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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $67, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXALP51)		  
Walking in the Alps  •  Kev Reynolds
GUIDEBOOK •  2000 •  PAPER  • 496 PAGES
A nicely illustrated, authoritative guide to hiking throughout the Alps, organized geographically. Reynolds covers a range of activities from day hikes to the classic hut-to-hut mountain walks. With color photographs and good local maps. Intended as a planning guide, the book is an excellent general overview of the region and hikes from coastal France across to Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Austria. (SWZ44, $22.95)		   Walking in the Alps
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
Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier  •  Brenda Fowler
ARCHAEOLOGY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 313 PAGES
The complete story of the 1991 discovery of the frozen corpse of a prehistoric man in the Tyrol. A major archaeological find, the "Iceman" sparked off a media frenzy, and caused a significant stir in the scientific community and much ruckus between Austria and Italy over who actually had the rights. (ALP20, $20.00)		   Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier
Alps Map  •  Freytag & Berndt
2010 •  MAP
A detailed travel map of the Alps and surrounding areas, including portions of Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France, at a scale of 1:500,000. This handy regional map extends from Stuttgart and Brno (Czech Republic) to Lyon and Avigon, Florence nad Sienna, Trieste and Zagreb. Two Sides. 35x46 inches. (ALP07, $14.95)		   Alps Map



Also Recommended

Venice Map  •  Borch Maps    •  A colorful, detailed city map of Venice, perfect for finding your way around the famously labyrinthine streets and canals. (ITL26, $8.95)
 		  
Western Austria Tyrol Map  •  Freytag & Berndt    •  A colorful regional map of western Austria, including the Tyrolean region. (AST05, $11.95)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Austria  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This superb guide to all of Austria features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. (AST59, $25.00)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Munich & the Bavarian Alps  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This comprehensive, illustrated guide is filled with excellent maps, hundreds of photographs and succinct overviews of history, culture and sightseeing. (GER119, $25.00)
 		  
Fodor's Venice's 25 Best  •  Citypack   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN MARCH  •  This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information. (ITL106, $12.99)
 		  
Walking in the Dolomites  •  Gillian Price   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive walker's guide to the Dolomites geared to a wide variety of difficulty levels. Illustrated with photographs and maps. (ITL289, $19.95)
 		  
The Austrians, A Thousand-Year Odyssey  •  Gordon Brook-Shepherd   • HISTORY  •  Detailed, impressively researched and readable, this book is a wide-ranging narrative history of the last 1,000 years of Austria and the Austrian character. (AST10, $23.00)
 		  
The German Way  •  Hyde Flippo   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • BEST SELLER  •  This clever A-to-Z guide to quirks, attitudes, behavior and customs is a terrific resource for travelers seeking insight into why the Germans, Austrians and Swiss do what they do. (GER12, $17.00)
 		  
The Germans  •  Gordon A. Craig   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A gifted historian, Craig explores the complex paradoxes of German identity in this masterly portrait of German life, past and present, with chapters on religion, money, Jews, women, literature and society, Berlin and language. (GER10, $18.00)
 		  
The Habsburgs, Embodying Empire  •  Andrew Wheatcroft   • HISTORY  •  The Habsburgs ruled over more diverse peoples and cultures than any other European dynasty since the Roman period. With skillful scholarship and engaging style, Wheatcroft reveals the history of this family of eccentric monarchs. (AST11, $17.00)
 		  
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, $40.80)
 		  
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)
 		  
Ludwig II of Bavaria, The Swan King  •  Christopher McIntosh   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  This lively biography of King Ludwig II, builder of the wild castles of Bavaria, chronicles in fascinating detail Ludwig's rise to the throne at age 18, his devotion to music and architecture and his death under questionable circumstances at the age of 41. (GER27, $23.00)
 		  
Schlepping Through the Alps, My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd  •  Sam Apple   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A hilarious and touching exploration of history, tradition and sheep. This account of travels in Austria with Hans Breuer, a shepherd who sings Yiddish folk songs to his sheep, is admittedly a comic quest, but it also delves into some of the darker corners of Austria's history in World War II. (AST74, $16.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
The World of Venice  •  Jan Morris   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  Morris displays her talent for research, anecdote and well-wrought prose in this spirited history of a beloved city. (ITL12, $18.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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, $13.99)
 		  
Homestead  •  Rosini Lippi   • LITERATURE  •  Set firmly in a small village in the Austrian Alps, these 12 interlinking stories are almost ethnographic in their rich detail of small town life. The stories range from the turn-of-the-century to the present, accurately charting change in the remote village. (ALP11, $13.95)
 		  
In a German Pension  •  Katherine Mansfield   • LITERATURE  •  Mansfield's first published work, which pierces the bourgeoisie at a Bavarian spa town in 13 interconnected stories. Frau Fischer, the narrator, is wonderful -- and entertaining. (GER134, $13.95)
 		  
La Nouvelle Heloise  •  Jean-Jacques Rousseau   • LITERATURE  •  Rousseau may be best known for his political philosophy, but in this novel we see his softer side. This is the passionate story told through the letters of two lovers in a small town at the foot of the Alps. (SWZ19, $33.95)
 		  
Medusa, An Aurelio Zen Mystery  •  Michael Dibdin   • MYSTERY  •  In this ninth book in the thoroughly enjoyable Aurelio Zen series, our worldly detective investigates a mysterious corpse in a long-abandoned military tunnel in the Dolomites. (ITL576, $13.95)
 		  
Solo Faces  •  James Salter   • LITERATURE  •  The story of an American climber who, dissatisfied with his everyday life, travels to the Alps of southern France to tackle mountain peaks. The prose is glorious and the mountain-climbing scenes are as vivid as they get. (ALP14, $15.00)
 		  
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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