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All Along the Rhine: Recipes, Wine and Lore from Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and Holland
• Kay Shaw Nelson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A tribute to the Rhine Valley, its history, culture and especially its food. Combining over 130 authentic recipes with small bits of background information, this is a delightful introduction to the culinary traditions of the region.
(GER111, $14.95)
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Amsterdam Map
• Borch Maps
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A laminated, folded map of the city center, at a scale of 1:11,000.
(NTH36, $7.95)
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Art Book Van Gogh: A Profound and Tormented Genius - His Life in Paintings
• Anna Torterolo
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A colorful survey of the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh.
(NTH51, $12.95)
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Baedeker's Netherlands
• Fodor's
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact and colorful guide to the country, featuring photographs and a useful pull-out map.
(NTH38, $25.00)
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Benelux Map
• Michelin Travel Publications
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A self-folding map covering the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg at a scale of 1:400,000.
(NTH03, $11.95)
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Birds of Europe
• Killian Mullarney
• Lars Svensson
• Dan Zetterstrom
• Peter J. Grant
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent.
(FG47, $29.95)
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The Black Tulip
• Alexandre Dumas
• LITERATURE
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A gripping classic about love and adventure and tulips. In 17th-century Holland, Cornelius von Baerle is falsely accused and jailed. He fights for his freedom with the aid of his jailer's beautiful daughter.
(NTH84, $13.00)
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Blue Guide Amsterdam
• Charles Ford
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide in the well known series, this book provides detailed coverage of the history, art and architecture of Amsterdam. Serious-minded travelers will not want to be without it.
(NTH15, $19.95)
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Blue Guide the Netherlands
• Rachel Esner
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide to Holland, heavily focused on art and architecture.
(NTH54, $24.95)
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Bruegel
• Walter S. Gibson
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An illustrated biography of Bruegel the Elder in the "World of Art" series.
(NTH41, $14.95)
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Citizen Soldiers
• Stephen Ambrose
• HISTORY
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Ambrose's account of the battles fought in the year between D-Day and the German surrender, from the U.S. Army's perspective.
(WAR19, $18.00)
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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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The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
• Vincent Van Gogh
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A handsome three volume set containing all the available letters written by Vincent Van Gogh.
(NTH35, $100.00)
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Dutch Painting 1600-1800
• Seymour Slive
• Jakob Rosenberg
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A generously illustrated, scholarly history of 200 years of Dutch art.
(NTH48, $37.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Amsterdam
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A wonderful guide to Amsterdam, filled with detailed drawings, photographs and thumbnail sketches. The highly visual format covers a wide range of information and is very well indexed. Slim and attractive, it also includes detailed maps and cutaway drawings of landmarks.
(NTH01, $23.00)
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Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700
• Hans Vlieghe
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A lavishly illustrated overview of the art of the southern Netherlands from 1585-1700.
(BLG07, $85.00)
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Flemish Cities Explored
• Derek Blyth
• GUIDEBOOK
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A walking guide to well-known towns in Belgium, covering the history and culture of Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent as well as Leuven, Mechelen and Ostend.
(BLG05, $24.95)
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Girl With a Pearl Earring
• Peter Webber
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A historical drama set in 17th century Holland, about a girl working as a servant and model to the painter Johannes Vermeer.
(NTH75, $26.98)
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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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An Illustrated History of the First World War
• John Keegan
• HISTORY
• OUT OF PRINT
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An illustrated edition of Keegan's outstanding history of the Great War
(WAR16, $50.00)
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Insight Compact Guide Holland
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A pocket guide
(NTH20, $8.95)
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Knopf Guide Amsterdam
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A slender, attractive guide to Amsterdam with background and some practical information.
(NTH17, $25.00)
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (Penguin Classics)
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Ronald De Leeuw
• Arnold Pomerans
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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There are many versions of Van Gogh's letters, but this one is as good as any, a thorough selection of writing that highlights the artist's love for his art and family.
(NTH52, $16.00)
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Lonely Planet Netherlands
• Ryan Ver Berkmoes
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical, comprehensive travel guide.
(NTH50, $19.99)
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Lust for Life
• Irving Stone
• LITERATURE
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Emotionally charged, controversial and utterly readable, this well known, fictionalized biography probes the life of Van Gogh from his auspicious beginnings as a London art dealer to his death at 37.
