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1	A Valley in Italy more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist In "A Valley in Italy," the author details the year she and her husband, artist Robbie Duff-Scott, spent restoring a magnificent villa hidden in the Umbrian hills. Only after signing ownership papers did the anxious couple discover that their dream castle lacked some necessary amenities, such as windowpanes and parts of a roof. The author's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Hacienda: A Memoir more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist From a prize-winning British author comes a lush, absorbing memoir--an "Out of Africa" set in the Venezuelan Andes. Tremendously atmospheric, "The Hacienda" brilliantly evokes the unique confluence of time, place, and people that shaped this powerful writer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.09! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Keepers of the House more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist This is St Aubin de Teran's first novel. Originally published in 1982, it won the Somerset Maugham Award that year. Set in the Venezuelan Andes, the story tells of a English woman newly married to a sugar planter and of the people she meets in the valley. She has also written "A Valley in Italy". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Elements of Italy by Lisa St. Aubin De Teran add to wishlist The turnstile into Italy has clicked continually for centuries - Lord Byron loved here and continues to draw romantics in his wake, Stendhal concluded: 'The charm of Italy is akin to that of being in love'. Yet Italians love their country more than any foreigner ever can, it is a place where labourers do hum Verdi, quote Dante and find their lunch ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
5	Swallowing Stones more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist Lisa St Aubin de Teran's "Swallowing Stones" is a fictionalized account of the extraordinary life of one Oswaldo Barreto Miliani, code-named Otto -- adviser to Castro, confidant of Salvador Allende, and sharp thorn in the sides of both the CIA and the KGB. In the riveting and remarkable invented memoirs of the legendary seventy-year-old ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.03! \| SVS
6	Otto more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist 'I was born in 1934 in a little lost village near San Cristobel de Torondoy eleven months after my brother. Unlike him, who was astonishingly handsome, I was astonishingly ugly. I was covered in black hair from head to foot like some kind of monkey. For some reason my ear-drums burst within days of my birth. The local doctor told my mother "This ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $12.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Joanna more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist Written by the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Gregory Award, this family drama features a trinity of women bound by compulsion and secrecy. Joanna, an abomination to her mother, discovers the inheritance that has shadowed her family for generations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Virago Book of Wanderlust and Dreams more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist The stories collected in this anthology of women's writing share a passion for the open road, and it comes across in travel narratives, dreams of travel, and dream itself as a means of adventure. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Hacienda: A Memoir more books like this by Lisa St Aubin de Teran, Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist An Englishwoman recalls her troubled marriage to a Venezuelan, and the years she lived at the family hacienda. When Lisa St. Aubin married Jaime de Teran in 1968, she barely knew a thing about him apart from his name and the fact that he was rich, aristocratic, and extremely handsome. After their wedding--when she was 18--she soon saw signs of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Southpaw more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist Venezuela to Italy, villages to prisons and forests to whore houses are the backdrops to these short stories. In many senses, the characters are the dispossessed, but through compassionate tales they are seen anew through their will to survive, their grace and humour. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
11 view cover	Memory Maps more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist 'I am a wanderer: one with a hoarder's love of houses and things...I am tracing here a memory map of all the places that have stayed with me and, since this is also a map of all the voyages of discovery, this is also the story of the getting to those places.' In Memory Map, probably her most personal book, Lisa charts a life spent in all corners ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.10! \| SVS
12	Indiscreet Journeys: Stories of Women on the Road more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist Now in paperback, Indiscreet Journeys brings together 26 stories of women travellers who, driven by necessity, boredom, ambition, love or simple curiosity, venture by foot, bus, train and plane around the block and around the world. Includes writings by Welty, Cather, Wharton, and others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13	The slow train to Milan by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Off the Rails: Memoirs of a Train Addict more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist m childhood journey for the author, through Russia on the Occident Express, began a lifetime's obsession with trains. This book describes some of her many journeys. Train trips through Argentina, around Italy, from the Norfolk fens or to Loch Dhu, all part of a surprising journey through life. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
15	Bay of Silence by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Mozambique Mysteries more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a new direction. Lisa St Aubin de Teran travelled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-travelled life, felt at home - in a place 'so remote that few have visited it since the time of Vasco da Gama'. After three marriages and various affairs, she also fell in love. She set up a ... see all copies from $10.44! new only from $16.53! \| first editions
17 view cover	Venice: The Four Seasons more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist The first glimpse of Venice has inspired man y an artist and writer. Lisa St Aubin de Teran was so taken with the city that she decided to live there. In this book, she takes a look at everyday life in the city. ' see all copies from $3.00! new only from $27.40! \| first editions
18	The Long Way Home more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Elements of Italy more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran (Editor) add to wishlist The turnstile into Italy has clicked continually for centuries - Lord Byron loved here and continues to draw romantics in his wake, Stendhal concluded: 'The charm of Italy is akin to that of being in love'. Yet Italians love their country more than any foreigner ever can, it is a place where labourers do hum Verdi, quote Dante and find their lunch ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $76.05! \| first editions \| SVS
20	A Valley in Italy: The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbria more books like this by Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist In "A Valley in Italy," the author details the year she and her husband, artist Robbie Duff-Scott, spent restoring a magnificent villa hidden in the Umbrian hills. Only after signing ownership papers did the anxious couple discover that their dream castle lacked some necessary amenities, such as windowpanes and parts of a roof. The author's ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21 view cover	Memory Maps by Lisa St. Aubin De Teran add to wishlist "I am a wanderer: one with a hoarder's love of houses and things...I am tracing here a memory map of all the places that have stayed with me and, since this is also a map of all the voyages of discovery, this is also the story of the getting to those places." In "Memory Map", probably her most personal book, Lisa St Aubin de Teran charts a life ... see all copies from $11.99! first editions
22	The Tiger by Lisa S. De Teran, Lisa St Aubin De Teran add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
23	Black Idol (Pavanne Books) by Lisa St. Aubin De Teran add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53!
24 view cover	Keepers of the House by Lisa St. Aubin De Teran add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00!
25	The Marble Mountain and Other Stories by Lisa St. Aubin De Teran add to wishlist A collection of short stories, all completely different, all laced with drama and poignancy. They include "Diamond Jim", a ghost story, and "I Never Eat Crabmeat Now", a psychological metaphor. By the same author as "Keepers of the House", "The Slow Train to Milan", and "Off the Rails". see all copies from $2.53!

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