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Eyewitness Guide Croatia

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 296 PAGES
• BEST SELLER

Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book offers a thorough overview of Croatia's history, traditions, cultures and sights. (BLK39, $23.00)

Fodor's Venice's 25 Best

by Citypack

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 176 PAGES

This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information. (ITL106, $12.99)

A Traveller's History of Croatia

by Benjamin Curtis

• HISTORY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 274 PAGES
• CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
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Curtis untangles with alacrity the complex history of this nation at the crossroads of Europe. (BLK155, $14.95)

The World of Venice

by Jan Morris

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1995
• PAPER
• 315 PAGES
• FAVORITE

Morris displays her talent for research, anecdote and well-wrought prose in this spirited history of a beloved city. (ITL12, $18.95)

Mediterranean Cruises Map

by 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. (MED36, $14.95)

 

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Bradt Mini Guide Dubrovnik

by Piers Letcher

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2007
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

A helpful, condensed guide to the city in the popular Bradt series. (BLK46, $13.99)

Eyewitness Guide Venice & the Veneto

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 312 PAGES

Featuring color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a synopsis of the region's attractions. With a pullout map. (ITL200, $20.00)

A History of Venice

by John Julius Norwich

• HISTORY
• 1989
• PAPER
• 673 PAGES

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)

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

by Roger Crowley

• HISTORY
• 2013
• PAPER
• 400 PAGES

Crowley spins tales of three centuries of plunder and plague, imperial conquest and piracy in this riveting new history, chronicling the transformation of a tiny city of lagoon dwellers into the richest place on earth. City of Fortune is framed by two of the great collisions of world history: the ill-fated Fourth Crusade -- culminating in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204 -- and the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499-1503. (MED185, $18.00)

Dubrovnik, A History

by Robin Harris

• HISTORY
• 2006
• PAPER
• 503 PAGES

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)

Mysteries of the Middle Ages, And the Beginning of the Modern World

by Thomas Cahill

• HISTORY
• 2008
• PAPER
• 343 PAGES

Cahill deftly evokes the historic glories of the major medieval figures (and the places they frequented) in this illuminating overview of philosophy, art and literature. (EUR239, $22.00)

The Balkans, A Short History

by Mark Mazower

• HISTORY
• 2002
• PAPER
• 188 PAGES

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, $15.00)

The Middle Sea

by John Julius Norwich

• HISTORY
• 2007
• PAPER
• 720 PAGES

A marvelous writer who has already tackled Byzantium, the Normans in Sicily and Venice, Norwich spins his magic in this story of culture, trade and politics, royalty and rulers, wars and religion in the Mediterranean. (MED98, $21.00)

Venice, a Maritime Republic

by Frederic C. Lane

• HISTORY
• 1973
• PAPER
• 505 PAGES

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)

Art of the Byzantine Era

by David Talbot Rice

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 1985
• PAPER
• 286 PAGES
• CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE
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Wide-ranging and literate, this thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art is an indispensable classic. (TKY22, $21.95)

Treasury of Byzantine Ornament: 255 Motifs from St. Mark's and Ravenna

by Arne Dehli

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 112 PAGES

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)

Venice 697-1797: A City, a Republic, an Empire

by Aluise Zorzi

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 2002
• HARD COVER
• 303 PAGES

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)

Balkan Ghosts, A Journey through History

by Robert D. Kaplan

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 307 PAGES

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)

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

by Slavenka Drakulic

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 1993
• PAPER
• 227 PAGES

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)

The Venetian Empire, A Sea Voyage

by Jan Morris

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1990
• PAPER
• 200 PAGES

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)

Venice Is a Fish

by Tiziano Scarpa

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2009
• PAPER
• 160 PAGES

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)

Croatia, Through Writers' Eyes

by Barnaby Rogerson

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2006
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

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)

Dead Lagoon, An Aurelio Zen Mystery

by Michael Dibdin

• MYSTERY
• 1995
• PAPER
• 297 PAGES

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)

Death at La Fenice

by Donna Leon

• MYSTERY
• 2004
• PAPER
• 270 PAGES

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)

Montenegro, A Novel

by Starling Lawrence

• LITERATURE
• 2006
• PAPER
• 350 PAGES

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)

The Bridge on the Drina

by Ivo Andric | Lovette F. Edwards

• LITERATURE
• 1977
• PAPER
• 318 PAGES

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)

The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story

by Horace Walpole

• LITERATURE
• 2008
• PAPER
• 176 PAGES

First published in 1764, Walpole's classic Gothic novel takes place in and around the 15th-century castle on the Adriatic. (ITL631, $8.95)

Waking Raphael

by Leslie Forbes

• LITERATURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 432 PAGES

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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