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Fodor's London's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 128 PAGES
This slim guide to London includes a separate map of the city's center and a 96-page pocket book with essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing.
(GBR08, $11.95)
Fodor's Edinburgh's 25 Best
Hilary Weston
GUIDEBOOK 2008 PAPER 128 PAGES
A handy pocket guide and map.
(SCT131, $11.95)
Fodor's Dublin's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 128 PAGES
A shirt-pocket guide to Dublin, this slim book includes an excellent map of the city's center and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing, all in a slipcover. A perfect guide for a brief visit.
(IRE30, $11.95)
The Story of England
Christopher Hibbert
HISTORY 1992 PAPER 224 PAGES
Beautifully illustrated with color pictures, chronological charts, royal genealogies, and maps, this popular history of English politics, economics, and culture from the Neolithic to the 1990s is an excellent traveler's companion. Hibbert, a masterful storyteller, relates anecdotes that bring history to life in this concise, highly readable introduction to England's past.
(GBR02, $14.95)
Scotland, A Concise History
Fitzroy MacLean Magnus Linklater
HISTORY 2001 PAPER 248 PAGES
This classic, illustrated study brings Scottish history up to the present through its romantic figures and bloody battles. With 250 well-chosen and integrated illustrations, it's an excellent visual survey. Revised with an additional chapter by Magnus Linklater.
(SCT15, $19.95)
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
W.B. Yeats
LITERATURE 2004 PAPER 380 PAGES
This volume combines two books of folklore edited by the Nobel Prize-winning poet who spearheaded the Celtic Renaissance in the early 20th century. These stories of changelings, ghosts, mermaids, demons, saints, priests and fairies are enchanting and entertaining. Originally published in 1918.
(IRE04, $13.95)
Edinburgh Map
Streetwise
A laminated, folded map of Edinburgh.
(SCT52, $7.95)
Dublin, A Cultural History
Siobhan Kilfeather
GUIDEBOOK
This literary guide to Ireland's capital, organized by definitive events and personalities, covers Dublin's beginnings as a 10th-century Norse trading center to the establishment of Trinity College and the election of Mary Robinson.
(IRE172, $24.99)
Eyewitness Guide Dublin
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A compact, highly visual guide to sites, attractions and places of Dublin.
(IRE85, $20.00)
Eyewitness Guide London
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This superb guide to London features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(GBR34, $25.00)
Crowded with Genius, The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind
James Buchan
HISTORY
A well-written exploration of Edinburgh and the achievements of its noted thinkers from the failed Scottish revolution of 1745 through the turn of the 19th century.
(SCT84, $14.95)
Five Days in London, May 1940
John Lukacs
HISTORY
A fly-on-the-wall account of a long weekend in 1940, capturing all the uncertainty, drama and suspense surrounding Churchill's affirmation that Britain would continue the war with Germany.
(WAR47, $11.95)
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This best-selling history tells the generally unknown story of Ireland's preservation of classical learning in the Dark Ages.
(IRE07, $14.95)
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
Arthur Herman
HISTORY
The emigration of Scottish peoples and ideas is the subject of this bestselling history. Herman argues (convincingly) that many of the greatest political, intellectual and technological innovations of the 18th and 19th centuries came from the Scots.
(SCT65, $14.95)
Ireland, A Concise History
Conor Cruise O'Brien
HISTORY
With its lively, even-handed tone and hundreds of photographs, this grand history by scholar and statesman O'Brien conveys the essence of the Irish experience.
(IRE20, $19.95)
London Perceived
Evelyn Hofer
V. S. Pritchett
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A classic, lyrical celebration of the palaces, parks, people and everyday experience of London. Pritchett's eloquent riffs on the character of the city are accompanied by evocative black-and-white photographs by the superb Evelyn Hofer.
(GBR310, $19.95)
London, The Biography
Peter Ackroyd
HISTORY
A big thematic history of London from Celtic settlement to Roman outpost and world power, much focused on the life of the city. A popular biographer and novelist, Ackroyd leavens the centuries with anecdote, personality and great affection.
(GBR248, $19.95)
Pax Britannica, The Climax of Empire
James Morris
HISTORY
The centerpiece of the trilogy "Pax Britannica," this entertaining history concentrates on the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial power and splendor.
