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Alsace & Black Forest Biking   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Michelin Green Guide Alsace, Lorraine, Champagne  •   Michelin Travel Publications
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 532 PAGES
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)
  Michelin Green Guide Alsace, Lorraine, Champagne
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)
  Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages
The German Way  •  Hyde Flippo
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1997 •  PAPER  • 138 PAGES • COMING IN APRIL
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)
  The German Way
Alsace, 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. One Side. 52x40 inches. (FRN158, $12.95)
  Alsace, Lorraine Map 516
 

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Southern Germany Map  •   Hallwag   • COMING IN APRIL  •  A detailed color map of southern Germany from Bavaria to the Rheinland. (GER29, $15.95)
 
 
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, $18.00)
 
 
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), which takes the young adventurer to the Iron Gates, which divide the Carpathian mountains from the Balkans. (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 • 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)
 
 


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