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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $66, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXKOR02)		  
Moon Handbook South Korea  •  Robert Nilsen
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 800 PAGES
A great resource for the independent traveler, this massively researched, 770-page guidebook features a thorough introduction to the land, history and culture of South Korea, as well as astonishing practical detail on getting around, where to go, and where to stay. It has a few unobtrusive color plates, as well as a small fold-out map on the inside back cover. Recently revised. (KOR02, $23.95)		   Moon Handbook South Korea
Korea's Place in the Sun, A Modern History  •  Bruce Cumings
HISTORY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 527 PAGES
A provocative, spirited history of the two Koreas since World War II for the general reader, highly recommended. It includes a chapter on Korean-Americans, and ends with a lively discussion of Korea's place in the world at the end of the 20th century. New edition. (KOR03, $18.95)		   Korea's Place in the Sun, A Modern History
Korea, A Walk Through the Land of Miracles  •  Simon Winchester
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 336 PAGES
Winchester, in his familiar and engaging style, blends travel, history and reporting in this insightful account of a walk across Korea in 1988. With a map and black-and-white photographs. This paperback edition includes a new forward by the author. (KOR16, $13.99)		   Korea, A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
South Korea Map  •  ITMB
MAP
A convenient folded map of South Korea at the very good scale of 1:550,000 with travel information and an inset of Seoul. Two Sides. 39x27 inches. (KOR09, $12.95)		  



Also Recommended

Korea Map  •  Nelles    •  A detailed, full-color travel map covering both North and South Korea at a scale of 1:1,500,000. (KOR31, $13.95)
 		  
Culture Smart! Korea  •  James Hoare   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (KOR20, $9.95)
 		  
Frommer's Seoul Day by Day  •  Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping, along with dozens of colorful maps. (KOR57, $13.99)
 		  
Insight Guide South Korea  •  Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With stunning, color photography on every page, hundreds of maps and indepth essays on history, culture and attractions. (KOR37, $23.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Korea  •  Andrew Bender   • GUIDEBOOK  •  In its hallmark style, this practical guide to Korea by Lonely Planet features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. With 50 pages on North Korea. (KOR04, $26.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Korean Phrasebook  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handy pocket phrasebook includes pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary. (KOR43, $8.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Seoul  •  Robert Storey   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, informative city guide. Storey has written many of the Asia guides for Lonely Planet. (KOR13, $20.99)
 		  
Pimsleur Quick & Simple Korean  •  Pimsleur Language Method   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  Four audio CDs with eight 30-minute lessons in basic Korean, covering elementary vocabulary and phrases used in travel and everyday situations. (KOR17, $19.95)
 		  
Rough Guide Korea  •  Rough Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to Korea in the hip, literate and very infomative Rough Guide style. (KOR35, $25.99)
 		  
Eastern Sentiments  •  Yi T'aejun   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An insightful, wide-ranging collection of essays by one of Korea's most influential 20th-century writers. (KOR46, $45.00)
 		  
Korea's Twentieth-century Odyssey  •  Michael E. Robinson   • HISTORY  •  Robinson deftly traces the modern history of Korea with admirable brevity. (KOR50, $28.95)
 		  
Meltdown, The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis  •  Mike Chinoy   • HISTORY  •  Meticulously reported and riveting, Meltdown chronicles the failure of Washington's dealings with North Korea during the Bush administration. (KOR48, $17.99)
 		  
Nothing to Envy, Ordinary Lives in North Korea  •  Barbara Demick   • HISTORY  •  Demick follows the lives of six North Koreans over 15 years -- a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population. (KOR44, $16.00)
 		  
Politics and Culture in South and North Korea  •  Dennis Hart   • HISTORY  •  This introduction to the social and political development of North and South Korea places their rival regimes and ideologies side by side. (KOR53, $44.95)
 		  
Rogue Regime, Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea  •  Jasper Becker   • HISTORY  •  A seasoned Asia corespondent, Becker warns of the dangers posed by the North Korean regime in this unflinching overview of the horrors inflicted upon the Korean people by father and son Kim. (KOR19, $17.95)
 		  
The Coldest Winter, America and the Korean War  •  David Halberstam   • HISTORY  •  In a powerful new history of the Korean War, Pulitzer-winning Halberstam combines research, detail and reportorial skill miscalculations of General Douglas MacArthur. (KOR34, $35.00)
 		  
The Korean War, A History  •  Bruce Cumings   • HISTORY  •  Leading Korean War scholar Cumings covers the war from both the Korean and American perspectives, including its impact on Americans at home, in this succinct and authoritative text. An excellent resource for students, scholars and anyone wanting to understand the U.S.'s relationship with North and South Korea. (KOR51, $16.00)
 		  
The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies  •  Michael Breen   • HISTORY  •  An account of modern Korean culture, politics, religion, history and economics by a British journalist. (KOR08, $16.95)
 		  
The Making of Modern Korea  •  Adrian Buzo   • HISTORY  •  A thorough, balanced and engaging history of Korea from 1910 to the present day. (SEA68, $44.95)
 		  
The Two Koreas, A Contemporary History  •  Don Oberdorfer   • HISTORY  •  A history of North and South Korea covering the last 25 years, including information on North Korea's nuclear capabilities. (KOR07, $22.95)
 		  
Korea, As Seen by Magnum Photographers  •  Bruce Cumings  •  Magnum   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  More than 230 full-color images by some of the world's most-renowned photographers capture the natural history, ancient temples, traditions and modern marvels of this dynamic, rapidly developing country. (KOR36, $75.00)
 		  
Pyongyang, A Journey in North Korea  •  Guy Delisle   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  DeLisle captures the absurd, nightmarish and bizarre of life in North Korea under Kim Jong Il in this graphic novel of his two-month-long stint overseeing animation for a French kid's show. (KOR30, $14.95)
 		  
The Aquariums of Pyongyang, Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag  •  Kang Chol-Hwan  •  Pierre Rigoulot   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  At the age of nine Kang Chol-Hwan was sent with his family to a remote concentration camp by the North Korean government, where he remained for the next ten years. Now a journalist in South Korea, Chol-Hwan describes his brutalized childhood in a stark, direct style. (KOR22, $16.95)
 		  
The World Is Bigger Now, An American Journalist's Rescue from Captivity in North Korea  •  Euna Lee   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  One of the television journalists famously detained in North Korea for four months in 2009 tells her story of imprisonment and release in this memoir interwoven with commentary on the state of world politics. (KOR52, $25.00)
 		  
Under The Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader, North Korea and the Kim Dynasty  •  Bradley K. Martin   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A detailed portrait of Kim Il Sung and his son and successor Kim Jong-Il, their monstrous egos, appetites and monuments, and of the relationship of North Korea to the rest of the world, by a Newsweek bureau chief. (KOR18, $22.99)
 		  
The Calligrapher's Daughter, A Novel  •  Eugenia Kim   • LITERATURE  •  Kim sets the story of Najin, a young woman searching for freedom, against the tumultuous backdrop of early 20th-century Korea and the Japanese occupation of an ancient land. (KOR47, $16.00)
 		  
Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia  •  Mark Brazil   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Brazil's comprehensive guide, featuring 234 color plates, includes Japan, Taiwan and the islands along with the adjacent areas of Asia from Kamchatka to Korea. (JPN332, $39.95)
 		  
 
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