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These 5 items are available for $74, including U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXMED392)

Eyewitness Guide Greek Islands  •  Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 400 PAGES • BEST SELLER This guide features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and an island-by-island synopsis of attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this compact book provides an essential overview of the Greek Islands (with a chapter on Athens and a section on practicalities). (GRE37, $28.00)
Fodor's Venice's 25 Best  •  Citypack GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 128 PAGES This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information on Venice's highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing. (ITL106, $11.99)
Bradt Mini Guide Dubrovnik  •  Piers Letcher GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES A helpful, condensed guide to the city in the popular Bradt series. (BLK46, $13.99)
Greece, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Artemis Leontis ANTHOLOGY •  1997 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES A collection of 24 stories by modern Greek writers, organized geographically -- and a wonderful introduction to Greek people, culture and landscapes. Editor Artemis Leontis is an adjunct professor of modern Greek at the University of Michigan. She includes stories by Odysseus Elytis, George Seferis, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Vassilis Vassilikos. (GRE190, $14.95)
Mediterranean Cruises Map  •  Freytag & Berndt 2008 •  MAP A double-sided, full-color map of the Mediterranean, including the Iberian Peninsula and Black Sea, North Africa and the Levant, at a scale of 1:2,000,000. Two Sides. 35.5X49 inches. (MED36, $14.95)

Croatia Coast Map  •  Freytag & Berndt    •  A nicely shaded map covering the Dalmatian Coast from Porec to Dubrovnik at a scale of 1:200,000. Fully indexed and excellent in its topographic detail, this is a useful guide to the complex coastline of the Adriatic. (BLK17, $12.95)
Mediterranean by Cruise Ship  •  Anne Vipond   • GUIDEBOOK • BEST SELLER  •  The best-selling, compact guide, featuring excellent local maps, hundreds of color photographs, concise background information and recommended excursions for ports-of-call throughout the Mediterranean. (MED34, $21.95)
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece  •  Robert Morkot   • REFERENCE  •  This pictorial survey of Greek history, culture and expansion features dozens of full color maps. (GRE125, $18.00)
The Foods of the Greek Islands, Cooking and Culture at the Crossroads of the Mediterranean  •  Aglaia Kremezi   • FOOD  •  Kremezi spent eight years collecting the recipes appearing in this cookbook. The book is also filled with lively histories of the islands, cultural asides and stunning photographs. Perfect for anyone interested in Greek island life. (GRE120, $40.00)
1453, The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West  •  Roger Crowley   • HISTORY  •  Crowley recounts with drama the events surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in this well-paced history. (TKY114, $14.99)
A Short History of Byzantium  •  John Julius Norwich   • HISTORY  •  A richly detailed and evocative narrative history of the tumultuous span of the great empire from the fourth century to the fifteenth, brimming with intrigue, skullduggery, palace revolution and other treachery. (TKY18, $17.95)
Balkan Ghosts, A Journey through History  •  Robert D. Kaplan   • HISTORY  •  Kaplan interweaves the history, art and culture of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece with his travels in this portrait of the region. (BLK02, $16.00)
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Why the Greeks Matter  •  Thomas Cahill   • HISTORY  •  Cahill sketches ancient Greek society and civilization through the lives and words of politicians, playwrights, a poet, philosopher and artist in this eloquent, absorbing tribute. (GRE182, $16.00)
The Ancient Mediterranean  •  Michael Grant   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Grant explores the realms of archaeology, geography, art and economics to sketch this classic portrait of the ancient world, from prehistory through the Roman Imperium, and the influence on western civilization. (MED10, $20.00)
The Balkans, A Short History  •  Mark Mazower   • HISTORY  •  A brief, provocative survey of the complex and often contentious history of the Balkans. With eloquence and insight, Mazower addresses the issues of geography, nationalism and modern nation-building in the region. (BLK28, $13.95)
