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Fodor's Paris' 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK 2009 PAPER 128 PAGES
This shirt-pocket map and guide includes essential information on the city's history, highlights and sightseeing, ideal for a short visit to the City of Light.
(FRN41, $11.95)
Fodor's Prague's 25 Best
Fodors
GUIDEBOOK 2009 PAPER 128 PAGES
A shirt-pocket guide to Prague, this slim book includes an outstanding map of the city as well as a brief overview of its many museums, grand buildings and other not-to-be-missed cultural attractions.
(CZH02, $11.99)
Fodor's Exploring Germany
John Ardagh
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 288 PAGES
Lively, fully illustrated and comprehensive, this practical guidebook, by well regarded author John Ardagh, encapsulates the attractions of Germany for the visitor. With good introductory chapters, maps and region-by-region highlights.
(GER05, $22.00)
Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
ART & ARCHITECTURE 1995 PAPER 175 PAGES
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A slim encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages. This volume in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series features hundreds of drawings and color illustrations, a brief chronology and more information than you would imagine between its slim covers. Take it along to gain a better appreciation of the Middle Ages and its legacy in Europe.
(MED07, $12.95)
A Time of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 2005 PAPER 384 PAGES
Fermor effortlessly interweaves anecdote, history and culture in this exuberant account of a walk as a young man in 1933 across Europe. This first volume chronicles his trip from the Hook of Holland, up the Rhine and down the Danube. The adventure continues in Between the Woods and Water, thankfully also reissued by NYRB. The books were written not by the young adventurer but the accomplished author 40 years later, adding perspective and a sweet nostalgia.
(CEU30, $16.95)
Central Europe Map
Freytag & Berndt
2009 MAP
This colorful regional European map, like the sister map Europe Grand Tour (EUR185), covers from Paris and Amsterdam to Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Rome and Dubrovnik. One Side. 49x34 inches.
(EUR12, $14.95)
Paris Map
Borch Maps
A sturdy laminated map of the city center of Paris at a scale of 1:12,000 and all of Paris at a scale of 1:15,000.
(FRN400, $8.95)
Prague Map
Borch Maps
A laminated, detailed map of the center of Prague at a scale of 1:10,000.
(CZH13, $7.95)
Eyewitness Guide Paris
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
Gorgeous, well illustrated and filled with maps, this compact book provides an excellent overview of the City of Light, its history, traditions, cultures and sights.
(FRN02, $25.00)
Eyewitness Guide Prague
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the celebrated city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(CZH01, $25.00)
Lonely Planet Central Europe
Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK
With dozens of maps, color photographs and sections on history and culture, this practical guide introduces Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and their neighbors.
(EUR94, $28.99)
The Food of France
Waverly Root
FOOD
An evocative and beautifully written survey of French food. First published in 1958 and revised in the mid-1970s, this book covers the important regions of French cuisine by dividing them into domains of Butter (northern France), Fat (Alsace), and Oil (the south).
(FRN17, $18.00)
A Traveller's History of Paris
Robert Coles
HISTORY
A fast-moving, short survey of French history with a focus on Paris from its foundation, through the heady days of revolution, and up to modern times.
(FRN426, $14.95)
Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000
Barry Cunliffe
HISTORY
In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe boldly recasts European history through the lens of geography, showing its seas and rivers as the conduits to trade and culture. With lucid maps and choice illustrations.
(EUR310, $45.00)
Nuremberg, Infamy on Trial
Joseph E. Persico
HISTORY
A narrative history of the Nazi war crime trials in Nuremberg. Persico poignantly portrays the numerous characters and events surrounding the proceedings. Well-informed and engrossing.
(GER106, $17.00)
Prague in Black and Gold, Scenes from Life in a European City
Peter Demetz
HISTORY
Both a history and accessible guide to the neighborhoods and architecture of the city.
(CZH09, $17.95)
The German Way
Hyde Flippo
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
COMING IN APRIL
A slim volume on the German-speaking world's cultural psyche, this is a great resource for anyone seeking insight into why the Germans do what they do.
(GER12, $15.95)
The Germans
Gordon A. Craig
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A gifted historian, Craig explores the complex paradoxes of German identity in this masterly portrait of German life, past and present, with chapters on religion, money, Jews, women, literature and society, Berlin and language.
(GER10, $18.00)
The Habsburgs, Embodying Empire
Andrew Wheatcroft
HISTORY
The Habsburgs ruled over more diverse peoples and cultures than any other European dynasty since the Roman period. With skillful scholarship and engaging style, Wheatcroft reveals the history of this family of eccentric monarchs.
(AST11, $17.00)
The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
Robert A. Scott
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $19.95)
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A treasure for anyone interested in Parisian cafe society and its luminaries circa 1925. Hemingway includes sharp portraits of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford and others who idled on their way to greatness.
(FRN26, $15.00)
Between Meals, An Appetite for Paris
A.J. Liebling
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
FAVORITE
Liebling captues with stylish prose his coming-of-age in Paris in this elegant memoir, which is also a tribute to French cuisine.
(FRN32, $15.00)
Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Gopnik writes with candor and humor about Paris and Parisian ways in these charming reflections on adapting to life abroad.
(FRN208, $15.00)
The Improbable Voyage
Tristan Jones
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Jones, an inveterate Welsh sailor, adventurer and storyteller, channels Eastern Europe circa 1985 in his tale of a tough voyage along the Rhine and Danube to the Black Sea.
(EUR156, $16.50)
The Secret Life of the Seine
Mort Rosenblum
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Rosenblum, a born storyteller, takes to a houseboat moored on the Seine after losing his Paris apartment. This entertaining tour of people and place is his account of his explorations along the river.
(FRN48, $17.50)
Prague, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Paul Wilson
ANTHOLOGY
This anthology of 24 vivid stories by Prague writers, contemporary and well-known, brings the city to life and includes a helpful map for the traveler. In the same series is Vienna (AST94, $14.95).
(CZH08, $14.95)
Travelers' Tales Paris
James O'Reilly
ANTHOLOGY
OUT OF PRINT
This diverse collection of well-chosen, mostly modern tales by mostly foreign writers includes short excerpts by Edmund White, Jan Morris, Mort Rosenblum, Ina Caro and Julian Green.
(FRN25, $18.95)
Murder in the Marais
Cara Black
MYSTERY
Literate, thrilling and with a strong sense of the geography and flavor of Paris, this first mystery starring Aimee Ledoc shows off the French-American detective's wit and wile.
(FRN561, $13.00)
Paris Stories
Mavis Gallant
Michael Ondaatje
LITERATURE
All written in Paris (where Gallant has long lived), these magnificent stories range from the Left Bank to the French Riviera, postwar Germany and Franco-era Spain. If you haven't read her (many of the stories originally appeared in the New Yorker), you are in for a treat. Gallant is one of the great 20th century short story writers.
(FRN373, $15.95)
The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald
LITERATURE
Set in the Age of Goethe, this exquisitely written short novel is a fictional account of the life of the Romantic poet Novalis. It paints a vivid picture of German intellectual and mercantile life in the late 1700s.
(GER21, $13.00)
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