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GRAND EUROPEAN TOUR
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Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000
• Barry Cunliffe
HISTORY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 520 PAGES
In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe views Europe not in terms of states and shifting political land boundaries but as a geographical niche particularly favored in facing many seas. These seas, and Europe's great transpeninsular rivers, ensured a rich diversity of natural resources while also encouraging the dynamic interaction of peoples across networks of communication and exchange.
(EUR310, $30.00) |
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Eyewitness Guide Budapest
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 270 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to the city featuring excellent maps and solid information on culture and history in addition to a detailed neighborhood-by-neighborhood overview of attractions. With hundreds of photographs.
(HGR15, $25.00) |
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Frommer's Budapest Day by Day
• Robert Smyth
GUIDEBOOK •
2012 •
PAPER
This shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, features excellent suggestions for everything from food and hotels to sightseeing and shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center.
(HGR65, $13.99) |
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A History of Slovakia, The Struggle for Survival
• Stanislav K. Kirschbaum
HISTORY •
1996 •
PAPER
• 350 PAGES
A solid history of Slovakia tracing the nation's roots from the first arrival on the Danubian Plain to Slovakia's declaration of independence in 1993. Slovak-leaning in perspective, this book includes good discussions of the Communist period and Slovakia's relationships with Hungary and the Czechs. The author, born in Bratislava and raised in Canada, is a professor at York University in Toronto.
(EUR93, $20.00) |
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Lola Montez, A Life
• Bruce Seymour
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1998 •
PAPER
• 480 PAGES
Lola's most prominent lover was Ludwig I of Bavaria, builder of famous castles and the 19th-century Main-Danube canal. It is said the king's infatuation with Lola, and her meddling in Munich university politics, were the immediate causes of the 1848 revolution in Bavaria.
(EUR89, $45.00) |
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Cathedrals and Castles, The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages
• Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 175 PAGES
This pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages features hundreds of drawings, color illustrations and a brief chronology. Take it along to gain a better appreciation of the Middle Ages and its legacy in Europe.
(MED07, $15.95) |
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