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Budapest Map
Borch Maps
A convenient map of the city center at a scale of 1:11,000.
(HGR34, $7.95) |
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Culture Smart! Hungary
Brian McLean
GUIDEBOOK
A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(HGR45, $9.95) |
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Eyewitness Guide Budapest
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
Featuring handy maps and solid information on culture and history in addition to a detailed overview of attractions. With hundreds of photographs.
(HGR15, $25.00) |
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Eyewitness Guide Hungary
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A compact illustrated travel guide featuring bright color photography, dozens of excellent maps, background on history and cultlure, and a region-by-region synopsis of Hungary's attractions.
(HGR53, $25.00) |
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Fodor's Budapest's 25 Best
Fodor's Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This slim guide with a pullout map covers what to see, where to go and what to do with style. We also carry Fodor's Prague's 25 Best. (Item CZH02, $11.99)
(HGR61, $11.95) |
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Food Wine Budapest
Carolyn Banfalvi
GUIDEBOOK
This practical guide to Hungarian cuisine includes essential vocabulary lists, trips to the wine regions, restaurant reviews and good descriptions of typical dishes.
(HGR57, $24.95) |
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Lonely Planet Hungarian Phrasebook
Christina Mayer
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(HGR38, $8.99) |
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Rough Guide Hungary
Rough Guide
GUIDEBOOK
A compact, authoritative guide to Hungary, its history, culture and attractions with good local maps. Most of the book is devoted to detailed recommendations for excursions throughout the country, covering in detail both popular and remote destinations.
(HGR31, $21.99) |
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Visible Cities Budapest
Annabel Barber
Emma Roper-Evans
GUIDEBOOK
A detailed, personable guide to the city, featuring a good overview of history, cultural background, suggested walking tours, a map of the city center and practical advice on where to go and what to do.
(HGR43, $27.95) |
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A Concise History of Hungary
Miklos Molnar
Anna Magyar
HISTORY
The author, a Hungarian historian, narrates the history of Hungary from little-known origins to 1988, encompassing the Magyars, the Austro-Hungarian empire and the Soviet era.
(HGR30, $28.99) |
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Budapest, A Cultural History
Bob Dent
HISTORY
A literary, cultural guide to the art, architecture, traditions and history of Budapest.
(HGR49, $19.99) |
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Bury Me Standing
Isabel Fonseca
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This marvelous portrait of the Roma, also known as the Gypsies, offers insight into their music, foods, religions and folk traditions and examines their influential but complex relationship with Eastern Europe.
(EUR09, $14.95) |
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The Hungarians, A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
Paul Lendvai
Ann Major
HISTORY
A journalist who fled Hungary in 1957, Lendvai combines history, scholarship and anecdote in this uncommonly engaging account. With verve and authority, he covers the struggle of the Magyars' against the Tartars, Turks and Russians over the past millennium.
(HGR32, $29.95) |
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The Magic Lantern, The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
Timothy Garton Ash
HISTORY
With a chapter each on Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague, this eyewitness account by an astute journalist and historian shows these vibrant cities during a time of great change.
(GER36, $13.95) |
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The Book of Fathers
Miklos Vamos
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Vamos turns this giddy memoir, following 10 generations of the men in his family, into a chronicle of the culture and politics of Hungary.
(HGR66, $15.95) |
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Celestial Harmonies
Peter Esterhazy
LITERATURE
Esterhazy's intricate, sweeping family saga evokes the personalities, history and aspirations of the Habsburg court.
(HGR58, $16.95) |
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Prague
Arthur Phillips
LITERATURE
Don't be fooled by the title -- this engaging novel is set in Budapest. Five young American expats have settled themselves in what they consider the "second-best" eastern European city, where chance encounters and interactions determine how their lives will -- or won't -- be changed.
(HGR29, $13.95) |
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The Bridge at Andau
James Michener
LITERATURE
The true story of a bridge that became a means of escape to the west during the Hungarian revolt in 1956. It's classic Michener: gripping and action-packed.
(HGR17, $6.99) |
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The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (Down the Danube)
Peter Esterhazy
LITERATURE
A confounding, postmodern novel, this meditation on travel, the Danube, and its history is great fun for those with an appreciation for wordplay and intellectual games.
(HGR11, $19.00) |
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Under the Frog
Tibor Fischer
LITERATURE
Irony and wit pervade this novel set against the backdrop of the short-lived Hungarian revolution of 1956. The author's own experiences are played out by a cast of Kafkaesque characters all looking for a way though the turbulent days before the Russian tanks roll into Budapest.
(HGR12, $17.00) |
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