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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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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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(ALP30, $29.95)
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Architectural Guide Basel, 1980-2004
• Lutz Windhofel
• GUIDEBOOK
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This guide showcases 108 projects built between 1980 and 2004 in Basel Tri-National, an important center for modern architecture.
(SWZ54, $29.95)
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Basel City Map
• Kummerly & Frey Maps
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A foldup city map guide at a scale of 1:16,000.
(SWZ56, $9.95)
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Basel in the Age of Burckhardt
• Lionel Gossman
• HISTORY
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In this scholarly, engaging history Gossman looks at the 19th century independent city-republic of Basel through the lens of four of its key figures -- sociologist Johann Jacob Bachofen, historian Jacob Burckhard, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his colleague and neighbor, theologian Franz Overbeck.
(SWZ57, $28.00)
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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An extraordinary book of aerial black-and-white photographs of mountains, glaciers and ice accompanied by explanatory text. This beautiful photograph collection introduces the major surface features and varieties of glaciers.
(SCI07, $35.00)
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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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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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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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Lonely Planet Central Europe
• Krzysztof Dydnski
• Steve Fallon
• Anthony Haywood
• Mark Honan
• GUIDEBOOK
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This comprehensive regional guide covers Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and their neighbors in detail. With maps, color photographs and information on history, culture and attractions.
(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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Matterhorn Map
• Swiss Government
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A topographic map of the Matterhorn, published by the Swiss government at a scale of 1:25,000.
(SWZ50, $16.95)
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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, $22.00)
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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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Michelin Green Guide Switzerland
• Michelin Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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A survey of the cities, villages and sites of Switzerland in the classic Michelin style.
(SWZ17, $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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Niki De Saint Phalle And Jean Tinguely Posters
• Isabel Siben
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A bold, lively collection of reproductions from the duo's most important posters. Tinguely (1925-1991) grew up in Basel, which built museum dedicated to his machine sculptures, reliefs and drawings.
(ART76, $25.00)
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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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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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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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Swiss Made
• Steven Spier
• Tschanz, Martin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A look at the best of Switerzland's architects and architecture.
(SWZ52, $45.00)
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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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Switzerland Southwest Map
• Michelin
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A detailed travelers map at a scale 1:200,000, covering from Zurich south to Zermatt and Aosta and across to Geneva.
(SWZ34, $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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Tour of the Matterhorn
• Hilary Sharp
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact guide to the 8-10 day hike around the Matterhorn, as well as shorter variants and peak ascent. With color and black-and-white photos, maps and elevations.
(SWZ49, $19.95)
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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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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 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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Wallpaper City Guide Basel
• Wallpaper Magazine Editors
• GUIDEBOOK
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This sleek city guide focuses on art, design and architecture, with recommendations on where to eat, sleep and drink, as well as featured neighborhood and local shopping destinations all conveniently marked in tabbed sections.
(SWZ53, $8.95)
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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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