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Eyewitness Guide Great Britain
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2010 FLEXI-BOUND 720 PAGES
With its 1,400 photos, maps and excellent introductory chapters, this guide is both a general introduction to Great Britain and a region-by-region look at its attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(GBR01, $30.00)
Fodor's Dublin's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK 2009 PAPER 128 PAGES
A shirt-pocket guide to Dublin, this slim book includes an excellent map of the city's center and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing, all in a slipcover. A perfect guide for a brief visit.
(IRE30, $11.95)
The Story of England
Christopher Hibbert
HISTORY 1992 PAPER 224 PAGES
Beautifully illustrated with color pictures, chronological charts, royal genealogies, and maps, this popular history of English politics, economics, and culture from the Neolithic to the 1990s is an excellent traveler's companion. Hibbert, a masterful storyteller, relates anecdotes that bring history to life in this concise, highly readable introduction to England's past.
(GBR02, $14.95)
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
W.B. Yeats
LITERATURE 2004 PAPER 380 PAGES
This volume combines two books of folklore edited by the Nobel Prize-winning poet who spearheaded the Celtic Renaissance in the early 20th century. These stories of changelings, ghosts, mermaids, demons, saints, priests and fairies are enchanting and entertaining. Originally published in 1918.
(IRE04, $15.00)
Great Britain and Ireland Map
HEMA Maps
MAP
A nicely detailed map showing both Great Britain and Ireland at a scale of 1:750,000. Two Sides. 56x39 inches.
(GBR31, $10.95)
Fodor's Edinburgh's 25 Best
Hilary Weston
GUIDEBOOK
This handy pocket guide and map contains essential in-formation on Edinburgh's highlights, ideal for a short visit to the city.
(SCT131, $11.95)
Fodor's Exploring Ireland
Lindsay Hunt
GUIDEBOOK
With its many photographs, great introductory chapters and practical travel information, this illustrated guide has got what you need.
(IRE28, $22.00)
Fodor's London's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
This slim guide to London (with handy full-color maps) has everything you need to know for a short visit to the city, including recommended sightseeing, restaurants, hotels and shops.
(GBR08, $11.95)
Highlanders, A History of the Highland Clans
Fitzroy MacLean
HISTORY
A marvelous storyteller, Maclean recounts the origins, uprisings and personalities of Highland Scotland from Celtic legends to the bloody defeat of Bonnie Prince Charles at Culloden Moors in this vivid, beautifully illustrated history.
(SCT33, $35.00)
Ireland, A Concise History
Conor Cruise O'Brien
HISTORY
With its lively, even-handed tone and hundreds of photographs, this grand history by scholar and statesman O'Brien conveys the essence of the Irish experience.
(IRE20, $19.95)
Most Beautiful Villages of Ireland
Hugh Palmer
Christopher Fitz-Simon
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This handsome oversize picture book is an illustrated portrait of Ireland. Hundreds of color photographs accompany lively essays by Christopher Fitz-Simon.
(IRE136, $40.00)
Scotland, A Concise History
Fitzroy MacLean
Magnus Linklater
HISTORY
With 250 well-integrated illustrations, this lively, authoritative history covers the romantic figures and bloody battles from the early clans up to the present.
(SCT15, $19.95)
Stone Voices, The Search for Scotland
Neal Ascherson
HISTORY
Ascherson writes with verve and insight on the centuries-old impulse toward nationhood in Scotland in this absorbing portrait, interweaving history with archaeology, myth and his own interviews and travels.
(SCT66, $27.00)
The Age of Shakespeare
Francois Laroque
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This pocket-size encyclopedia, an excellent introduction to Elizabethan England, presents Shakespeare, his life, times and legacy in concise essays and well-chosen illustrations.
(GBR11, $12.95)
The Crofter and the Laird
John McPhee
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
FAVORITE
McPhee packs up his family and returns to his ancestral land on the Isle of Colonsay for a year in this lyrical, appreciative portrait of place and traditional ways of life in the Hebrides.
(SCT23, $16.00)
The Mother Tongue, English and How it Got That Way
Bill Bryson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An indispensable guide to the language that divides us, this book is an informative linguistic history which showcases Bryson's wry wit.
(GBR15, $14.99)
The Truth About the Irish
Terry Eagleton
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An irreverent A-to-Z guide to all things Irish by a native son and shrewd comic commentator, who casts aside many myths, starting with the first entry - A for alcohol (the Irish have the lowest per capita consumption of alcohol in the E.U., after Greece and Italy).
(IRE167, $14.95)
In Search of England
H.V. Morton
James Morris
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The much-beloved, enduring account of Morton's ramblings through the English countryside in the early days of the motorcar. Morton charmingly mixes a deep appreciation of the art, culture and history of the place with his own keen observations.
(GBR368, $16.00)
Kingdom by the Sea
Paul Theroux
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Theroux details his coastal journey around the British Isles in 1982 in this insightful book, which displays his occasional ill temper alongside his celebrated ability to combine social history with a good old-fashioned traveler's tale.
(GBR09, $14.95)
McCarthy's Bar, A Journey of Discovery in Ireland
Pete McCarthy
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A droll account of McCarthy's encounters on a bar-hopping jaunt from Cork along the west coast to Donegal. His motto, assiduously followed, was never to pass up a bar with his name on it!
(IRE168, $15.95)
For the Love of Ireland, A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
Susan Cahill
ANTHOLOGY
A literary anthology featuring famous Irish writers such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Frank McCourt and Samuel Beckett.
(IRE77, $15.95)
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters
MYSTERY
In this historical mystery, 11th century monk and head of Shrewsbury Abbey Brother Cadfael travels to a small Welsh village to retrieve the relics of St. Winifred. A murder ensues and Cadfael must investigate.
(GBR166, $6.99)
Dubliners
James Joyce
LITERATURE
James Joyce's unsurpassed collection of short stories depicting ordinary life in Dublin among the lower middle class -- a milestone in the history of prose fiction.
(IRE15, $11.00)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
LITERATURE
A slender, terribly witty novel from the incomparable Dame Muriel. Miss Jean Brodie is an unorthodox teacher at an Edinburgh girls' boarding school who wins the hearts and minds of her students, only to discover that girls from the provinces are ill-prepared for progressive thought.
(SCT42, $12.95)
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)
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