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In Europe, Travels Through the Twentieth Century  •  Geert Mak HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 896 PAGES Dutch journalist Mak's big, bold account of Europe on the threshold of the 21st century bridges travel, journalism and history. He reports from Lisbon and Helsinki to Moscow, Istanbul, the D-day beaches and other momentous sites, deftly profiling the people and events that have defined modern Europe. (EUR254, $21.00)
Marco Polo, From Venice to Xanadu  •  Laurence Bergreen BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2008 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES The celebrated biographer of Magellan, James Agee and Al Capone takes a crack at Marco Polo, covering not only his expeditions -- and his encounters with Kublai Khan -- in detail, but also his youth and later years, when his writing catapulted him to 13th-century celebrity status. (EXP49, $18.00)
The Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys, Great Writers on Great Places  •  Klara Glowczewska ANTHOLOGY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES Published on the 20th anniversary of Conde Nast Traveler, this anthology expertly edited and with an introduction by Klara Gloweczeka features 21 transporting tales by Simon Winchester, Pico Iyer, William Dalrymple, Patricia Storace, Edna O'Brien, Jan Morris and other favorite writers. (TVL127, $16.00)
Shadow of the Silk Road  •  Colin Thubron TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 363 PAGES The author of a string of remarkable travel accounts, Thubron -- now in his sixties and as intrepid as ever -- recounts an epic, 7,000-mile trek across the Silk Road from Xi'an to Eastern Turkey in this lyrical, erudite portrait, encompassing Dunhuang, Samarkand and Bukhara, Afghanistan and Iran. (CAS133, $15.99)
Away, A Novel  •  Amy Bloom LITERATURE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Bloom's marvelous fifth novel draws from the real-life particulars of Lillian Leyb, a remarkable Russian immigrant who, settled in New York, took off across America, determined to walk to Siberia and reunite with her young daughter. Bloom draws the reader into 1920s Yiddishkeit New York, Chicago, rough-and-tough Seattle, the Alaskan wilderness in this tender, absorbing tale. The reviewer in Publisher's Weekly raved, "Encompassing prison, prostitution and poetry, Yiddish humor and Yukon settings, Bloom's tale offers linguistic twists, startling imagery, sharp wit and a compelling vision of the past. Bloom has created an extraordinary range of characters, settings and emotions. Absolutely stunning." (USA162, $15.00)
Planet Earth, The Complete Series  •  David Attenborough  •  BBC NATURAL HISTORY •  2007 •  DVD  • 5 PAGES The complete 11-part series as broadcast on BBC and narrated by David Attenborough on five discs: From Pole to Pole, Mountains, Fresh Water, Caves, Deserts, Ice Worlds, Great Plains, Jungles, Shallow Seas, Seasonal Forests and Ocean Deep. This is the original series, not the U.S. adaptation with narration by Sigourney Weaver. Alastair Fothergill and the makers of The Blue Planet present the epic story of life on Earth. Five years in production, over 2000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen across 200 locations, this is a stunning portrait of our planet. (NAT122, $79.98)
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World  •  Lucette Lagnado BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2008 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES A Wall Streeet Journal reporter, Lagnado evokes not just the extraordinary life of her marvelously social father (the "boulevardier of Cairo), but also the now-vanished world of Cario before Gamal Abdel Nasser and the exodus of the Jews. Landing eventually in Brooklyn in the 1960s, it's the nightclubs, markets, synagogues, cemetaries and wheeling-dealing of colonial Cairo that animated her father Leon. (EGY215, $14.99)
Birds of Peru  •  Tom Schulenberg  •  Dan Stotz  •  John O'Neill  •  Dan Lane FIELD GUIDE •  2010 •  PAPER  • 668 PAGES The much-anticipated authoritative field guide by Schulenberg and colleagues at the Field Museum in Chicago, this comprehensive guide, featuring 304 color plates by Dan Lane, covers all 1,792 species of birds recorded in Peru, nearly one-fifth of the world's total. This is the massive project initiated by the much-loved (and dearly missed) Ted Parker. The guide will also be useful for much of western South America, including southeastern Colombia, southern Ecuador, western Brazil, Bolivia, and northern Chile. (PRU55, $39.50)
Make the Most of Your Time on Earth, 1000 Ultimate Travel Experiences  •  Rough Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 608 PAGES The savvy editors at Rough Guides celebrate 25 years with this sumptuously illustrated, essential roundup of remarkable, not-to-be-missed activities, experiences and adventures around the world. (WLD100, $30.00)
In Spite of the Gods, The Strange Rise of Modern India  •  Edward Luce HISTORY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 346 PAGES Luce tackles the challenges and reality of the world's largest democracy with insight and balance in this stimulating portrait of a nation in transition. Luce, Delhi-based Financial Times's South Asia bureau chief from 2001-2005, married to his college sweetheart who is Indian, considers India his second home. (IDA349, $16.00)
Four Seasons in Rome  •  Anthony Doerr TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES • NEW Awarded a fellowship at the American Academy, Doerr captures the romance and challenge of living abroad in this lyrical memoir. Invitingly subtitled "On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World," this short, sweet book reels you in, demanding to be read in one bemused sitting. (ITL840, $14.00)
A Thousand Splendid Suns  •  Khaled Hosseini LITERATURE •  2009 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES Khaled Hosseini's hugely anticipated sequel to The Kite Runner. Like the runaway bestseller, this second novel by the Afghan-American is set in Afghanistan during a time of turmoil. He follows the fate, lives and loves of two young women over three decades during the period of Soviet Occupation. (CAS146, $16.00)
Tales from the Torrid Zone  •  Alexander Frater TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES Alexander Frater (Chasing the Monsoon) steers away from polar climes and snowy wilderness, comfortably confining himself to the wide zone between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Born in Vanuatu of British missionary stock, he's at home among scattered islands and tropical outposts, hop-scotching from the Solomon Islands to the Marquesas and Galapagos to the Caribbean, East Africa and Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Sri Lanka, Burma, Laos, Papua New Guinea and Australia. (PAC172, $14.95)
Love Mumbai  •  Fiona Caulfield GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  BOXED  • 160 PAGES A Hand-Book for the Luxury Vagabond. Rather remarkable, this hand-crafted book, presented in its own satchel of locally woven cloth or khadi, is not just beautiful, it is also a loving, personal guide to favorite shops and spas, weekend escapes, restaurants and experiences in and around the city. This is a venture of Fiona Caulfield, inspired by her own quest for the authentic, local and interesting. (IDA389, $50.00)

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