Which Books to Take to Sardinia?

Not sure which guide books and novels to take on your trip? Give these a look.

Guide Books • Diving Books • Sea Life • Fiction

Sardinia Guide Books and Maps

Sardinia

by Dana Facaaros and Michael Pauls, Paperback, Cadogan Guides, 308 pages, (2004)
Very good on Sardinian history and cuisine. Includes the normal sections on getting there, opening hours, festivals, money, etc. Small amount on where to stay or eat but plenty of information on beaches, ancient sites, churches and general site-seeing. Recommended
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Lonely Planet : Sardinia

by Paula Hardy, Paperback, Lonely Planet Publications, 264 pages, (2006)
Worth a look.
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Michelin Italy, Sardinia Map No. 566

Covers the entire island.
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Chart M9 Sardegna (South)

Imray, 2002.
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Chart M8: Sardegna (north Sheet)

Imray, 2003.
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Sardinia Dive Guides

Sardinia Diving Guide

by Egidio Trainito, Paperback, Swan Hill Press, (1997)
Excellent photography and includes descriptions of the sea life in Sardinia. Thirty-one dive sites around the island are described.
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Sea Life

The Mediterranean Sea

by Angelo Mojetta, Swan Hill Press, 2005, Paperback.
As well as the history and geology of the Mediterranean, and many maps showing its constituent seas, this book describes the underwater life. It also includes practical advice for divers.
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Sea Fishes and Invertebrates of the Mediterranean

by Lawson Wood, Paperback, New Holland Publishers, 128 pages, (2002)
Covers 289 species with colour photographs
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Fishes of the Sea: The North Atlantic and Mediterranean

by John Lythgoe, Gillian Lythgoe, MIT Press, 1991, 256 pages, Hardback.
Photographic and descriptive guide emphasizes the appearance of marine fish in their natural habitats.
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Complete Mediterranean Wildlife

by Paul Sterry, Collins, 2000, 384 pages.
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Fiction

Sea and Sardinia

by D H Lawrence, Paperback, Penguin, 512 pages, (1997)
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The Bandit on the Billiard Table

by Alan Ross, Paperback, The Harvill Press, 236 pages, (1989)
The account of a summer journey through Sardinia in the 1950s
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Elias Portolu

by Grazia Deledda, Paperback, Northwestern University Press, 194 pages
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After the Divorce

by Grazia Deledda, Hardback, Northwestern University Press, 174 pages, (1989)
Set in a Sardinian village, a man wrongly accused of murdering his uncle suffers prison and his wife remarrying.
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Cosima

by Grazia Deledda, Paperback, Quartet Books, 150 pages
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La Madre: (The Woman and the Priest)

by Grazia Deledda, Paperback, Dedalus Ltd, 225 pages, (1987)
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The Day of Judgement

by Salvatore Satta, Paperback, The Harvill Press, 298 pages, (1994)
The story of Nuomo, a town in Sardinia which "has no reason to exist".
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