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Bradt Guide Ukraine
• Andrew Evans
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 440 PAGES
Ukraine is a country of diverse charms whose fanciful churches, imposing fortresses and landscape dotted with fields of sunflowers delight off-the-beaten-track travelers. This third edition of Evan's insightful guide, fully revised and updated by Marc Di Duca, combines practical travel essentials with insights into the country's history and culture.
(UKR12, $25.99) |
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Borderland, A Journey through the History of Ukraine
• Anna Reid
HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
A lively survey of the traditions and history of Ukraine, organized geographically. Reid, who was for three years the Kiev correspondent for the Economist, combines first-person reports, interviews and history in this insightful portrait of the region.
(RUS84, $17.00) |
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Return to Ukraine
• Ania Savage
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2000 •
HARD COVER
• 272 PAGES
An engaging account of a return journey to Ukraine by a journalist who fled the country with her family in 1944. Savage interweaves history, modern travelogue and personal anecdote.
(RUS126, $29.95) |
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Ukraine Map
• ITMB
MAP
A map of Ukraine, at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Two Sides. 27 X 39 inches.
(RUS86, $11.95) |
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A detailed street map (1:15,000).
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A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
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Lonely Planet Ukrainian Phrasebook
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This handy pocket phrasebook includes pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary.
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Black Sea
• Neal Ascherson
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In this skillful portrait of a region, Ascherson weaves his own travels and impressions with a fascinating account of the Black Sea's history. From ancient mythology to modern politics, he admirably never loses sight of the sea itself.
(RUS46, $19.00)
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Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917
• Michael F. Hamm
• HISTORY
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From medieval center to important city in Imperial Russia, this scholarly book is a wonderfully informative cultural history of the city and especially its 19th-century legacy.
(RUS56, $45.00)
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Odessa, A History, 1794-1914
• Patricia Herlihy
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Odessa, Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
• Charles King
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King (Black Sea, The Moldovans) writes with verve not only of the history of this great port city but also of noteworthy personalities, including Alexander Puskin, Isaac Babel and Nobel Prize-winning biologist Ilya Mechnikov.
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The Cossacks, An Illustrated History
• John Ure
• HISTORY
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In this lively, beautifully illustrated overview, a career diplomat (and frequent visitor to the region) explores the history of the Cossacks in Southern Russia and Central Asia and their role in world affairs.
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The Reconstruction Of Nations, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999
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The Ukrainians, Unexpected Nation
• Andrew Wilson
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An outstanding guide to modern identity, politics and history in Ukraine, highly recommended for an understanding of the geopolitics of the region and, especially, uneasy relations with mother Russia.
(RUS125, $19.00)
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Everything is Illuminated
• Jonathan Safran Foer
• LITERATURE
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The very modern (and very funny) tale of a young man and the search for his Ukrainian heritage. Foer plumbs the humor and tragedy of the American protagonist on a journey back to Ukraine.
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
• Isaac Babel
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An authoritative edition of Isaac Babel's powerful short fiction, including his early Red Cavalry Stories and The Odessa Tales.
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The Cossacks
• Leo Tolstoy
• Peter Constantine
• Cynthia Ozick
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A fresh translation of Tolstoy's 1863 semi-autobiographical novel about a young Muscovite and his military adventures in the rough-and-ready Caucasus. The book is, in part, a portrait of the Cossacks -- and an account of falling in love.
(RUS241, $13.00)
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The Fixer
• Bernard Malamud
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Set in Tsarist Russia, this well-known novel by Malamud tells the story of a young Jewish boy from Kiev wrongly accused of murder.
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The Twelve Chairs
• Ilia Arnoldovich Ilf
• Yevgeny Petrov
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In this classic satiric novel, an unemployed con artist and a former nobleman in post-revolution Soviet Russia travel from Moscow to Georgia in search of chairs containing hidden jewels.
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The White Guard
• Mikhail Bulgakov
• Marian Schwartz
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