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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $72, including
U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXEUR685)		  
Eyewitness Guide London  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES
This superb guide to London features color photography, dozens of excellent neighborhood maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (GBR34, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide London
Eyewitness Guide Paris  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 448 PAGES
Gorgeous, well illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book is a thorough overview of the City of Light, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. Featuring well chosen literary excerpts and a detailed synopsis of the city's attractions. (FRN02, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Paris
Angry Island, Hunting the English  •  A. Gill
ANTHOLOGY •  2008 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES
An owner's manual to the English, this over-the-top comic primer by the splendidly irreverent London critic A. A. Gill includes scathing chapters on voice, humor, drink (I am an alcoholic), animals, garden, sport and class. Gill explains, rather unnecessarily that though he lives in London, for obvious reasons he spends as much time as possible abroad. (GBR715, $14.00)		   Angry Island, Hunting the English
London Map  •  Borch Maps
2009 •  MAP
This sixth edition laminated folded map of London includes London proper at 1:15 000, Kew Gardens & Richmond (1:35 000), Central Sights (1:11 000), Greater London (1:375 000) along with Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Public Transport London. With hotels, museums, monuments, markets, public transport, top sights and points of interest, useful statistics, and conversion charts. Two Sides. 20x26 inches. (GBR114, $8.95)		   London Map
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)		   Paris Map



Also Recommended

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)
 		  
Fodor's Paris' 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK • BEST SELLER  •  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)
 		  
French or Foe?  •  Polly Platt   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN  •  With humor, directness and great insight, this compact book is an expert and entertaining guide to the French and how to get along with them. The expanded third edition addresses France's romance with cell phones and includes a short chapter of recent vignettes. (FRN54, $16.95)
 		  
A Propos De Paris  •  Henri Cartier-Bresson   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This handsomely produced coffee table book features 131 duotone images of Paris selected by Cartier-Bresson in honor of his 90th birthday. It's a splendid tribute to the people and life of the City of Light. (FRN132, $40.00)
 		  
Little Book of London  •  David Long   • HISTORY  •  The Little Book of London is a funny, fact-packed compendium full of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or just strange-but-true stuff which no-one will want to be without. (GBR751, $21.95)
 		  
London Perceived  •  Evelyn Hofer  •  V. S. Pritchett   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A classic, lyrical celebration of the palaces, parks, people and everyday experience of London. Pritchett's eloquent riffs on the character of the city are accompanied by evocative black-and-white photographs by the superb Evelyn Hofer. (GBR310, $19.95)
 		  
London, A History  •  A.N. Wilson   • HISTORY  •  A brief, evocative meditation on the rich and varied history of England's capital city by the prolific British writer, critic and historian. Wilson examines London through several lenses, using humor and insight to discuss art, architecture, politics and culture. (GBR480, $14.00)
 		  
Notes from a Small Island  •  Bill Bryson   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A farewell walking tour of England by an American expatriate who has decided to return home after two decades. Like all of Bryson's books, it's full of rich conversations, humorous anecdotes and amusing interactions. (GBR16, $14.99)
 		  
Paris, The Biography of a City  •  Colin Jones   • HISTORY  •  Jones writes with obvious affection in this entertaining, ambitious history of Paris, its architecture, culture and politics, from the late Stone Age to Jacques Chirac. (FRN502, $18.00)
 		  
The Story of England  •  Christopher Hibbert   • HISTORY  •  Beautifully illustrated with color pictures, chronological charts, royal genealogies and maps, this popular history of English politics, economics and culture from the Neolithic age to the 1990s is an excellent traveler's companion. (GBR02, $19.95)
 		  
Cathedrals and Castles, The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages  •  Alain Erlande-Brandenburg   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  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)
 		  
The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral  •  Robert A. Scott   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An enthusiast, Scott delves into the history, design, architecture and wonder of Europe's medieval cathedrals and great Abbey churches. (EUR190, $21.95)
 		  
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 captures with stylish prose his coming-of-age in Paris in this elegant memoir, which is also a tribute to French cuisine. (FRN32, $15.00)
 		  
Into a Paris Quartier, Reine Margot's Chapel and other Haunts of St. Germain  •  Diane Johnson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Novelist Diane Johnson (Le Divorce) writes with insight, verve and wit in this affectionate, personal portrait of St Germain-des-Pres, her neighborhood on the Left Bank. (FRN491, $10.95)
 		  
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, $16.00)
 		  
Talk to the Snail, Ten Commandments to Understanding the French  •  Stephen Clarke   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Clarke's essays on France and the French, as witty as they are useful, combine a guide to cultural understanding with some perfectly rendered, entertaining and tongue-in-cheek notes on how to speak proper French. (FRN643, $15.95)
 		  
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel  •  Jerome Jerome  •  Jeremy Lewis   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  Written in 1889, "Three Men in a Boat" (to say nothing of the dog!) is a laugh-out-loud account of a man-powered voyage along the River Thames, full of detail on life and lore. A Longitude favorite. (GBR28, $12.00)
 		  
A Tale of Two Cities  •  Charles Dickens   • LITERATURE  •  Dickens' famous tale of love and intrigue, set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. (GBR100, $8.00)
 		  
Americans in Paris, A Literary Anthology  •  Adam Gopnik   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This wide-ranging anthology includes early impressions by Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, as well as by a generous sampling of 20th-century literary masters. (FRN427, $40.00)
 		  
Down and Out in Paris and London  •  George Orwell   • LITERATURE  •  Orwell's first published work, this novel -- based, in part, on true experiences -- is a tale of the underclass in 1930's Paris and London. (GBR99, $14.00)
 		  
Murder in the Marais  •  Cara Black   • MYSTERY  •  Literate and thrilling, with a strong sense of the geography and flavor of Paris, the first in a series of mysteries starring Aimee Ledoc shows off the French-American detective's wit and wile. The series continues with Murder in Belleville (FRN562), Murder in the Sentier (FRN563) and many more. (FRN561, $9.99)
 		  
The London Scene, Six Essays  •  Virginia Woolf   • LITERATURE  •  The great Virginia Woolf, here writing for the British Good Housekeeping magazine in the 1930s when she was already a leading light, makes a congenial guide to her hometown in these essays, loosely organized as a series of walking tours. Her focus is on London's lterary scene, including Keats, Carlyle and a whole lot of dead poets. (GBR693, $16.95)
 		  
The Ministry of Fear  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE  •  A thriller set in London during the Blitz by the master of atmosphere and ambiguity. (GBR571, $15.00)
 		  
A Year at Kew  •  Rupert Smith  •  Alan Titchmarsh   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Arranged by month, this photographic portrait of the seasons at London's Kew Gardens was published in conjunction with a BBC television series. (GBR572, $30.00)
 		  
On the Making of Gardens  •  George Sitwell   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A handsome edition of Sitwell's 1909 meditation on the Renaissance gardens of Tuscany, Rome and the Lake District. It's not a handbook but rather an inspiring analysis of the transformation -- and magic -- of gardens. (ITL499, $16.95)
 		  
 
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