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Ukraine   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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)
  Hippocrene Language and Travel Guide to Ukraine
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)
  Borderland, A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
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)
  Return to Ukraine
Ukraine Map  •   MapLink
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A map of Ukraine, at a scale of 1:1,200,000. (RUS86, $9.95)
 
 

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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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