The City of Falling Angels  •  John Berendt   • HISTORY  •  Berendt's masterful mix of damp aspirations, intrigue and eccentric personalities conveys a certain essence of what it's like to live in modern Venice. (ITL644, $15.00)
The World of Venice  •  Jan Morris   • HISTORY • FAVORITE  •  Morris displays her talent for research, anecdote and well-wrought prose in this spirited history of a beloved city. (ITL12, $16.00)
Venice, a Maritime Republic  •  Frederic C. Lane   • HISTORY  •  Lane focuses on the history of trade, taking in not just on La Serenissima but also Dubrovink and the other cities of its once far-flung domain. (ITL24, $30.00)
Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and History  •  Marina Belozerskaya  •  Kenneth Lapatin   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This lively, illustrated guide covers architecture, painting and sculpture of ancient Greece from the third millennium to the end of the Hellenistic period. With 282 color and 28 black-and-white illustrations. (GRE194, $19.95)
Art and Life in Renaissance Venice  •  Patricia Brown   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This compact volume evokes the spirit of Renaissance Venice with authoritative essays and 120 full-color illustrations. (ITL57, $35.20)
Art of the Byzantine Era  •  David Talbot Rice   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An indispensable classic and a thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art, wide-ranging and literate. Though it focuses on early Christian Constantinople, the book also includes chapters on Sicily, Venice and the Slavonic art of the Balkans. (TKY22, $16.95)
Dinner with Persephone  •  Patricia Storace   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The pleasures and complexities of contemporary Greece, marvelously described by an American poet spending a year there. Storace intertwines her own perceptions with the history of the country and the influence of pop culture on the classical landscape. (GRE28, $15.95)
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed  •  Slavenka Drakulic   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  These short essays capture the absurdity, struggle and day-to-day reality of being a woman in Yugoslavia under Communism. Drakulic is a Croatian journalist, novelist and contributing editor at The Nation. (BLK38, $13.00)
The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader  •  Lawrence Durrell  •  Clint Willis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • COMING IN  •  Durrell's intoxicating reflections on Greece and the Mediterranean. With chapters on Corfu, Rhodes, Cyprus, Sicily, Delphi and Provence. (GRE186, $15.00)
A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece  •  Richard Stoneman   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Poetry, prose and literature over the ages, arranged geographically with an excellent introduction and commentary. Stoneman artfully weaves together hundreds of short excerpts. (GRE06, $19.95)
Croatia, Through Writers' Eyes  •  Barnaby Rogerson   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This collection of stories, tales and travel narratives illuminates the history and culture of Croatia. Including contributions by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell and Fitzroy MacLean. (BLK95, $33.95)
Dead Lagoon, An Aurelio Zen Mystery  •  Michael Dibdin   • MYSTERY  •  Dibdin -- a master of ambiguous settings, shady dealings and fast-paced prose -- returns to Venice in this sixth book in the thoroughly enjoyable Aurelio Zen series. (ITL577, $13.95)
Death at La Fenice  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  The first of the tremendously good Guido Brunetti mysteries, all set in the author's beloved Venice, in which a famous conductor is found dead at the celebrated theater of the title. (ITL555, $13.95)
Italy in Mind  •  Alice Powers   • LITERATURE  •  A terrific collection of some of the best literary writing on Italy, including pieces by Melville, Lawrence, Henry James, Mary McCarthy and many others. (ITL39, $14.95)
The Iliad  •  Homer  •  Robert Fagles   • LITERATURE  •  In the excellent Fagles translation -- here presented in a deluxe paper edition -- Homer's Trojan epic hasn't aged a bit in the last 2,700 years. Take it along to Troy and the Aegean. We also carry Fagles' translation of The Odyssey. (Item no. GRE45, $17.00) (GRE173, $17.00)
The King Must Die  •  Mary Renault   • LITERATURE  •  A novel of Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur and king of Athens, including his Cretan adventures. The first in Renault's trilogy of well-researched page-turners. (GRE23, $15.00)
The Odyssey  •  Homer  •  Robert Fagles   • LITERATURE  •  Translator Robert Fagles captures the poetry and power of The Odyssey in this translation, celebrated for its clarity and expressiveness. (GRE45, $17.00)