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Michelin Green Guide French Alps •   Michelin Travel Publications
GUIDEBOOK • 2009 • PAPER • 448 PAGES
A compact, practical guide to the region in the classic Michelin style, organized alphabetically by town and featuring brief descriptions of all the major attractions. The dozens of local maps are especially useful. Not just a driving guide, it includes footpaths and suggested hikes from Mount Blanc to the Grand Canyon du Verdon. With a brief section of practical travel information. (FRN197, $21.99)

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)

Rhone-Alpes Map 523 •   Michelin Travel Publications
MAP
An up-to-date regional map at a scale of 1:200,000 published by Michelin. The double-sided map covers the region from Montreux and Geneve south to Chaminox, Mount Blanc, Grenoble and west to the Rhone from Lyon, St-Etienne and Valence. One Side. 39 X 52 inches. (FRN255, $12.95)

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	Michelin Green Guide French Alps • Michelin Travel Publications GUIDEBOOK • 2009 • PAPER • 448 PAGES A compact, practical guide to the region in the classic Michelin style, organized alphabetically by town and featuring brief descriptions of all the major attractions. The dozens of local maps are especially useful. Not just a driving guide, it includes footpaths and suggested hikes from Mount Blanc to the Grand Canyon du Verdon. With a brief section of practical travel information. (FRN197, $21.99)
	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)
	Rhone-Alpes Map 523 • Michelin Travel Publications MAP An up-to-date regional map at a scale of 1:200,000 published by Michelin. The double-sided map covers the region from Montreux and Geneve south to Chaminox, Mount Blanc, Grenoble and west to the Rhone from Lyon, St-Etienne and Valence. One Side. 39 X 52 inches. (FRN255, $12.95)

	Chamonix, Mont Blanc Massif (East) • IGN • COMING IN OCTOBER • This fabulously detailed topographic map (scale 1:25,000) shows the eastern portion of the Mont Blanc group. (FRN314, $16.95)
	Geneva Map • ITMB • A detailed traveler's map of Geneva, Switzerland, at a scale of 1:6,000. (SWZ51, $8.95)
	Walking in the Alps • Kev Reynolds • GUIDEBOOK • A nicely illustrated, authoritative guide to hiking throughout the Alps. Reynolds covers a range of activities from day hikes to the classic hut-to-hut mountain walks. (SWZ44, $22.95)
	The Food of France • Waverly Root • FOOD • An evocative and beautifully written survey of French food. First published in 1958 and revised in the mid-1970s, this book covers the important regions of French cuisine by dividing them into domains of Butter (northern France), Fat (Alsace), and Oil (the south). (FRN17, $18.00)
	La Place de la Concorde Suisse • John McPhee • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 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. (SWZ14, $16.00)
	The Road from the Past, Traveling through History in France • Ina Caro • HISTORY • Time travel through France by way of its finest castles, chateaux, cathedrals and monasteries. This unusual travelogue is an invaluable companion for traveling in Paris, southern France, the Dordogne and the Loire Valley, combining personal observation with large doses of well-presented history. (FRN03, $17.00)
	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. (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)
	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)
	France in Mind • Alice Powers • ANTHOLOGY • This wonderful selection of essays, excerpts and stories filters the experience of being in France through the lens of 33 British and American writers. (FRN384, $14.00)
	Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus • Mary Shelley • LITERATURE • This classic gothic novel, set around Lake Geneva, was written in 1816. (SWZ10, $7.95)
	Hotel du Lac • Anita Brookner • LITERATURE • The spellbinding, prize-winning novel of a romance novelist whose life begins to resemble her plots when she visits a luxurious hotel in the Alps. (SWZ05, $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)
	Glacier Ice • Austin Post • Edward R. LaChapelle • NATURAL HISTORY • A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers by two devoted men of ice. Ed LaChapelle�s text is paired with Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers from Alaska and Chile to Switzerland, the Himalayas and other parts of the world. (SCI07, $27.95)
	Birds of Europe • Lars Svensson • Dan Zetterstrom • Killian Mullarney • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE • Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, this second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps. (FG47, $29.95)