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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)
Switzerland Map
HEMA Maps
MAP
A colorful, shaded relief map of Switzerland at a scale of 1:303,000. With city plans of Basel Bern, Geneva and Zurich. Printed in Germany, the crisp, bright cartography is by Falk Verlag. Also includes Northwest Italy, including Lake Como. One Side. 39X47 inches.
(SWZ11, $12.95)
Culture Smart! Switzerland, A Quick Guide to Customs And Etiquette
Kendall Maycock
GUIDEBOOK
A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice.
(SWZ58, $9.95)
Fodor's Munich's 25 Best
Citypack
GUIDEBOOK
This slim guide to Munich includes a separate map of the center of the city and a 128-page pocket book with essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing.
(GER167, $11.95)
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, $15.00)
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, $34.99)
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.
(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)
Killing Dragons, The Conquest of the Alps
Fergus Fleming
EXPLORATION
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)
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, $15.00)
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)
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
Dan Zetterstrom
Killian Mullarney
FIELD GUIDE
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A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent.
(FG47, $29.95)
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