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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Eyewitness Guide Amsterdam
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 312 PAGES
A wonderful guide to Amsterdam, filled with drawings, photographs and thumbnail sketches. The highly visual format covers a wide range of information and is very well indexed, with color-coded pages for easy use. Slim and attractive, it also includes detailed maps and cutaway drawings of landmarks. Includes Rotterdam and Delft.
(NTH01, $25.00) |
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Eyewitness Guide Brussels, Bruges, Ghent & Antwerp
• Rebecca Miles
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 210 PAGES
A superb guide to Brussels and the surrounding towns of Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp. Features color photography and maps of city neighborhoods and town layouts. Describes the area's attractions and provides plenty of background information on Belgian culture and history.
(BLG16, $20.00) |
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A Worldly Art
• Mariet Westermann
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
This appreciative analysis of Dutch art in its Golden Age features 100 exemplary illustrations of masters, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch and Frans Hals. With 100 color illustrations.
(NTH46, $25.00) |
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Paris in Mind
• Jennifer Lee
ANTHOLOGY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
With selections spanning 300 years, this wonderful anthology reflects America's long connection to Paris and the French. The 30 American writers tapped include Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Hemingway and David Sedaris.
(FRN412, $15.00) |
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Paris Map
• Borch Maps
2011 •
MAP
A sturdy laminated map of the city center at a scale of 1:12,000 and all of Paris at a scale of 1:15,000. Two Sides. 20x26 inches.
(FRN400, $8.95) |
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Benelux Map
• Michelin Travel Publications
2010 •
MAP
An easy-to-handle, self-folding map covering the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg at a scale of 1:400,000. With an index on the reverse. It includes plans of Luxembourg, Amsterdam and Brussels. Two Sides. 52x39 inches.
(NTH03, $11.95) |
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Also Recommended
Amsterdam Map
• Borch Maps
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A laminated, folded map of the city center, at a scale of 1:11,000.
(NTH36, $8.95)
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Brussels Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A detailed city map of Brussels at a scale of 1:10,000.
(BLG28, $11.95)
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Fodor's Amsterdam's 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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This slim guide to essential highlights includes an excellent map of the city center and can easily be slipped in your pocket.
(NTH16, $11.99)
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Fodor's Paris' 25 Best
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
• BEST SELLER
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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, $12.99)
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A Traveller's History of Paris
• Robert Coles
• HISTORY
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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)
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The Autumn of the Middle Ages
• Johan Huizinga
• HISTORY
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A pioneering work of social and cultural history, this well-translated classic is a richly detailed portrait of life, thought and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands.
(EUR17, $30.00)
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The Tulip
• Anna Pavord
• HISTORY
• COMING IN
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In Holland, the tulip is not just another flower; it's a national obsession. Pavord traces the history of the magnificent flower through the last few centuries, with stories about how much it was treasured and her own reflections on its beauty.
(NTH21, $14.95)
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The Undutchables
• Colin White
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A laugh-out-loud, irreverent guide to Dutch character and habits, including how to drink coffee and why you shouldn't even think about haggling over prices.
(NTH12, $16.00)
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Tulipomania
• Mike Dash
• HISTORY
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The story of the world's most coveted flower and the extraordinary passion it aroused, this vivid history traces the story of the tulip from its origins on the Turkish steppes to an absurdly coveted object in Europe and its key role in the financial follies of 17th-century Holland.
(NTH30, $13.95)
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Cathedrals and Castles, The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages
• Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages features hundreds of drawings, color illustrations and a brief chronology.
(MED07, $15.95)
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Rembrandt, Master of the Portrait
• Pascal Bonafoux
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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With over 200 illustrations, this pocket-size encyclopedia traces the life and career of Rembrandt. It offers insight into his influence on the art of the portrait -- an illuminating companion for any visit to Amsterdam and its museums.
(NTH11, $12.95)
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A Moveable Feast
• Ernest Hemingway
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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)
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A Tall Man in a Low Land
• Harry Pearson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Pearson, a British travel writer, journalist and comic is an entertaining guide to Belgium and its traditions, culture, beer and chocolate.
(BLG19, $16.95)
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Paris to the Moon
• Adam Gopnik
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Gopnik writes with candor and humor about Paris and Parisian ways in these charming reflections on adapting to life abroad.
(FRN208, $16.00)
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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Definitive Edition
• Anne Frank
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The classic story of an adolescent Jewish girl's life and thoughts while in hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Holland. A new edition with added material.
(NTH05, $13.00)
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Amsterdam, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• Manfred Wolf
• ANTHOLOGY
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Organized by district, these 17 contemporary short stories by modern Dutch writers, including Cees Nooteboom and Geert Mak, are set among the canals, cafes and neighborhoods of Amsterdam.
(NTH33, $13.95)
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Girl With a Pearl Earring
• Tracy Chevalier
• LITERATURE
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Chevalier's richly drawn novel imagines the story behind Vermeer's mysterious portrait of a turbaned girl with a pearl earring.
(NTH25, $15.00)
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Headlong, A Novel
• Michael Frayn
• LITERATURE
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A Bruegel canvas claims a central role in Frayn's hilarious tale of an art heist gone awry. Frayn weaves detailed research about the Old Master with a philosopher's foiled plot to appropriate the valuable masterpiece from a boor he feels is unworthy of it.
(NTH68, $16.00)
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Niccolo Rising
• Dorothy Dunnett
• LITERATURE
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From the reigning queen of historical fiction comes this fast-paced, thoroughly-researched novel of ambition and worldly goods in 15th-century Bruges. This is the first volume in her House of Niccolo series.
(BLG13, $15.95)
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Paris Stories
• Mavis Gallant
• Michael Ondaatje
• LITERATURE
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All written in Paris (where Gallant has long lived), these magnificent stories take place from the Left Bank to the French Riviera, postwar Germany and Franco-era Spain. If you haven't read her work (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)
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The Lady and The Unicorn
• Tracy Chevalier
• LITERATURE
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In this rich historical novel, Chevalier (Girl With A Pearl Earring) imagines the wealthy patrons, social milieu, intrigue and incident behind the 15th-century tapestries now hanging in the Cluny in Paris.
(BLG24, $16.00)
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