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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Eyewitness Guide Croatia
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 296 PAGES
• BEST SELLER
Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book is a thorough overview of Croatia, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. With 850 color photographs and illustrations.
(BLK39, $23.00) |
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Fodor's Venice's 25 Best
• Citypack
GUIDEBOOK •
2012 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information on Venice's highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing.
(ITL106, $12.99) |
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A Traveller's History of Croatia
• Benjamin Curtis
HISTORY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 274 PAGES
No small feat, Benjamin Curtis traces the complex roots of Croatia and its turbulent history at the crossroads of Europe in just 250 pages, untangling the land and people, Roman majesty, Ottoman and Hapsburg wrangling, Tito's Yugoslavia, independence and contemporary affairs with alacrity.
(BLK155, $14.95) |
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The World of Venice
• Jan Morris
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 315 PAGES
• FAVORITE
Morris displays her talent for research, telling anecdote and well-wrought prose in this spirited portrait of a beloved city, its history and inhabitants. If you are going to read one book on Venice, we recommend this favorite. Originally published in 1974 and revised for this edition, it's a tour de force.
(ITL12, $18.95) |
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Mediterranean Cruises Map
• Freytag & Berndt
2010 •
MAP
A double-sided, full-color map of the Mediterranean, including the Iberian Peninsula and Black Sea, North Africa and the Levant, at a scale of 1:2,000,000. Two Sides. 35.5X49 inches.
(MED36, $14.95) |
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Also Recommended
Bradt Mini Guide Dubrovnik
• Piers Letcher
• GUIDEBOOK
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A helpful, condensed guide to the city in the popular Bradt series.
(BLK46, $13.99)
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Eyewitness Guide Venice & the Veneto
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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Featuring color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a synopsis of the region's attractions. With a pullout map.
(ITL200, $20.00)
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A History of Venice
• John Julius Norwich
• HISTORY
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The great historian Norwich marshals myriad personalities, battles, sieges, and facts into a vivid portrait of the Venetian Republic spanning the 1,000 years up to its 1797 defeat at the hands of Napoleon.
(ITL177, $26.00)
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City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas
• Roger Crowley
• HISTORY
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In this riveting new history, Crowley turns to the three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance -- years of plunder and plague, conquest and piracy -- during which a tiny city of lagoon dwellers grew into the richest place on earth.
(MED185, $32.00)
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Dubrovnik, A History
• Robin Harris
• HISTORY
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Harris, a journalist who writes frequently on the Balkans, presents a comprehensive portrait of the historically important maritime city-state in this nicely illustrated, scholarly and readable history of Dubrovnik.
(BLK56, $26.95)
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages, And the Beginning of the Modern World
• Thomas Cahill
• HISTORY
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Cahill deftly evokes the historic glories of the major medieval (and the places they frequented) in this illuminating overview of philosophy, art and literature.
(EUR239, $22.00)
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The Balkans, A Short History
• Mark Mazower
• HISTORY
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A brief, provocative survey of the complex and often contentious history of the Balkans. With eloquence and insight, Mazower addresses the issues of geography, nationalism and modern nation-building in the region.
(BLK28, $13.95)
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Venice, a Maritime Republic
• Frederic C. Lane
• HISTORY
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Lane focuses on the history of trade, taking in not just on La Serenissima but also Dubrovink and the other cities of its once far-flung domain.
(ITL24, $32.00)
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Art of the Byzantine Era
• David Talbot Rice
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Wide-ranging and literate, this thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art is an indispensable classic.
(TKY22, $21.95)
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Treasury of Byzantine Ornament: 255 Motifs from St. Mark's and Ravenna
• Arne Dehli
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A great reference for anyone with an interest in 6th- and 7th-century Byzantine art and architecture. This guide provides clear line drawings of interior and exterior adornments; thorough and well-illustrated.
(ITL690, $12.95)
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Venice 697-1797: A City, a Republic, an Empire
• Aluise Zorzi
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Zorzi reveals the growth of Venice from a small fishing village to a bustling metropolis whose cultural, political and economic dominance extended over the entire Mediterranean world with this sumptuous collection of 340 color paintings, photographs and drawings.
(MED186, $75.00)
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Balkan Ghosts, A Journey through History
• Robert D. Kaplan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Kaplan interweaves the history, art and culture of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece with his travels in this portrait of the region.
(BLK02, $17.00)
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How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
• Slavenka Drakulic
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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These short essays capture the absurdity, struggle and day-to-day reality of being a woman in Yugoslavia under Communism. Drakulic is a Croatian journalist, novelist and contributing editor at The Nation.
(BLK38, $15.99)
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The Venetian Empire, A Sea Voyage
• Jan Morris
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Morris reconstructs the whole of the glittering dominion of the Venetian Republic in this evocative account of a journey by sea along historic trade routes to the Adriatic and beyond.
(ITL70, $24.95)
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Venice Is a Fish
• Tiziano Scarpa
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The hugely popular Venetian novelist, poet and playwright makes his English-language debut with these marvelously digressive essays on the many moods and pleasures of La Serenissima.
(ITL964, $12.00)
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Croatia, Through Writers' Eyes
• Barnaby Rogerson
• ANTHOLOGY
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This collection of stories, tales and travel narratives illuminates the history and culture of Croatia. Including contributions by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell and Fitzroy MacLean.
(BLK95, $33.95)
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Dead Lagoon, An Aurelio Zen Mystery
• Michael Dibdin
• MYSTERY
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Dibdin -- a master of ambiguous settings, shady dealings and fast-paced prose -- returns to Venice in this sixth book in the thoroughly enjoyable Aurelio Zen series.
(ITL577, $14.95)
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Death at La Fenice
• Donna Leon
• MYSTERY
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The first of the tremendously good Guido Brunetti mysteries, all set in the author's beloved Venice, in which a famous conductor is found dead at the celebrated theater of the title.
(ITL555, $14.99)
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Montenegro, A Novel
• Starling Lawrence
• LITERATURE
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Steeped in atmosphere, this compelling tale of intrigue set in turn-of-the-century Montenegro evokes the tangled politics of the region -- Muslim, Turk and British. Lawrence follows the adventures of a reluctant British spy, Harwell Auberon, from the Adriatic to mountain villages, capturing the essence of the people and the land.
(BLK08, $14.99)
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The Bridge on the Drina
• Ivo Andric
• Lovette F. Edwards
• LITERATURE
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These linked stories by the Nobel-prize winning author capture the history and complexity of Christian and Muslim relations during Ottoman occupation. Hewn of stone, the bridge dividing the town of Visegrad was Andric's inspiration.
(BLK59, $15.00)
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The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story
• Horace Walpole
• LITERATURE
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First published in 1764, Walpole's classic Gothic novel takes place in and around the 15th-century castle on the Adriatic.
(ITL631, $8.95)
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Waking Raphael
• Leslie Forbes
• LITERATURE
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This literary thriller, set in painter Raphael's hometown of Urbino, follows the fate of an art historian mixed up in local affairs.
(ITL536, $15.00)
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