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Highly Recommended
The Celts: A Very Short Introduction  •  Barry W Cunliffe
HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 161 PAGES
A concise, revealing social history of the Celts, by a reigning authority and popular writer. (CLT03, $11.95)		   The Celts: A Very Short Introduction
1066, The Year of the Conquest  •  David Howarth
HISTORY •  1981 •  PAPER  • 207 PAGES
A concise, lucid history of the Battle of Hastings, rich in anecdotal detail. Howarth relies on the few medieval sources available to reconstruct the events leading up to and the consequences of the famous battle. As much a master storyteller as an adept historian, he provides insight into the court intrigue, personalities and daily life in the Norman period. (GBR115, $14.00)		   1066, The Year of the Conquest
Europe Map  •  Michelin Travel Publications
MAP
A one-sided map of all of Europe, as far east as Russia and western Turkey, at a scale of 1:3,000,000. Two Sides. 39 X 53 inches. (EUR74, $11.95)		   Europe Map



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Great Britain and Ireland Map  •  HEMA Maps    •  A nicely detailed map showing both Great Britain and Ireland at a scale of 1:750,000. (GBR31, $10.95)
 		  
Normandy Map 513  •  Michelin    •  A colorful, detailed map of Normandy at a scale of 1:200,000, featuring Rouen, Le Havre and the route of the Seine from west of Paris to the Atlantic. (FRN49, $11.95)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide Great Britain  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With 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. (GBR01, $30.00)
 		  
Fodor's Dublin's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Take along this handy pocket guide, which includes a map and information on city highlights. (IRE30, $11.99)
 		  
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, $12.99)
 		  
Michelin Green Guide Normandy  •  Michelin Travel Publications   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A thorough introduction to Normandy and the Channel islands in the classic Michelin style, featuring brief descriptions of all the major attractions. Organized alphabetically, we like it for its broad coverage, and especially for its excellent local maps. (FRN89, $21.99)
 		  
A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance, Portrait of an Age  •  William Manchester   • HISTORY  •  Organized into sections on the Renaissance, Reformation and Discovery, Manchester's popular history evokes in vivid detail the great figures and daily life of the 16th century, including Henry VIII, Magellan, Borgia, da Vinci and Martin Luther. (EUR06, $15.99)
 		  
Celtic Prayers from Iona  •  J. Philip Newell   • RELIGION  •  Inspired by the Gaelic prayers and poems of the 19th-century Scotsman Alexander Carmichael, Newell and his wife developed this handsome hard cover book while wardens on the island. (SCT21, $14.95)
 		  
D-Day June 6, 1944, The Climactic Battle of World War II  •  Stephen Ambrose   • HISTORY  •  Written by the best-selling historian Stephen Ambrose, this well researched book draws together interviews and government documents to tell the gripping tale of D-Day. This comprehensive account contains 32 pages of photos and eight maps. (FRN40, $18.99)
 		  
In Europe, Travels Through the Twentieth Century  •  Geert Mak   • HISTORY  •  Don't be put off by the heft of Mak's eye-opening account of Europe on the brink of the millennium. The chapters originally appeared on the front page of a Dutch newspaper, and his deft reports from disparate locales are light in touch, bridging history, travel and opinion. (EUR254, $21.00)
 		  
In Search of Ancient Ireland  •  Leo Eaton  •  Carmel McCaffrey   • HISTORY  •  This spirited, illustrated history, the companion to a PBS documentary series, traces the foundation, archaeology and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C. to 1167 A.D. with style and substance. (IRE222, $16.95)
 		  
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres  •  Henry Brooks Adams   • HISTORY  •  First published at the turn of the century, this classic work is a meditation on the Medieval world as reflected through its most famous religious structures. (FRN44, $17.00)
 		  
Six Armies in Normandy, From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris  •  John Keegan   • HISTORY  •  A provocative account of the invasion of Normandy and the battles that proceeded it. Keegan's intense descriptions of the war in northern France are accompanied by perceptive analysis of the military tactics that resulted in Allied victory. (FRN118, $16.00)
 		  
The British Isles, A History of Four Nations  •  Hugh Kearney   • HISTORY  •  The Celts, Romans, Vikings, Normans and modern immigrants all make an appearance in Kearney's elegant and revisionist history of not just the English but also of the Scots, Welsh and Irish. (GBR88, $39.99)
 		  
The Last of the Celts  •  Marcus Tanner   • HISTORY  •  Welsh journalist Tanner mixes anecdote, interview and research in this lively account of encounters with far-flung Celts from Scotland, Wales and Belfast to Brittany, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and Trelew. (GBR527, $25.00)
 		  
