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Fodor's Paris' 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 128 PAGES
This slim guide to Paris includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing.
(FRN41, $11.95)
Eyewitness Guide Budapest
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 264 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to the city featuring excellent maps and solid information on culture and history in addition to a detailed neighborhood-by-neighborhood overview of attractions. With hundreds of photographs.
(HGR15, $23.00)
Eyewitness Guide Prague
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 264 PAGES
This superb guide to Prague features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the celebrated city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(CZH01, $23.00)
Prague, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Paul Wilson
ANTHOLOGY 1996 PAPER 256 PAGES
COMING IN OCTOBER
Designed with the traveler in mind, this anthology of 24 vivid stories by Prague writers, contemporary and well known, brings the city of Prague to life. The stories and essays -- covering cultural life, society and love -- are organized geographically by district. With a helpful map of Prague, this book is an unusual literary guide to the city.
(CZH08, $14.95)
Budapest 1900
John Lukacs
HISTORY 1990 PAPER 255 PAGES
Written by a distinguished historian and native son, this excellent book is a richly detailed cultural portrait of the city at its zenith. Divided thematically, this popular history presents the geographic setting of the city, its people, economy and cultural and intellectual life. With maps and archival photographs.
(HGR01, $14.00)
Czech and Slovak Republics Map
Michelin Travel Publications
2005 MAP
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.
(CEU17, $11.95)
Budapest Map
Borch Maps
A convenient map of the city center at a scale of 1:11,000.
(HGR34, $7.95)
Blue Guide Budapest
Bob Dent
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive guide to the architecture, history and culture of Budapest.
(HGR20, $18.95)
Fodor's Prague's 25 Best
Citypack
GUIDEBOOK
This pocket-size booklet includes an outstanding map of the city as well as a brief overview of its museums, grand buildings and other attractions.
(CZH02, $11.95)
Lonely Planet Czech Phrasebook
Lonely Planet
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A palm-sized guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary.
(CZH50, $8.99)
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)
Visible Cities Budapest
Annabel Barber
Emma Roper-Evans
GUIDEBOOK
A detailed, personable guide to the city, featuring a good overview of history, cultural background, suggested walking tours, a map of the city center and practical advice on where to go and what to do.
(HGR43, $27.95)
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, $26.99)
A Propos De Paris
Henri Cartier-Bresson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This handsomely produced coffee table book features 131 duotone images of Paris selected by Cartier-Bresson in honor of his 90th birthday. It's a splendid tribute to the people and life of the City of Light.
(FRN132, $35.00)
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, folk traditions, and examines their influential but complex relationship with Eastern Europe.
(EUR09, $14.95)
Prague in Black and Gold, Scenes From Life in a European City
Peter Demetz
HISTORY
Both a history and accessible guide to the neighborhoods and architecture of the city.
(CZH09, $17.95)
The Coasts of Bohemia, A Czech History
Derek Sayer
HISTORY
A political and cultural history of the Czech people, this intriguing book places the historically important Bohemia and Moravia regions at the center of European events. The author draws on literature, the arts, culture and politics to evoke Czech history, society and identity.
(CZH10, $29.95)
The Hungarians, A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
Paul Lendvai
Ann Major
HISTORY
A journalist who fled Hungary in 1957, Lendvai combines history, scholarship and anecdote in this uncommonly engaging account. With verve and authority, he covers the struggle of the Magyars' against the Tartars, Turks and Russians over the past milennium.
(HGR32, $26.95)
The Magic Lantern, The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
Timothy Garton Ash
HISTORY
With a chapter each on Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague, this eyewitness account by an astute journalist and historian shows these vibrant cities during a time of great change.
(GER36, $13.95)
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A treasure for anyone interested in Parisian cafe society and its luminaries circa 1925. Hemingway includes sharp portraits of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford and others who idled on their way to greatness.
(FRN26, $15.00)
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Fermor effortlessly interweaves anecdote, history and culture in this exuberant account of a walk from Holland, up the Rhine and down the Danube in 1933, through Germany, Prague and Austria. The now-accomplished author reflects on adventures 40 years past with perspective and a sweet nostalgia. The adventure continues in Between the Woods and Water (CEU31).
