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	Tour of the Matterhorn  •  Hilary Sharp GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 192 PAGES A compact guide to the 8-10 day hike around the Matterhorn, as well as shorter variants and peak ascents. With color and black-and-white photos, maps and elevations. (SWZ49, $19.95)
	Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860-69  •  Edward Whymper EXPLORATION •  2002 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES Not just an account of Victorian-era mountaineering, this classic first-person account captures the geography, beauty and allure of the region. The intrepid Whymper made the first ascents of several important peaks in the Andes and the Alps, including famously the Matterhorn. (ALP02, $14.00)
	Killing Dragons, The Conquest of the Alps  •  Fergus Fleming EXPLORATION •  2001 •  PAPER  • 398 PAGES Fleming spins lively tales of man against nature in this entertaining history of the eccentrics, adventurers and publicity-hounds who sought to conquer the Alps, including Whymper and his first ascent of the Matterhorn (where four of the seven-man team perished). (ALP16, $14.00)
	Matterhorn Map  •   Swiss Government MAP A detailed topographic map of the Matterhorn, published by the Swiss government at a scale of 1:25,000. (SWZ50, $16.95)

	Switzerland Southwest Map  •   Michelin    •  A detailed travelers map at a scale 1:200,000, covering from Zurich south to Zermatt and Aosta and across to Geneva. (SWZ34, $8.95)
	Insight Guide Switzerland  •  Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handsome guide gives a profusely illustrated overview of Switzerland, featuring concise essays by well-regarded authors on history, politics and culture, as well as hundreds of photos and maps, and some practical information. (SWZ15, $32.20)
	La Place de la Concorde Suisse  •  John McPhee   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In the company of a Swiss patrol leader on a training mission, McPhee deploys his usual insight and wonderful prose on the phenomenon of the army of Switzerland. (SWZ14, $15.00)
	Why Switzerland?  •  Jonathan Steinberg   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A masterly overview of the idiosyncrasies of Switzerland, its history, language, politics and identity as a naysayer at the center of Europe. (SWZ04, $33.99)
	Eiger Dreams, Ventures Among Men and Mountains  •  Jon Krakauer   • EXPLORATION  •  A collection of some of Krakauer's (Into Thin Air) best journalism, these stories and essays focus on the mindset and determination of world-class mountaineers, including Alpine and Himalayan climbers. (ALP10, $13.95)
	There & Then, Travel Writings of James Salter  •  James Salter   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  These sketches and essays cover 20 years of novelist Salter's peripatetic life, particularly his extended time hiking and skiing in the Alps of Switzerland, Austria and France. (ALP28, $15.00)
	White Spider, The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger  •  Heinrich Harrer   • EXPLORATION  •  The classic tale of a young climber and the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in 1938. This edition includes photographs, maps, and a chronology of attempts on the North Face. (ALP09, $15.95)
	Hotel du Lac  •  Anita Brookner   • LITERATURE  •  The spellbinding, prize-winning novel of a romance novelist whose life begins to resemble her plots when she visits a luxurious hotel in the Alps. (SWZ05, $12.95)
	The Magic Mountain  •  Thomas Mann   • LITERATURE  •  In this classic novel of ill health in a sanatorium in the Swiss mountains, the author explores disease as a symbol of the sick, capitalistic society of pre-World War I Europe. (SWZ07, $18.95)
	The Night Manager  •  John Le Carre   • LITERATURE  •  This best-selling, post-Cold War thriller about ruthless arms dealers in Geneva is a gripping read. Carrying on the great Le Carre tradition of espionage, a man who essentially gave up living after a tremendous failure is given a costly shot at redemption. (SWZ06, $7.99)
	Birds of Europe  •  Killian Mullarney  •  Lars Svensson  •  Dan Zetterstrom  •  Peter J. Grant   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent. (FG47, $29.95)

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