A beautiful coffee table book. In a country as large as Italy, with so many varied regions, it was considerate of whoever was in charge of layout to include a tiny map of Italy on each page indicating the location where the photographs were taken. The photographs are a good size. Not too small in an attempt to cram more onto each page, yet not (as far as I recall) so big that they take up two pages and details get lost in the middle gutter. And they are bright, clear, and tell the story they are meant to.

Ours is/was oversized even for a coffee table book, yet it's softcover: so it got a bit tattered round the edges. Everyone enjoyed looking through it, but after that, it didn't prove to be the kind of book you go back to again and again. Still we might have kept it, except it was so big it wouldn't fit on our bookshelf and the kids needed the space on the coffee table to build their Lego creations. We passed it on with appreciation. ( )