known as “affiliate revenue”). When you the reader click through to ABE or Amazon from a link contained on this post and buy an item, we receive a small commission, anywhere between 2-5% of the total price. We believe this is a fair exchange as our posts are written for free by our amazing contributors. Author: Sam Dunham Sam is a very lucky midlife Mum to A who is 13 and juggles working as a freelance SEO copywriter with teaching IGCSEs at Istituto Cristo Re in Rome. She is the founder of the Life In Abruzzo Cultural Association, co-founder of Let's Blog Abruzzo and the 'English in the Woods' initiative. Protecting Abruzzo’s Charm,Empowering Generations to Come:Grow Life in Abruzzo! Support our not-for-profit cultural association: Donate now FREE NEWSLETTER Leave this field empty if you're human: