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We feature a handpicked selection of travel guides, maps, literature, books on art, nature and culture, designed to help you get more out of your travels to the Ukraine . Order an essential package, and we'll ship any additional items for free.
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Hippocrene Language and Travel Guide to Ukraine
Linda Hodges George Chumak
GUIDEBOOK 2004 PAPER 387 PAGES
COMING IN SEPTEMBER
An insightful, personal travel guide to the region with chapters on Kiev, Crimea and Odessa, as well as an overview of the history of Ukraine. It opens with a chapter entitled "Developing a Ukrainian Perspective" and includes key phrases and language instruction throughout the book. This is the guide to getting the most out of an extended visit. Fourth edition.
(RUS52, $18.95)
Borderland, A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Anna Reid
HISTORY 2000 PAPER 272 PAGES
A lively survey of the traditions and history of Ukraine, organized geographically. Reid, who was for three years the Kiev correspondent for the Economist, combines first-person reports, interviews and history in this insightful portrait of the region.
(RUS84, $17.00)
Return to Ukraine
Ania Savage
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2000 HARD COVER 272 PAGES
An engaging account of a return journey to Ukraine by a journalist who fled the country with her family in 1944. Savage interweaves history, modern travelogue and personal anecdote.
(RUS126, $29.95)
Ukraine Map
MapLink
MAP
A map of Ukraine, at a scale of 1:1,200,000.
(RUS86, $9.95)
Kiev Map
Freytag & Berndt
COMING IN JULY
A detailed street map (1:15,000).
(UKR17, $11.95)
Bradt Guide Ukraine
Andrew Evans
GUIDEBOOK
This guide in the popular British series features comprehensive practical information and provides a short section on the country's history and culture. With over 30 maps.
(UKR12, $24.99)
Culture Smart! Ukraine
Anna Shevchenko
GUIDEBOOK
A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(UKR14, $9.95)
Black Sea
Neal Ascherson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Ascherson weaves his own travels and impressions with a fascinating account of the history of the region in this skillful portrait.
(RUS46, $18.00)
Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917
Michael F. Hamm
HISTORY
From medieval center to important city in Imperial Russia, this scholarly book is a wonderfully informative cultural history of the city and especially its 19th-century legacy.
(RUS56, $34.95)
The Cossacks, An Illustrated History
John Ure
HISTORY
In this lively, beautifully illustrated overview, a career diplomat (and frequent visitor to the region) explores the history of the Cossacks in Southern Russia and central Asia and their role in world affairs.
(RUS135, $45.00)
The Ukrainians, Unexpected Nation
Andrew Wilson
HISTORY
An outstanding guide to modern identity, politics and history in Ukraine, highly recommended for an understanding of the geopolitics of the region and, especially, uneasy relations with mother Russia.
(RUS125, $19.00)
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
LITERATURE
The very modern (and very funny) tale of a young man and the search for his Ukrainian heritage. Foer plumbs the humor and tragedy of the American protagonist on a journey back to Ukraine.
(RUS168, $13.95)
Russka
Edward Rutherfurd
LITERATURE
In this absorbing, complex novel Rutherfurd transforms Russian history into an epic saga. The bestseller follows the fate of interconnected families over 800 years. Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, Pushkin and Rasputin all make appearances.
(RUS175, $19.00)
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel
LITERATURE
An authoritative edition of Isaac Babel's powerful short fiction, including his early Red Cavalry Stories and The Odessa Tales.
(RUS171, $16.95)
The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy
Peter Constantine
Cynthia Ozick
LITERATURE
A fresh translation of Tolstoy's 1863 semi-autobiographical novel about a young Muscovite and his military adventures in the rough and ready Caucasus. The book is, in part, a portrait of the Cossacks -- and an account of falling in love.
(RUS241, $11.95)
The Fixer
Bernard Malamud
LITERATURE
Set in Tsarist Russia, this well-known novel by Malamud tells the story of a young Jewish boy from Kiev wrongly accused of murder.
(RUS271, $15.00)
The Twelve Chairs
Ilia Arnoldovich Ilf
Yevgeny Petrov
LITERATURE
In this classic satiric novel, an unemployed con artist and a former nobleman in post-revolution Soviet Russia travel from Moscow to Georgia in search of chairs containing hidden jewels.
(RUS356, $22.00)
The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov
Marian Schwartz
LITERATURE
Set on the eve of war in Kiev in 1918, the royalist Turbin family is at the center of Bulgakov's first novel, newly translated.
(RUS58, $27.00)
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