The Normans  •  Trevor Rowley   • HISTORY  •  An archaeological perspective on the Normans with a good, illustrated chapter on castles. (EUR176, $27.50)
 		  
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World  •  Andrew Jotischky   • HISTORY  •  Richly illustrated with photographs, illustrations and full-color maps, this compact atlas explores the empires, people, cultures and religions of the Middle Ages, providing an excellent introduction to European history. (EUR384, $20.00)
 		  
Art of the Celts  •  Lloyd Robert Laing  •  Jennifer Laing   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A volume in the acclaimed "World of Art" series, this is a broad introduction to Celtic art, from the 5th century B.C. to 1200 A.D. (CLT02, $19.95)
 		  
The Bayeux Tapestry  •  Lucien Musset   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Authoritative and beautifully illustrated, this book presents a full-color reproduction of the entire Tapestry, with a detailed commentary. (FRN815, $47.95)
 		  
The Book of Kells  •  Bernard Meehan   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Written by the keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, this book features 110 color illustrations, including enlargements, of some of the more spectacular decorations in this most famous of medieval manuscripts. (IRE09, $19.95)
 		  
A Writer's House in Wales  •  Jan Morris   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this extended essay, Morris uses her much-loved 18th-century house as a point of departure for a meditation on Welsh identity. (GBR325, $20.00)
 		  
Coasting, A Private Journey  •  Jonathan Raban   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Raban's eloquent, anecdotal account of a solo circumnavigation of the British Isles in a 30-foot ketch, his first experience in a boat. It's an engaging account of the experience of the sea, and the people and places he encounters. (GBR591, $13.00)
 		  
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  •  This time, the prolific writer recounts a coastal journey around the British Isles in 1982, displaying his occasional ill temper alongside his celebrated ability to combine social history with a good old-fashioned traveler's tale. (GBR09, $14.95)
 		  
Seamanship, A Voyage Along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles  •  Adam Nicolson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Nicolson offers an engrossing account of a coastal voyage from Cornwall, along the western coast of Ireland, out to the Faeroes and to Orkney in this brief hymn to the sea. (GBR561, $13.95)
 		  
Silver Linings, Travels Around Northern Ireland  •  Martin Fletcher   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An account of travels, as well as the people, politics and traditions of Northern Ireland, infused with the author's humor and insightful reporting. (IRE146, $16.95)
 		  
The Crofter and the Laird  •  John McPhee   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  McPhee packs up his family and returns for a year to his ancestral land on the Isle of Colonsay in this lyrical, appreciative portrait of place and traditional ways of life in the Hebrides. (SCT23, $16.00)
 		  
Celtic Myths and Legends  •  T.W. Rolleston   • LITERATURE  •  The enchantment of the timeless world of the Celtic heroes, especially in Irish but also in Welsh myths and tales, is depicted in the legends of Arthur and many other traditional tales. (GBR55, $12.95)
 		  
Celtic Prayers and Incantations  •  Alexander Carmichael   • LITERATURE  •  An authoritative edition of poems and blessings as collected by folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832 - 1912) over 40 years, when Gaelic was still widely spoken in the Skye, Uist, Oban and other islands of the Hebrides. (CLT4, $7.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Jamaica Inn  •  Daphne du Maurier   • LITERATURE  •  This classic, set in Cornwall, has all the elements of a guilty pleasure: piracy, murder, the High Church, a dying request and a dashing young horse thief. (GBR52, $7.99)
 		  
Madame Bovary  •  Lydia Davis  •  Gustave Flaubert   • LITERATURE  •  The landmark novel of a woman who suffers in search of relief from her humdrum life in a provincial village outside Rouen. (FRN301, $16.00)
 		  
Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney  •  Hermann Palssom  •  Paul Edwards   • LITERATURE  •  A fusion of myth and legend, circa A.D. 1200, by an unnamed Icelandic author. The medieval chronicle has its center of action among the Orkney Islands, describing their conquest by Norwegian kings during the Viking expansion of the ninth century. (VIK07, $16.00)
 		  
Sun Dancing, A Vision of Medieval Ireland  •  Geoffrey Moorhouse   • LITERATURE  •  This wonderfully inspired combination of scholarship and historical fiction, set at the monastery on Skellig Michael, carries the reader back to Ireland's early monastic tradition. (IRE13, $22.95)
 		  
Birds of Europe  •  Lars Svensson   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps. (FG47, $29.95)
 		  
Wildlife of the North Atlantic, A Cruising Guide  •  Tony Soper  •  Dan Powell   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This compact, illustrated guide covers the many petrels, ducks, gulls, terns and other seabirds, as well as the rich abundance of life existing under the waves, that populate the vast Atlantic region from the British Isles to Newfoundland. (ATL26, $25.99)
 		  
 
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