(CEU30, $16.95)
Between Meals, An Appetite for Paris
A.J. Liebling
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
FAVORITE
Liebling captues with stylish prose his coming-of-age in Paris in this elegant memoir, which is also a tribute to French cuisine.
(FRN32, $14.00)
Between the Woods and the Water
Patrick Leigh Fermor
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Fermor's classic account of walking across Europe in 1933 continues with his youthful adventures in Hungary and Romania, culimating with his arrival at the Iron Gates, marking the divide with the Balkan Peninsula.
(CEU31, $15.95)
Budapest Diary, In Search of the Motherbook
Susan Rubin Suleiman
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A lovely and affecting memoir of a childhood in 1940s Budapest and a return trip in 1993 as an academic fellow. Suleiman is now a professor at Harvard.
(HGR37, $14.95)
Into a Paris Quartier, Reine Margot's Chapel and other Haunts of St. Germain
Diane Johnson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Novelist Diane Johnson (Le Divorce) writes with insight, verve and wit in this affectionate, personal portrait of St Germain-des-Prés, her neighborhood on the Left Bank.
(FRN491, $10.95)
On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul
Jason Goodwin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Goodwin interweaves history, incident and reflection in this excellent portrait of Central Europe. With chapters on Cracow, Slovakia, Budapest, Transylvania, Brasov and Bulgaria
(EUR81, $15.00)
Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Gopnik writes with candor and humor about Paris and Parisian ways in these charming reflections on adapting to life abroad.
(FRN208, $15.00)
Time's Magpie, A Walk in Prague
Myla Goldberg
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A delightful walking tour of Prague by the bestselling author of "Bee Season."
(CZH58, $16.00)
A Traveller's Companion To Prague
Jan Kaplan
ANTHOLOGY
A portrait of the city, its neighborhoods, architecture, society and culture as seen through the eyes of writers over the centuries, including Petrarch, Hans Christian Anderson, Graham Greene and Patrick Leigh Fermor.
(CZH65, $16.95)
Travelers' Tales Paris
James O'Reilly
ANTHOLOGY
This diverse collection of well chosen, mostly modern tales by mostly foreign writers, includes short excerpts by Edmund White, Jan Morris, Mort Rosenblum, Ina Caro and Julian Green.
(FRN25, $18.95)
Travelers' Tales Prague And the Czech Republic, True Stories
David Farley
Jessie Sholl
ANTHOLOGY
A well-chosen selection of mostly modern tales of intrigue, adventure and fun. With contributions by Myla Goldberg, Helen Epstein, Jan Morris, and Francine Prose.
(CZH60, $17.95)
Life with a Star
Jiri Weil
Philip Roth
LITERATURE
A fictional account of the Holocaust told through the story of a young Czech Jew.
(CZH43, $19.00)
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
MYSTERY
Poirot rides the rails. Need we say more?
(EUR118, $6.99)
Orient Express
Graham Greene
Christopher Hitchens
LITERATURE
Greene's 1932 spy thriller, in which a memorable cast of eccentrics speeds across Europe from Ostend to Constantinople aboard the Orient Express.
(GBR501, $15.00)
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, $13.95)
The Bridge at Andau
James Michener
LITERATURE
The true story of a bridge that became a means of escape to the west during the Hungarian revolt in 1956. It's classic Michener: gripping and action-packed.
(HGR17, $6.99)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
LITERATURE
Kundera's intriguing novel, praised for its meditations on the nature of men and women, and on the fearful emptiness of life in Prague under Communist rule.
(CZH16, $13.95)
Under the Frog
Tibor Fischer
LITERATURE
Irony and wit pervade this novel set against the backdrop of the short-lived Hungarian revolution of 1956. The author's own experiences are played out by a cast of Kafkaesque characters all looking for a way though the turbulent days before the Russian tanks roll into Budapest.
(HGR12, $15.00)
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