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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 in 130 authentic recipes.
(GER111, $14.95)
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Alps Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A detailed travel map of the Alps, imported from Austria, at a scale of 1:600,000.
(ALP07, $12.95)
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The Alps, A Cultural History
• Andrew Beattie
• HISTORY
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Beattie explores the turbulent past and vibrant present of the Alps, where early pioneers of tourism, mountaineering and scientific research have all left their mark.
(ALP30, $35.00)
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Annecy-Lausanne Map 45
• IGN
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An excellently detailed map of the Haute-Savoie at a scale of 1:100,000.
(FRN390, $11.95)
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Baedeker's Austria
• Baedeker's Travel Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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The much-revised classic with map.
(AST56, $25.00)
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The Bernese Alps, Switzerland
• Kev Reynolds
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, practical guide to exploring the high mountains, glaciers and valley walks of Interlaken, Grindelwald and Kanderstag. This guide covers not only the Bernese Oberland but also the south side of the Jungfrau.
(SWZ39, $22.95)
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The Best of the Alps
• Jay Cowan
• HISTORY
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A tour of 11 well known resorts throughout the Alps, illustrated in full-color photos. With descriptions of popular activities, events and a short history of each resort.
(ALP18, $19.95)
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Birds of Britain & Europe
• Hermann Heinzel
• Richard Fitter
• John Parslow
• FIELD GUIDE
• OUT OF PRINT
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This masterfully organized Collins Pocket Guide, featuring 3,000 color illustrations covers the birds of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
(EUR49, $27.50)
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Bradt Guide Switzerland: Rail, Road, Lake
• Anthony Lambert
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to traveling in Switzerland.
(SWZ27, $23.95)
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Central Alps, Tyrol Map
• Borch Maps
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A nicely detailed, full color laminated map of the Tyrol region at a scale of 1:285,000. The double-sided map covers western Austria, southern Germany and the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy.
(ALP29, $10.95)
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Chamonix to Zermatt, The Walker's Haute Route
• Kev Reynolds
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to the classic Haute Route, covering each segment of the long-distance walk, and including an introduction to the region.
(ALP21, $19.95)
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Chamonix, Mont Blanc Massif (East)
• IGN
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This fabulously detailed topographic map (scale 1:25,000) shows the eastern portion of the Mont Blanc group.
(FRN314, $16.95)
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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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Daisy Miller
• Henry James
• LITERATURE
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A classic story of a young American woman's innocent flirtation and its misinterpretation by a sophisticated European man, set in Lac Leman and Chillon. This is James' first fictional work to gain mass popularity and one of his great American female portraits.
(SWZ09, $7.00)
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Dolomites Trekking, Alta Via 1 & Alta Via 2
• Henry Stedman
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide to walks and treks in the Dolomites featuring 51 detailed route maps, village plans and concise information on where to go, and what to see and do.
(ITL253, $22.95)
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Essential Switzerland
• Gerry Crawshaw
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact guidebook with background information, regional maps, and practical information on all the major sites.
(SWZ16, $8.95)
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Eyewitness Guide Austria
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This superb guide to all of Austria features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions.
(AST59, $25.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Switzerland
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, thoroughly illustrated guide, featuring over 900 photographs, good maps, and plenty of information on hiking in the Swiss Alps, natural and tourist attractions, and the history and arts of Switzerland.
(SWZ45, $25.00)
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A Farewell to Arms
• Ernest Hemingway
• LITERATURE
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Set in snowy Switzerland and the rainy Italian lake country during World War I, this semi-autobiographical novel chronicles the romance between a British nurse and an American ambulance driver.
(ITL384, $15.00)
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Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
• Mary Shelley
• LITERATURE
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This classic gothic novel, set around Lake Geneva, was written in 1816.
(SWZ10, $7.95)
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French or Foe? Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France
• Polly Platt
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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With humor, directness and great insight, this compact book is an expert and entertaining guide to the French and how to get along with them. The expanded third edition addresses France's romance with cell phones and includes a short chapter of recent vignettes.
(FRN54, $16.95)
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German, A Language Map
• Kristine K. Kershul
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers.
