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Michelin Green Guide Alsace, Lorraine, Champagne
Michelin Travel Publications
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 532 PAGES
CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
A thorough introduction to Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne in the classic Michelin style, featuring brief descriptions of all the major attractions, along with fantastic maps.
(FRN157, $21.95)
Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
ART & ARCHITECTURE 1995 PAPER 175 PAGES
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A slim encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages. This volume in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series features hundreds of drawings and color illustrations, a brief chronology and more information than you would imagine between its slim covers. Take it along to gain a better appreciation of the Middle Ages and its legacy in Europe.
(MED07, $12.95)
The German Way
Hyde Flippo
CULTURAL PORTRAIT 1997 PAPER 138 PAGES
A slim volume on the German-speaking cultural psyche, this highly readable, often humorous account of the cultural quirks and social etiquette of the German-speaking nations is a great resource for anyone seeking insight into why the Germans do what they do. Separate chapters, arranged alphabetically by topic, make for a quick study on the complexities of Teutonic customs.
(GER12, $15.95)
Alsace et Lorraine Map 516
Michelin Travel Publications
MAP
An up-to-date regional map at the very good scale of 1:200,000 published by Michelin. All of France is covered in 21 regional maps. One Side. 52x40 inches.
(FRN158, $11.95)
Southern Germany Map
Hallwag
A detailed color map of southern Germany from Bavaria to the Rheinland.
(GER29, $12.95)
Strasbourg Map
IGN
A city map of Strasbourg at a scale of 1:10,000.
(FRN292, $9.95)
Cycle Touring In France
Stephen Fox
GUIDEBOOK
A compact, practical guide to eight week and two-week bicycle tours, including routes through Brittany, Picardy, Alsace, Auvergne, Languedoc, Provence, Dordogne, Lot, theAlps and Pyrenees.
(FRN686, $19.95)
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)
Traveller's Wine Guide to France
Christopher Fielden
GUIDEBOOK
A slim but very informative, lavishly illustrated vineyard-by-vineyard guide to the wines and wine-producing regions of France.
(FRN13, $22.00)
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, $17.95)
A Concise History of Germany
Mary Fulbrook
HISTORY
This essential short history of Germany -- a whirlwind survey in less than 300 pages -- explores the relationships between social, political and cultural factors in this land located in the center of Europe.
(GER13, $26.99)
The Burgermeister's Daughter, Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town
Steven Ozment
HISTORY
Meticulously researched and absorbing, this narrative by a Harvard historian traces the legal battle of the daughter of a well-to-do family who was thrown out of her home and disinherited in 1525.
(GER25, $13.00)
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 Rhine, Culture and Landscape at the Heart of Europe
Roland Recht
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This beautifully illustrated, oversized survey of the history, geography and culture of the Rhine shows cities, villages and sights along the river from its source in the Alps to the North Sea.
(GER120, $75.00)
The Thirty Years' War
Geoffrey Parker
HISTORY
A scholarly history of the major European conflict of the 17th century. Among the outcomes were the annexation of Alsace by France, the annexation of Pomerania by Sweden and the legalization of Calvinism in Germany.
(EUR115, $39.95)
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Fermor effortlessly interweaves anecdote, history and culture in this exuberant account of a walk from Holland, up the Rhine and down the Danube in 1933, through Germany, Prague and Austria. The now-accomplished author reflects on adventures 40 years past with perspective and a sweet nostalgia. The adventure continues in Between the Woods and Water (CEU31).
(CEU30, $16.95)
Adventures on the Wine Route, A Wine Buyer's Tour of France
Kermit Lynch
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A delightful, warmly anecdotal book, highly recommended for anyone touring the wine regions of France. The book brings the domains and appellations of French wine into full-blown life, and Lynch's portraits of the grand personalities who make wine are priceless.
(FRN72, $18.00)
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)
Beneath the Wheel
Hermann Hesse
LITERATURE
A short novel, set in a village in the Black Forest not unlike where Hesse was born.
(GER105, $14.00)
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)
The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald
LITERATURE
Set in the Age of Goethe, this exquisitely written short novel is a fictional account of the life of the Romantic poet Novalis. It paints a vivid picture of German intellectual and mercantile life in the late 1700s.
(GER21, $13.00)
Birds of Europe
Lars Svensson
Dan Zetterstrom
Killian Mullarney
FIELD GUIDE
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COMING IN OCTOBER
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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