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Anna Karenina
• Leo Tolstoy
• Larissa Volokhonsky
• Richa Pevear
• LITERATURE
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Pevear and Volokhonsky have brilliantly reinvented Tolstoy's epic tale of an adulterous affair between an aristocratic woman and an officer in late 19th Century Russia for a new generation of readers, capturing the rhythms, repetitions and speech of the original Russian.
(RUS81, $16.00)
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Battle of the Baltic, The Wars 1918-1945
• Robert Jackson
• HISTORY
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A well written, illustrated survey of the underexamined clashes that took place around the Baltic Sea during and between the first and second World Wars.
(BLT34, $39.95)
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Bradt Guide Latvia
• Chris Baister
• Chris Patrick
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide for the traveler from the popular and informative British series.
(BLT20, $23.99)
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Bradt Guide Lithuania
• Gordon McLachlan
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular Bradt series, featuring information on Lithuanian art, history and culture, as well as good travel information.
(BLT21, $20.95)
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Bradt Travel Guide Estonia
• Neil Taylor
• GUIDEBOOK
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This convenient guide features an overview of the history and culture of Estonia along with a few color photographs and many maps.
(BLT28, $23.99)
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Carmen and Other Stories
• Prosper Merimee
• Nicholas Jotcham
• LITERATURE
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A collection of nine stories, including Carmen, memorably set in southern Spain -- and source for the Bizet opera of the same name.
(FRN201, $13.95)
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
• HISTORY
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The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state.
(FRN536, $12.00)
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The Corrections
• Jonathan Franzen
• LITERATURE
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A dazzling novel of life and love and family and holidays that follows the peregrinations of the Lamberts -- father, mother and offspring -- from New York to Philadelphia to Vilnius.
(EUR122, $15.00)
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Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century and After
• R. J. Crampton
• HISTORY
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A well-written, insightful scholarly country-by-county history of modern Eastern Europe.
(EUR273, $42.95)
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Footprint Tallinn
• Clare Thomson
• GUIDEBOOK
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Nuts-and-bolts information, plus an overview of history and culture, geared for the independent traveler.
(BLT27, $12.95)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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The Kalevala
• Keith Bosley
• LITERATURE
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This national epic of Finland, based on ancient heroic poetry, was a rallying flag for national aspirations as Finland struggled to break away from Russia in the 19th century.
(SCN14, $15.95)
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Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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An excellent practical guide to the region geared for independent travelers.
(BLT05, $25.99)
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Lonely Planet Scandinavian Europe
• Glenda Bendure
• Ned Friary
• GUIDEBOOK
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An excellent practical guide to Scandinavian countries, as well as St. Petersburg and Tallinn, featuring a good overview of culture, history and nature, and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing.
(SCN01, $24.99)
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals.
(FG61, $34.95)
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Michelin Green Guide Scandinavia and Finland
• Michelin Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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A thorough guide to Scandinavia in the classic Michelin style.
(SCN10, $21.95)
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Northern Europe Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A colorful shaded relief map of Scandinavia and the Baltic States at a scale of 1:2,000,000. It shows the entire Baltic Sea region.
(EUR19, $11.95)
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Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Rick Steves
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary.
(EUR142, $9.95)
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To Begin Where I Am, The Selected Prose of Czeslaw Milosz
• Czeslaw Milosz
• Madeline G. Levine
• Bogdana Carpenter
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Culled from a lifetime's worth of publications, these essays by the Lithuanian-born Polish poet and Nobel laureate Milosz address the Polish experience at home and abroad in the 20th century.
(PLD25, $16.00)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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This entertaining collection depicts Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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