(GER165, $7.95)
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Glacier Ice
• Austin Post
• Edward R. LaChapelle
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers by two devoted men of ice. The text is by Ed LaChapelle, an avalanche researcher, glaciologist, mountaineer, skier, author and professor, who died in 2007 at 80 of a heart attack while on the slopes in Colorado. Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers along the North Pacific Coast of North America and into the interior ranges of Alaska is supplemented with groundbased photographs from the Himalayas, Switzerland, Chile, and other parts of the world.
(SCI07, $27.95)
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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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Grenoble/Mont Blanc Map
• IGN
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A regional map of eastern France.
(FRN256, $11.95)
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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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Homestead
• Rosini Lippi
• LITERATURE
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Set firmly in a small village in the Austrian Alps, these 12 interlinking stories are almost ethnographic in their rich detail of small town life. The stories range from the turn-of-the-century to the present, accurately charting change in the remote village.
(ALP11, $13.00)
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I'm Not Stiller
• Max Frisch
• LITERATURE
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A masterpiece of post-WWII fiction about a man who claims not to be himself.
(SWZ08, $20.00)
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Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier
• Brenda Fowler
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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The complete story of the discovery of and controversy surrounding the frozen corpse of a prehistoric man found in the Tyrolian Alps.
(ALP20, $15.00)
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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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Karen Brown's Switzerland, Exceptional Places to Stay & Itineraries
• Karen Brown
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to lodging of character and itineraries.
(SWZ28, $19.95)
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La Nouvelle Heloise
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• LITERATURE
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Rousseau may be best known for his political philosophy, but in this novel we see his softer side. This is the passionate story told through the letters of two lovers in a small town at the foot of the Alps.
(SWZ19, $28.00)
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Lac d'Annecy Map
• IGN
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A detailed walking map of Lake D'Annecy and the immediate surroundings with travel information.
(FRN489, $12.95)
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A Life of Her Own
• Emilie Carles
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This memoir of life in the French Alps was a French bestseller when first published in 1977.
(FRN468, $16.00)
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Lonely Planet Central Europe
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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With dozens of maps, color photographs and sections on history and culture, this practical guide introduces Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and their neighbors.
(EUR94, $28.99)
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Lonely Planet Switzerland
• Damien Simonis
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series.
(SWZ43, $19.99)
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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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The Man Who Planted Trees
• Jean Giono
• Michael McMurdy
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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Told with affection and lyrical simplicity, beloved French novelist Giono (1895-1970) turns the life of Elzeard Bouffier, a shepherd turned tree-planter, into a fable of hope, forests and the power of the individual to change the world.
(ALP12, $10.00)
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The Measure of Her Powers, An M.F.K. Fisher Reader
• M. F. K. Fisher
• LITERATURE
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A fat, judicious selection of M.F.K. Fisher's writings, which spanned a lifetime and chronicled adventures (culinary and otherwise) in France, Switzerland and Italy, on shipboard and in her native California.
(CUL01, $22.95)
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Michelin Green Guide French Alps
• Michelin Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact, practical guide to the region in the classic Michelin style.
(FRN197, $21.95)
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Monte Rosa Map
• MapLink
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A topographic map of the Monte Rosa massif, which straddles the Swiss-Italian border.
(SWZ41, $14.00)
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Mountaineering, The Freedom of the Hills
• The Mountaineers
• GUIDEBOOK
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The essential handbook for mountaineers, in a seventh revised edition. With chapters on outdoor fundamentals, rock, snow, ice, and alpine climbing, emergency prevention and response, the mountain environment, and gear.
(GEN267, $29.95)
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The Mountains of My Life
• Walter Bonatti
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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The candid memoir of the great Italian climber and his adventures in the Alps, the Himalayas, and South America, including Bonatti's account of what happened on the summit of K2 in 1954.
(ALP25, $16.95)
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The Railfan Guide to Switzerland
• George H. Drury
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to the trains of Switzerland.
(SWZ25, $17.95)
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Rhone-Alpes Map 523
• Michelin Travel Publications
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A detailed map of the Alps along the Italian and Swiss border from Geneva and Grenoble west to the Rhone, including Lyon and Valence.
(FRN255, $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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Rick Steves' Switzerland Guide
• Rick Steves
• GUIDEBOOK
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A personable, practical guide in the growing series by travel guru Rick Steves.
