All the rest is misery," wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of fascism and World War II to witness the beginnings of Italy's postwar prosperity. Searchingly alert to nuances of speech, feeling, and atmosphere, and remarkably varied, his novels offer a panoramic vision, at once sensual and finely considered, of a time of tumultuous change. This volume presents readers with Pavese's major works. The Beach is a wry summertime comedy of sexual and romantic misunderstandings, while The House on the Hill is an extraordinary novel of war in which a teacher flees through a countryside that is both beautiful and convulsed with terror. Among Women Only tells of a fashion designer who enters the affluent world she has always dreamed of, only to find herself caught up in an eerie dance of destruction, and The Devil in the Hills is an engaging road novel about three young men roaming the hills in high summer who stumble on mysteries of love and death.

    A tour through the renowned Gallery, as offered in this volume, is a walk back in history to those glorious days.The Uffizi--a legend of beauty that boasts one of the richest artistic patrimonies in the world--houses magnificent examples of the works of nearly all the artists who played significant roles in the history of Western art. You can admire here superb reproductions of the paintings of the Early Renaissance masters, Giotto, Cimabue, Duccio and Simone Martini; here are all the great innovators, from Masaccio and Paolo Uccello to Piero della Francesca, from Leonardo da Vinci to Raphael and Michelangelo; here you can compare the geometric vigorr of Domenico Veneziano with the lyric splendor of Sandro Botticelli; here you can examine the opulent richness of Titian and Tintoretto and Caravaggio and the warm perfection of Bronzino and Pontormo. Nor are the Northern painters neglected, with the inclusion of splendid examples from the Gallery's collection of German, French, Dutch and Flemish paintings.Your personal escort will be the Uffizi's curator, Luisa Becherucci, the woman who rushed to "her" museum in November, 1966, amid the pandemonium of devastated Florence to salvage works of art endangered by the rising waters of the flooded Arno River. Prof. Becherucci will guide you through the palace begun in 1559 for Cosimo I de' Medici, which served as Offices (Uffizi) for the Florentine judiciary, and that now houses the world's finest collection of Renaissance art.This beautiful volume includes representative works of Italy's most prestigious museum and thus gives the reader a vivid idea of the Uffizi's vast artistic heritage. Each color reproduction is accompanied by a caption giving all the pertinent information about the artist and the work of art itself--its date, medium and technique, size and its history. In addition, each illustration is the subject of a critical analysis prepared especially for this volume by one of Europe's leading art historians.

    . . is really through Archie Carr's mind, where it is easy to move from Africa to Florida or Central America, or from mechanical dredges to prehistoric monsters. The result is always interesting because Mr. Carr has a rare ability to look at the world freshly."--Marston Bates, New York Times"The sights to which he calls our attention . . . the mile-high mushroom swarms of kungu flies of Lake Nyasa, the buzzards' ready manipulation of whirlwinds . . . are merely the chords from which, with the toughness of science and the insight of art, he improvises a brilliant opera of speculations about the evolution of animal adaptive behavior."--The New YorkerIn the timeless voice of a classic, Ulendo speaks to readers today with even more force and elegance than it did on its first publication in 1954. Written by Florida's preeminent nature writer, this memoir describes the African journey--the "ulendo," as they say in Malawi--of Archie Carr, who spent several summers in Africa on official business to study animal-borne diseases and sea turtle habitats.    His secret aim, he wrote, was "to see my dream of Africa unfold." Revealed here in images of pythons, fly spouts, and curious men, his dream became a passion to preserve the African wilderness. "I had thought of Africa as inexhaustible," he wrote in the preface. "Now, however, I am not able to get rid of the thought of its waning. It comes repeatedly into the Ulendo story, and has modified somewhat the tone of blithe irresponsibility I was aiming for."    Every few days during his trips he wrote letters to his wife and five children at home in Florida, and these personal asides, full of devotion to his family and enthusiasm for his adventure, are published for the first time in this new paperback edition. "Of course it was a lonely summer," Marjorie Carr writes in her prologue to the 1952 correspondence. "Archie's letters, written on little thin airmail stationery, were anxiously awaited and read and reread." With the reappearance of this collector's treasure, a new generation has the opportunity to experience the adventures and passions of this eloquent naturalist.Archie Carr, Jr. (1909-87), world-renowned sea turtle expert, was the University of Florida's first graduate research professor. Among his many books are The Windward Road (UPF, 1979), High Jungles and Low (UPF, 1992), So Excellent a Fishe, and several volumes for the Life Nature Library. In addition to countless awards for scientific work, Carr received the O. Henry Memorial Award, the John Burroughs Medal, and the first Hal Borland Award of the National Audubon Society for his writing.