(NTH18, $17.00)
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Making of the Middle Ages
• Richard W. Southern
• HISTORY
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A classic history of 10th to 13th century Europe, covering culture, politics and major personalites.
(EUR105, $19.00)
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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 Holland
• Michelin Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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A thorough introduction to Holland in the classic Michelin style, featuring brief descriptions of all the major attractions.
(NTH49, $20.00)
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National Geographic Traveler Amsterdam
• National Geographic
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact guide featuring National Geographic's usual attention to maps and color photography.
(NTH53, $22.95)
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Open Road's Amsterdam Made Easy
• Andy Herbach
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated pocket guide to the city with a focus on walking tours, off-the-beaten-track neighborhoods, and day trips.
(NTH80, $9.95)
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Pilgrimages, The Great Adventure of the Middle Ages
• John Ure
• HISTORY
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(EUR202, $15.95)
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Praise of Folly and Letter to Maarten Dorp
• Desiderius Erasmus
• LITERATURE
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The classic 1509 satire of false piety and clerical greed.
(NTH44, $13.00)
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Rembrandt
• Mariet Westermann
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A study of Rembrandt van Rijn's life and art in the context of his times. It's a volume in Phaidon's "Art and Ideas" series, which seeks to chronicle how philosophical and historical trends gain outward expression as art. Illustrated in full color.
(NTH47, $22.95)
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Rembrandt by Himself
• Rembrandt HarmenszoonVan Rijn
• Christopher White
• Quentin Buvelot
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This exhibition catalog focuses on Rembrandt's self-portraiture, featuring beautiful reproductions of 86 recently restored paintings, drawings and etchings.
(NTH82, $60.00)
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Rembrandt Creates Rembrandt, Art and Ambition in Leiden, 1629-1631
• Alan Chong
• Arthur K. Wheelock
• Hilliard T. Goldfarb
• Michael Zell
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This study of Rembrandt's work, edited by four art historians and Rembrandt scholars, centers around the years 1629-1631, when Rembrandt moved from the small Dutch town of Leiden to the more metropolitan Amsterdam.
(NTH81, $50.00)
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Rembrandt, Master of the Portrait
• Pascal Bonafoux
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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With over 200 illustrations, this pocket-size encyclopedia traces the life and career of Rembrandt. It offers insight into his influence on the art of the portrait -- an illuminating companion for any visit to Amsterdam and its museums.
(NTH11, $12.95)
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Rembrandt, The Master and his Workshop
• Christopher Leslie Brown
• Jan Kelch
• Peter van Thiel
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A comprehensive and scholarly overview of Rembrandt's work, with an emphasis on what was produced in his workshop. Featuring hundreds of black-and-white and color illustrations.
(NTH83, $39.95)
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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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Rough Guide The Netherlands
• Martin Dunford
• GUIDEBOOK
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This comprehensive guide includes an excellent historical and cultural overview of Holland.
(NTH39, $18.95)
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Rubens
• Kristin Lohse Belkin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Belkin chronicles the 17th century artist Peter Paul Rubens from his early family life to his influential interactions with the Italian Renaissance masters and finally to Antwerp, where he rose to fame as a renowned painter and diplomat to the royal courts of Europe.
(NTH42, $19.95)
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The Thirty Years' War
• Geoffrey Parker
• HISTORY
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A scholarly history of the major European conflict of the 17th century. Among the outcomes were the annexation of Alsace by France, the annexation of Pomerania by Sweden and the legalization of Calvinism in Germany.
(EUR115, $39.95)
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Tulip Fever
• Deborah Moggach
• LITERATURE
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A surprise bestseller, set in 1630s Amsterdam; in this gripping novel, a man contracts the talented painter Jan Van Loos to paint a portrait of him and his beautiful wife, Sophia. A vivid drama unfolds as a mutual attraction develops between Van Loos and Sophia.
(NTH31, $14.00)
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The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi
• Arthur Japin
• Ina Rilke
• LITERATURE
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An acclaimed debut novel by a young Dutch writer, concerning the tragic fortunes of two Dutch-educated West African princes circa 1830, whose schooling renders them neither Dutch nor Ashanti.
(NTH45, $14.00)
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Western Europe Map
• Freytag & Berndt
• COMING IN SEPTEMBER
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A colorful physical relief map of Western Europe, at a scale of 1:2,000,000.
(EUR13, $11.95)
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