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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $64, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSWZ22)		  
Insight Guide Switzerland  •  Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES
This handsome guide gives a profusely illustrated overview of Switzerland, featuring concise essays by well-regarded authors on history, politics and culture, hundreds of photos and maps, and some practical information. (SWZ15, $24.99)		   Insight Guide Switzerland
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)		   Killing Dragons, The Conquest of the Alps
La Place de la Concorde Suisse  •  John McPhee
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1994 •  PAPER  • 150 PAGES
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 -- a country twice the size of New Jersey with a much smaller population and an army of 650,000. What unfolds is an irreverent portrait of Switzerland and the Swiss mindset. (SWZ14, $16.00)		   La Place de la Concorde Suisse
Switzerland Map  •  Michelin Travel Publications
MAP
A colorful, shaded relief map of Switzerland at a scale of 1:400,000. Also includes Northwest Italy, including Lake Como. One Side. 39X47 inches. (SWZ11, $12.95)		   Switzerland Map



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Geneva Map  •  ITMB    •  A detailed traveler's map of Geneva, Switzerland, at a scale of 1:6,000. (SWZ51, $8.95)
 		  
Zurich Map  •  ITMB    •  A map of Zurich at a scale of 1:8,000. (SWZ47, $8.95)
 		  
Swiss Bernese Oberland  •  Philip & Loretta Alspach   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A brief, illustrated guide to mountains, lakes and villages of the Bernese Oberland. With 50 color pictures, maps and good information on food, drink and the mountain villages of Interlaken, Grindelwald, Wengen, Murren and Kandersteg. (SWZ38, $18.95)
 		  
Walking in the Valais  •  Kev Reynolds   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive walking guide to Switzerland's Pennine Alps. (SWZ29, $22.95)
 		  
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, $37.99)
 		  
A Tramp Abroad  •  Mark Twain  •  David Eggers  •  Kerry Driscoll   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Written 11 years after Innocents Abroad, this is Twain's second foray into European travel. Filled with his characteristic wit and humorous observations, it documents his journeys through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy. Now with an introduction by Dave Eggers. (EUR78, $14.95)
 		  
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, $14.95)
 		  
Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860-69  •  Edward Whymper   • EXPLORATION  •  Edward Wymper's vivid account of Victorian-era mountaineering, a classic, captures the geography, beauty and allure of the Alps. (ALP02, $16.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
A Farewell to Arms  •  Ernest Hemingway   • LITERATURE  •  Set in snowy Switzerland and the rainy Italian Lake Country during World War I, this semi-autobiographical novel chronicles the romance between a British nurse and an American ambulance driver. (ITL384, $16.00)
 		  
Hotel du Lac  •  Anita Brookner   • LITERATURE  •  Funny, stylish and spellbinding, Brookner's novel tracks the story of a romance novelist, not quite finding peace and quiet at the quiet luxury of Hotel du Lac in Switzerland. (SWZ05, $13.95)
 		  
I'm Not Stiller  •  Max Frisch   • LITERATURE  •  A masterpiece of post-WWII fiction about a man who claims not to be himself. (SWZ08, $27.95)
 		  
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, $19.00)
 		  
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  •  Lars Svensson   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps. (FG47, $29.95)
 		  
 
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