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Babette's Feast
• Gabriel Axel
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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This adaptation of a Karen Blixen story won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1998. In it, a French chef prepares a feast for her friends and neighbors in a Danish village.
(DMK29, $14.95)
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Borderliners
• Peter Hoeg
• LITERATURE
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Hoeg's thriller set in a Danish boarding school.
(DMK37, $14.00)
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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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Copenhagen Map
• Borch Maps
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A handy laminated street map of Copenhagen in full color at a scale of 1:11,000.
(DMK14, $7.95)
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Culture Smart! Denmark
• Mark Salmon
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(DMK30, $9.95)
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Denmark Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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1:400,000 scale map of Denmark
(SCN15, $12.95)
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Egil's Saga
• Bernard Scudder
• Svanhildur Oskarsdottir
• LITERATURE
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This chronicle of war and rivaly between ruling clans, written in the 13th century, blends history and legend. It's a vivid portrait of the Viking world. The action is set in 10th-century southern Scandinavia, the Baltic, Iceland and the North Sea.
(VIK06, $15.00)
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Europe in Our Time, A History, 1945-1992
• Walter Laqueur
• HISTORY
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An update of the classic general history of Europe since World War II, this enormously readable book offers a great overview of the events that have shaped our modern world.
(EUR14, $17.95)
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Eyewitness Top Ten Copenhagen
• DK Publishing
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions in Copenhagen.
(DMK38, $12.00)
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Fairy Tales
• Hans Christian Andersen
• LITERATURE
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(DMK31, $27.95)
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Fairy Tales
• Hans Christian Andersen
• Tina Nunnally
• Jackie Wullschlager
• LITERATURE
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(DMK32, $16.00)
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The Far Islands and Other Cold Places, Travel Essays of A Victorian Lady
• Elizabeth Taylor
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• OUT OF PRINT
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Here are the tales of a no-nonsense "Victorian lady," featuring her great love for remote islands with bad weather. She writes of the people, culture, traditions and natural history of Iceland, Norway, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands with grace and insight.
(ARC32, $16.95)
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Fodor's Denmark
• Sar Sper
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining.
(DMK40, $18.95)
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Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
• Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
• RELIGION
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An classic survey of the Norse and Anglo-Saxon mythologies, gods and goddesses of pre-Christian Europe by a leading scholar of Norse and Anglo-Saxon religion and archaeology.
(SCN23, $15.00)
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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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A History of the Vikings
• Gwyn Jones
• HISTORY
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Jones integrates history and archaeology in this classic portait of the Vikings.
(VIK20, $18.95)
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King Harald's Saga
• Magnus Magnusson
• Paulsson Herman
• Snorri Sturlusson
• Hermann Palsson
• LITERATURE
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A classic biography of the last Viking warrior King Harald and an account of the 1066 conflict between Norway and England.
(NOR19, $12.00)
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Lonely Planet Copenhagen Encounter
• Lonely Planet Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map.
(DMK35, $11.99)
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Lonely Planet Denmark
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, practical guide .
(DMK12, $21.99)
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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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Neither Here Nor There, Travels in Europe
• Bill Bryson
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Bryson deploys his cranky humor in this romp through European capitals. While he doesn't do much to displace national stereotypes, this book is nonetheless great fun to read and insightful on the quirks of character.
(EUR25, $14.95)
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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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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings
• Peter Sawyer
• HISTORY
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An insightful overview of the Viking Age in Norway and abroad, illustrated throughout and featuring essays by 12 experts.
(VIK18, $27.95)
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Peer Gynt
• Henrik Ibsen
• LITERATURE
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The last of Ibsen's verse plays, based on the Norwegian folk hero.
(NOR13, $12.95)
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The Poetic Edda
• Carolyne Larrington
• LITERATURE
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The Norse-Icelandic poems of mythological deities are translated into modern English.
(SCN25, $14.95)
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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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The Sagas of Icelanders
• Jane Smiley
• Robert Kellog
• EXPLORATION
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Nine sagas and six tales composed between 1000 and 1500, including an account of Leif Eriksson's voyage to North America, all newly translated. With an introduction by Jane Smiley.
(ICL13, $22.00)
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Scandinavia Map
• HEMA Maps
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A double-sided map of northern and southern Scandinavia at a scale of 1:800,000.
(SCN16, $12.95)
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Seven Viking Romances
• Hermann Palssom
• Paul Edwards
• ANTHOLOGY
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Entertaining sagas telling of Viking kings, adventurers and gods.
(VIK04, $15.00)
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Southern Scandinavia Map
• Kummerly & Frey Maps
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A colorful road map of Scandinavia.
(SCN07, $12.95)
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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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Vikings, The North Atlantic Saga
• William Fitzhugh
• Elisabeth Ward
• HISTORY
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An extensively illustrated volume of Viking culture, history and exploration that focuses especially on voyages to North America. Published in conjunction with a Smithsonian exhibit, it features essays and 400 color photographs.
(VIK11, $34.95)
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Vinland Sagas, Norse Discovery of America
• Magnus Magnusson
• EXPLORATION
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These Icelandic sagas, as edited by the great Magnus Magnusson, tell the compelling story of the Norse discovery of America five centuries before the arrival of Christopher Columbus.
(VIK03, $13.00)
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