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This Rough Guide toTuscany & Umbria is one of a new generation of informative andeasy-to-use travel-guide ebooks that guarantees you make the most of yourtrip. An essential tool for pre-trip planning, it also makes a great travelcompanion when youre on the road.
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Weve gone to a lot of effort to ensure that the ninth edition of The Rough Guide to Tuscany & Umbria is accurate and up-to-date. However, things change places get discovered, opening hours are notoriously fickle, restaurants and rooms raise prices or lower standards. If you feel weve got it wrong or left something out, wed like to know, and if you can remember the address, the price, the hours, the phone number, so much the better.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mark Ellingham set up Rough Guides in 1982, writing the first four books, and was series editor for more than twenty years. He now publishes environment and music books for Profile/Serpents Tail, co-publishes Sort Of Books and is a contributing editor to Songlines, the world music magazine. He is also a trustee of the rainforest charity Cool Earth, and of Camara, which sends refurbished computers to Africa.
Jonathan Buckley has written and contributed to several Rough Guides and has published eight novels. He lives in Brighton.
Tim Jepson has worked in Rome as a journalist and is co-author of Rough Guides on Canada, Florence & Siena, the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver. He is also author of some twenty books on Italy and has worked on the travel desk of a UK broadsheet.
Acknowledgements
Jonathan Buckley: thanks to Brendon Griffin for making the editing process as easy as possible.
Tim Jepson: thanks to Dana Conley.
Marc di Duca: many thanks to my family for their company and patience on the trip around Umbria and to staff at tourist offices around the region, especially those in Perugia, Citt di Castello, Spello and Spoleto.
Readers updates
Thanks to all the readers who have taken the time to write in with comments and suggestions (and apologies if weve inadvertently omitted or misspelt anyones name):
Lawrence Bacon, Steve Connell, Susan Headley, Gary Lines, Andy Miller, Bob Morris, Penny Robinson, Simon Tendeter, Rolf Waagepetersen, A Whitley.
Photo credits
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