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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $62, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXEUR741)		  
Eyewitness Guide Cracow  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 264 PAGES
This superb guide to Cracow features color photography, easy-to-use maps and top attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (PLD54, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Cracow
Frommer's Budapest Day by Day  •  Robert Smyth
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER
This shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, features excellent suggestions for everything from food and hotels to sightseeing and shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center. (HGR65, $12.99)		   Frommer's Budapest Day by Day
On Foot to the Golden Horn  •  Jason Goodwin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2003 •  PAPER  • 278 PAGES
An outstanding travel writer and journalist, Goodwin interweaves history, incident and reflection in this excellent portrait of Central Europe. With chapters on Cracow, Slovakia, Budapest, Transylvania, Brasov and Bulgaria. (EUR81, $17.00)		   On Foot to the Golden Horn
Czech and Slovak Republics Map  •  Michelin Travel Publications
2005 •  MAP • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A shaded relief map of the two nations at a scale of 1:600,000, with insets of Prague and Bratislava. It also covers the route of the Danube between Regensburg and Budapest. One Side. 40x56 inches. (CEU17, $11.95)		   Czech and Slovak Republics Map



Also Recommended

Culture Smart! Hungary  •  Brian McLean   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (HGR45, $9.95)
 		  
Culture Smart! Poland  •  Greg Allen   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (PLD68, $9.95)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Budapest  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Featuring handy maps and solid information on culture and history in addition to a detailed overview of attractions. With hundreds of photographs. (HGR15, $25.00)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Czech and Slovak Republics  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An illustrated guide to the history, culture, people and nature of the Czech and Slovak Republics in the popular series, with dozens of excellent maps and color photographs. (CZH68, $28.00)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Poland  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An informative, visual guide to the history, culture and attractions of Poland. (PLD21, $25.00)
 		  
Lonely Planet Czech and Slovak Republics  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  In the hallmark Lonely Planet style, this practical guide to the Czech Republic and Slovakia features 95 maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. (CZH07, $22.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Hungarian Phrasebook  •  Christina Mayer   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (HGR38, $8.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Polish Phrasebook  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handy pocket phrasebook includes pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary. (PLD79, $8.99)
 		  
A Concise History of Hungary  •  Miklos Molnar  •  Anna Magyar   • HISTORY  •  The author, a Hungarian historian, narrates the history of Hungary from little-known origins to 1988, encompassing the Magyars, the Austro-Hungarian empire and the Soviet era. (HGR30, $30.99)
 		  
A History of Slovakia, The Struggle for Survival  •  Stanislav K. Kirschbaum   • HISTORY  •  A historian from Bratislava traces his nation's roots from the first arrival on the Danubian Plain to Slovakia's declaration of independence in 1993. A particularly solid discussion of the Communist period and the nation's relationship with the Czechs and Hungary. (EUR93, $20.00)
 		  
Budapest 1900  •  John Lukacs   • HISTORY  •  Written by a distinguished historian and native son, this richly detailed portrait of the city at its zenith includes hundreds of illustrations. (HGR01, $16.95)
 		  
Bury Me Standing  •  Isabel Fonseca   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This marvelous portrait of the Roma, also known as the Gypsies, offers insight into their music, foods, religions and folk traditions, and also examines their influential but complex relationship with Eastern Europe. (EUR09, $14.95)
 		  
Cracow, An Illustrated History  •  Zdzislaw Zygulski   • HISTORY  •  A slender history of the Polish city, from its founding to the present day, with 50 black-and-white illustrations. The author is a curator at the National Museum of Cracow. (PLD33, $12.95)
 		  
Danube  •  Claudio Magris   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Mixing history, personalities and literature, Magris traces the course of the Danube from its source in the heart of the Austro-Hungarian empire through the Balkans to the Black Sea in this anything but conventional travelogue, first published in 1986. (EUR58, $17.00)
 		  
Heart of Europe, The Past in Poland's Present  •  Norman Davies   • HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  A history of Poland in reverse chronology from the Solidarity Movement to early civilization, condensed from the author's definitive three-volume history. (PLD06, $25.99)
 		  
Kingdom of Auschwitz  •  Otto Friedrich   • HISTORY  •  Otto Friedrich's slim book is an intensely personal account of the infamous Auschwitz death camp. He covers the entire history of Auschwitz in short chapters punctuated with eyewitness accounts and testimonies. (PLD04, $11.00)
 		  
The Haunted Land, Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism  •  Tina Rosenberg   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In this groundbreaking book, a journalist reports on how the newly democratized people of East Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic have confronted the horrors of their former governments. (EUR54, $17.95)
 		  
The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe  •  Dennis Hupchick  •  Harold Cox   • HISTORY  •  The changing borders and complex history of Eastern Europe as told through 52 maps and accompanying essays, organized chronologically. An excellent reference, the book shows the rise of Poland, changing borders of the Ottoman Empire, Hapsburgs and fate of Yugoslavia in admirable clarity. (EUR138, $21.95)
 		  
Cathedrals and Castles, The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages  •  Alain Erlande-Brandenburg   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages features hundreds of drawings, color illustrations and a brief chronology. (MED07, $15.95)
 		  
Another Beauty  •  Adam Zagajewski  •  Clare Cavanagh  •  Susan Sontag   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A quirky, lyrical memoir of coming of age in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s by the influential poet of the Polish New Wave. (PLD37, $19.95)
 		  
Fado  •  Andrzej Stasiuk   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A tribute to the culturally rich landscapes, literature and history of Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Albania by the Polish writer, poet, essayist and literary critic. (EUR350, $13.95)
 		  
The Zookeeper's Wife  •  Diane Ackerman   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A marvelous storyteller, Ackerman recalls madcap, bohemian Warsaw before WWII, the devastation of the city by Nazi bombs in 1939, the horrors of the holocaust and heroic efforts in the resistance in this moving tale of Antonina and Jan Zabinski, directors of Warsaw Zoo. (PLD70, $14.95)
 		  
Poland  •  James Michener   • LITERATURE  •  In his epic style, Michener presents the sweep of Polish history from the earliest days to 1983 in this massively researched novel. An excellent choice for the airplane. (PLD02, $7.99)
 		  
Prague  •  Arthur Phillips   • LITERATURE  •  Don't be fooled by the title -- this engaging novel is set in Budapest. Five young American expats have settled themselves in what they consider the "second-best" eastern European city, where chance encounters and interactions determine how their lives will -- or won't -- be changed. (HGR29, $15.00)
 		  
The Painted Bird  •  Jerzy Kosinski   • LITERATURE  •  The acclaimed novel based on the author's own experiences in World War II Poland. The often disturbing account of a young Jewish boy's journey through rural Poland as he tries to evade everyone from SS officers to anti-Semitic Polish peasants will leave an indelible impression. (PLD07, $14.00)
 		  
Birds of Europe  •  Lars Svensson   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps. (FG47, $29.95)
 		  
 
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