(SWZ46, $19.95)
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Rough Guide Switzerland
• Matthew Teller
• GUIDEBOOK
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This comprehensive guide includes an excellent historical and cultural overview of Switzerland.
(SWZ24, $20.99)
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Schlepping Through the Alps, My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd
• Sam Apple
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A hilarious and touching exploration of history, tradition and sheep. This account of travels in Austria with Hans Breuer, a shepherd who sings Yiddish folk songs to his sheep, is admittedly a comic quest, but it also delves into some of the darker corners of Austria's history in World War II.
(AST74, $14.95)
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Seven Summits
• Dick Bass
• Frank Wells
• Rick Ridgeway
• EXPLORATION
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Count-down: Aconcagua, McKinley, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Kosciusko, Vinson and Everest.
(EXP48, $15.99)
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Solo Faces
• James Salter
• LITERATURE
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The story of an American climber who, dissatisfied with his everyday life, travels to the Alps of southern France to tackle mountain peaks. The prose is glorious and the mountain-climbing scenes are as vivid as they get.
(ALP14, $14.00)
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St Gervais les Bains, Mont Blanc (West)
• IGN
• COMING IN DECEMBER
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This fabulously detailed topographic map (scale 1:25,000) shows the western portion of the Mont Blanc group.
(FRN315, $14.95)
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Swiss Bernese Oberland
• Philip & Loretta Alspach
• GUIDEBOOK
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A brief, illustrated guide to mountains, lakes and villages of the Bernese Oberland. With 50 color pictures, maps and good information on food, drink, and the mountain villages of Interlaken, Grindelwald, Wengen, Murren and Kandersteg.
(SWZ38, $18.95)
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Switzerland Map
• HEMA Maps
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A colorful, shaded relief map of Switzerland at a scale of 1:303,000.
(SWZ11, $12.95)
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Switzerland Southeast Map
• Michelin Travel Publications
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A detailed map covering southern Switzerland and neighboring areas of Italy and Austria.
(SWZ36, $8.95)
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Tour of Mont Blanc, Complete Trekking Guide
• Kev Reynolds
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact guide to the classic Mont Blanc circuit, which includes a detailed guide to each section of the tour, as well as the author's own personable, encouraging remarks.
(ALP24, $19.95)
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A Tramp Abroad
• Mark Twain
• David Eggers
• Kerry Driscoll
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Written 11 years after "Innocents Abroad," this is Twain's second foray into European travel. Filled with his characteristic wit and humorous observations, it documents his journeys through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy.
(EUR78, $14.95)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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Trentino Alto-Adige Map
• Touring Club Italiano
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A colorful regional map of the Italian Dolomites at a scale of 1:200,000.
(ITL42, $12.95)
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The Walker's Literary Companion
• Robert Gilbert
• Anne Wallace
• Jeffrey Robinson
• ANTHOLOGY
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A diverse sampling of literature on the pleasures of walking, representing philosophers, naturalists, outcasts, athletes and intellectuals from Plato to Frank O'Hara.
(WLK08, $24.00)
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Walking
• Henry David Thoreau
• REFERENCE
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You may want to carry this small volume in your daypack for inspiration. In it, Thoreau offers his meditations on the spiritual benefits of this most civilized form of travel.
(WLK04, $9.95)
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Walking in the Valais
• Kev Reynolds
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive walking guide to Switzerland's Pennine Alps.
(SWZ29, $22.95)
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Walking in the Alps
• Kev Reynolds
• GUIDEBOOK
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A nicely illustrated, authoritative guide to hiking throughout the Alps. Reynolds covers a range of activities from day hikes to the classic hut-to-hut mountain walks.
(SWZ44, $22.95)
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Walking Switzerland, The Swiss Way: From Vacation Apartments, Hotels, Mountain Inns, and Huts
• Marcia Lieberman
• GUIDEBOOK
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This guide includes all the information you need to plan your own Swiss walking tour.
(SWZ03, $16.95)
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Western Austria Tyrol Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A colorful regional map of western Austria, including the Tyrolean region.
(AST05, $10.95)
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Zurich Map
• ITMB
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A map of Zurich at a scale of 1:8,000.
(SWZ47, $8.95)
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