(GBR10, $26.00)
Stone Voices, The Search for Scotland
Neal Ascherson
HISTORY
Ascherson writes with verve and insight on the centuries-old impulse toward nationhood in Scotland in this absorbing portrait, interweaving history with archaeology, myth and his own interviews and travels.
(SCT66, $14.00)
Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
ART & ARCHITECTURE
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages featuring hundreds of drawings and color illustrations and a brief chronology.
(MED07, $12.95)
The Book of Kells, An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin
Bernard Meehan
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Written by the keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, this book features 110 color illustrations, including enlargements, of some of the more spectacular decorations on this most famous of medieval manuscripts.
(IRE09, $19.95)
In Search of London
H.V. Morton
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
An enduring portrait of the city and especially of its history, originally published a half-century ago. As in all of his travel books, Morton charmingly mixes a deep appreciation of the art, culture and, especially, the history of a place with his own keen observations.
(GBR269, $18.50)
Queen of Scots, The True Life of Mary Stuart
John Guy
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
This major revisionist biography of the much-maligned monarch by British historian and Cambridge fellow John Guy won the 2004 Whitbread Award.
(SCT82, $16.95)
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
Jerome Jerome
Jeremy Lewis
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
FAVORITE
Written in 1889, "Three Men in a Boat" (to say nothing of the dog!) is a laugh-out-loud account of a man-powered voyage along the River Thames, full of detail on life and lore. A Longitude favorite.
(GBR28, $11.00)
For the Love of Ireland, A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
Susan Cahill
ANTHOLOGY
A literary anthology featuring famous Irish writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Frank McCourt and Samuel Beckett.
(IRE77, $15.95)
44 Scotland Street
Alexander McCall Smith
LITERATURE
In this witty novel, McCall Smith traces the lives and eccentricities of the men and women living in an Edinburgh boarding house.
(SCT83, $13.95)
Death in Dublin, A Novel of Suspense
Bartholomew Gill
MYSTERY
This last of the Peter McGarr series revolves around the theft of the revered Book of Kells, a dastardly blow to religion, politics and all things Irish.
(IRE159, $6.99)
Dubliners
James Joyce
LITERATURE
James Joyce's unsurpassed collection of short stories depicting ordinary life in Dublin among the lower middle class -- a milestone in the history of prose fiction.
(IRE15, $9.95)
In a Time of Violence
Eavan Boland
LITERATURE
Poems of Ireland and the violences there --personal, political, historical and familial.
(IRE86, $12.95)
London, The Novel
Edward Rutherfurd
LITERATURE
This novel marches through 2,000 years of London history.
(GBR98, $18.95)
Rob Roy
Sir Walter Scott
LITERATURE
Adventure in the highlands of 18th-century Scotland starring the dashing outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor. Part of the "Penguin Classics" series, this book contains explanatory notes and an introduction that sets it in its historical context.
(SCT20, $11.00)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle
LITERATURE
This paperback volume manages to collect every Sherlock Holmes story that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote, including "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and his three other short novels concerning the legendary detective.
(GBR157, $13.90)
The Death of a Joyce Scholar
Bartholomew Gill
MYSTERY
In this eighth Peter McGarr mystery, Trinity College professor Kevin Coyle is found fatally stabbed after an annual Bloomsday tour.
(IRE150, $6.99)
The Heat of the Day
Elizabeth Bowen
LITERATURE
The suspenseful tale of life in London during the bombing raids of World War II.
(GBR378, $14.95)
The Ministry of Fear
Graham Greene
LITERATURE
A thriller set in London during the Blitz by the master of atmosphere and ambiguity Graham Greene.
(GBR571, $14.00)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
LITERATURE
A slender, terribly witty novel from the incomparable Dame Muriel. Miss Jean Brodie is an unorthodox teacher at an Edinburgh girls' boarding school who wins the hearts and minds of her students, only to discover that girls from the provinces are ill-prepared for progressive thought.
(SCT42, $12.95)
The Princes of Ireland, The Dublin Saga
Edward Rutherfurd
LITERATURE
An epic novel drawing in the events, personalities and drama of Dublin from settlement through the Easter Rebellion.
(IRE145, $16.95)
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