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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Larissa Volokhonsky
Richa Pevear
LITERATURE
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A thorough guide to Scandinavia in the classic Michelin style.
(SCN10, $21.95) |
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Northern Europe Map
Freytag & Berndt
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
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
LITERATURE
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
This entertaining collection depicts Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95) |
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