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SMITHSONIAN JOURNEYS
Azores Archipelago: Island Outposts in the Atlantic
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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for $78, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXPGL25) |
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Bradt Guide Azores
David Sayers
GUIDEBOOK
2006
PAPER
248 PAGES
A comprehensive, practical guide to the Azores. The author David Sayers pays particular attention to the natural history and especially the botany of these lush Atlantic islands, located two hours flying time west of Lisbon. With eight pages of color photographs and 33 maps, including plans of Ponta Delgada (Sao Miguel), Angra do Herofsmo (Terceira), and Horta (Faial). Second edition.
(PGL29, $21.95) |
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Fodor's Lisbon's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
2008
PAPER
128 PAGES
This slim guide to Lisbon includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing -- all in a slipcover.
(PGL40, $11.95) |
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Twice Round the Loggerhead, The Culture of Whaling in the Azores
Bruce Halabisky
Lance Lee
HISTORY
2000
HARD COVER
124 PAGES
A loving, richly illustrated account, by two American apprentices, of building an Azorean whaleboat. With essays on the history and folklore of traditional whaling and boat-building. With archival and contemporary photographs, line drawings and 60 watercolor illustrations by Breton marine artist Yvon Le Corre.
(PGL37, $35.00) |
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Azores Map
Turinta Maps
2002
MAP
A nicely detailed folded map of the islands with travel information at a scale of 1:75,000. Two Sides. 32x45 inches.
(PGL36, $14.95) |
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Eyewitness Guide Lisbon
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A compact, illustrated guide to the city featuring excellent neighborhood maps and hundreds of color photographs. It also includes chapters on the surrounding areas and Lisbon's coast.
(PGL04, $20.00) |
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Eyewitness Guide Portugal with Madeira & the Azores
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A compact, visual travel guide featuring hundreds of photographs and drawings, an excellent overview of the culture and history, and good information about where to go and what to do. With many excellent maps.
(PGL05, $25.00) |
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Lonely Planet Portuguese Phrasebook
Clara De MacEdo Vitorino
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A handy pocket phrasebook for Portuguese basics, covering pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(PGL34, $8.99) |
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Moon Handbook Atlantic Canada
Mark Morris
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive guide to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. With regional maps and detailed descriptions of St. John's and other points of interest, along with an overview of the people, wildlife and history of the region.
(CAN02, $19.95) |
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The Food of Portugal
Jean Anderson
FOOD
An award-winning cookbook featuring the cuisine of Portugal and background on Portuguese culture. Sure to please the palates of tourists interested in Portuguese food, and of emigrants in search of that authentic taste of home.
(PGL10, $19.95) |
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A Concise History of Portugal
David Birmingham
HISTORY
A straightforward and informative account of Portugal from prehistory to its zenith as a seafaring power and current day realities.
(PGL01, $24.99) |
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A Traveller's History of Portugal
Ian Robertson
HISTORY
A lively, admirably concise survey from prehistory to the present, great for travelers to Portugal who would like an overview of the country's history and culture.
(PGL32, $14.95) |
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This Republic of Suffering, Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust
HISTORY
Dr. Faust, President of Harvard University, explores in fascinating detail how the Civil War's unprecedented bloodshed changed America's cultural, political and spiritual attitudes towards death.
(USA179, $15.95) |
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Prince Henry "the Navigator," A Life
Peter E. Russell
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A complicated, rewarding portrait, and the first biography of this empire-minded Portuguese prince in more than a hundred years.
(PGL25, $25.00) |
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Theatre of Fish, Travels Through Newfoundland and Labrador
John Gimlette
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A rollicking account of Gimlette's adventures in Newfoundland and Labrador on the trail of a great-great grandfather. It's a witty tale, soaked in fishy history, myth, lore and incident.
(CND234, $15.00) |
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A Small Death in Lisbon
Robert Wilson
MYSTERY
Set in Lisbon in 1941 and 1999, this award-winning mystery intertwines a present day murder, some unsavory arms production, and smuggling in Nazi Germany. Be warned, there are some graphic passages dealing with the horrors of war and concentration camps.
(PGL22, $7.99) |
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The Letter of Marque
Patrick O'Brian
LITERATURE
The 12th (and perhaps the most satisfying) of O'Brian's series combines the personal and geopolitical as Aubrey comes to Maturin's rescue in the Baltics.
(ATL20, $14.95) |
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The Stone Raft
Jose Saramago
LITERATURE
A geological fantasy from the Nobel Prize-winning author, in which the Iberian Peninsula becomes unmoored from France.
(PGL46, $14.00) |
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Island Life
Alfred Russel Wallace
NATURAL HISTORY
A popular account of the natural history of island groups by Darwin's contemporary and co-presented of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
(NAT27, $18.00) |
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Volcanoes, Crucibles of Change
Richard Fisher
NATURAL HISTORY
A complete primer for the volcano lover, this heavily illustrated book covers types of volcanoes and eruptions, worldwide distribution and the physics of their formation.
(GEO02, $29.95) |
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A Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife: Marine Mammals, Seabirds, Fish and Other Sea Life
Noble S. Proctor
Patrick J. Lynch
FIELD GUIDE
A comprehensive pocket guide to commonly encountered marine mammals, seabirds and other marine life of Northeastern North America, from North Carolina to Newfoundland and the Canadian Maritimes.
(NAM24, $19.95) |
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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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Field Guide to the Birds of the Atlantic Islands
Tony Clarke
Chris Orgill
FIELD GUIDE
COMING IN
A comprehensive field guide to 450 species of birds, both resident and migrant, of the Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores and Cape Verde.
(ATL23, $29.95) |
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Smithsonian Handbook: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
Mark Carwardine
FIELD GUIDE
In the trademark, graphic Eyewitness style, this sturdy guidebook colorfully describes the world's cetaceans with numerous illustrations, range maps, fluke drawings and a few paragraphs on each species.
(FG02, $20.00) |
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