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Amsterdam & the Netherlands
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/LO3355. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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Eyewitness Guide Amsterdam
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
2007
PAPER
312 PAGES
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, with color-coded pages for easy use. Slim and attractive, it also includes detailed maps and cutaway drawings of landmarks.
(NTH01, $23.00) |
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The Undutchables, An Observation of the Netherlands, Its Culture and Inhabitants
Colin White
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2006
PAPER
310 PAGES
Covering topics such as home, money, children and politics, this inspired and funny book explores the myth of the stolid Dutch. It's a laugh-out-loud, irreverent guide to understanding Dutch character and habits, including how to drink coffee and why you shouldn't even think about haggling over prices.
(NTH12, $15.00) |
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Amsterdam, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Manfred Wolf
ANTHOLOGY
2001
PAPER
238 PAGES
Organized by district, these 17 contemporary short stories by modern Dutch writers, including Cees Nooteboom and Geert Mak, are all set among the canals, cafes and neighborhoods of Amsterdam.
(NTH33, $13.95) |
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A Worldly Art, The Dutch Republic 1585-1718
Mariet Westermann
ART & ARCHITECTURE
2005
PAPER
208 PAGES
A slim, illustrated analysis of Dutch art in its golden age, divided by genre. Artists of the era included the masters Rembrandt, Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch and Frans Hals, painters whose interest in material detail resulted in canvases brimming with Dutch daily life. With 100 color illustrations.
(NTH46, $25.00) |
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Amsterdam Map
Borch Maps
2006
MAP
A laminated, folded map of the city center, at a scale of 1:11,000.
(NTH36, $7.95) |
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Blue Guide Amsterdam
Charles Ford
GUIDEBOOK
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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Dutch, A Rough Guide Phrasebook
Rough Guide
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
An A-Z pocket dictionary, phrasebook and mini-guide to the Dutch language.
(NTH74, $6.99) |
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Dutch, Start Speaking Today
Language/30
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A 90-minute crash course in Dutch featured in two audio tapes and a phrasebook.
(NTH73, $21.95) |
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Fodor's Amsterdam's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
This slim guide includes an excellent map of the city center and can easily be slipped in your pocket.
(NTH16, $11.95) |
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Insight Guide Holland
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This beautiful guide features wonderful photographs and essays prepared by experts on Holland's attractions, history and culture. With dozens of excellent color maps.
(NTH02, $23.95) |
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Lonely Planet Amsterdam
Andrew Bender
GUIDEBOOK
A practical guide in the popular series.
(NTH106, $19.99) |
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Wallpaper City Guide Amsterdam
Wallpaper Magazine
GUIDEBOOK
A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations.
(NTH86, $8.95) |
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Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer
David Winner
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This odd book, all about soccer but not really about the sport at all, conveys the wry Dutch character in anecdote, image and history.
(NTH56, $14.95) |
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Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland
Paul Zumthor
HISTORY
First published in 1959, this richly detailed portrait of Dutch society during the golden age looks at material life of the average citizen including food, housing, holidays, industry, relations between the sexes -- and even toilet habits.
(NTH19, $26.95) |
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The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
HISTORY
A pioneering work of social and cultural history, this well translated classic is a richly detailed portrait of life, thought and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands.
(EUR17, $25.00) |
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The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806
Jonathan Israel
HISTORY
Impressive in scope (and daunting in size), we heartily recommend this massively well-researched, genuinely readable and authoritative history for travelers with a healthy appetite for history.
(NTH76, $65.00) |
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The Embarrassment of Riches
Simon Schama
HISTORY
An engaging cultural history and much more, this book is a study of the Dutch in the 17th century and their surprising challenge to Spanish rule.
(NTH04, $24.00) |
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The Tulip
Anna Pavord
HISTORY
In Holland, the tulip is not just another flower; it's a national obsession. Pavord traces the history of the magnificent flower through the last few hundred years, with stories about how much it was treasured and her own reflections on its beauty.
(NTH21, $14.95) |
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Tulipomania
Mike Dash
HISTORY
In this witty tale, historian Mike Dash traces the story of the tulip from its origins on the Turkish steppes to its important role as the subject of financial folly in 17th-century Holland.
(NTH30, $13.95) |
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Dutch Painting (World of Art)
Rudolf Herman Fuchs
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Starting with Van Eyck and his 15th-century contemporaries, this volume in the "World of Art" series surveys nearly 500 years of painting in the Netherlands, ending with a discussion of late 20th-century artists. Featuring almost 200 illustrations.
(NTH72, $14.95) |
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Rembrandt, Master of the Portrait
Pascal Bonafoux
ART & ARCHITECTURE
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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Vincent Van Gogh, The Passionate Eye
Pascal Bonafoux
ART & ARCHITECTURE
FAVORITE
From Paris to Asnieres, Amsterdam and Provence, this jewel of a book traces the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh, the spirited, self-destructive painter who celebrated the south of France. Engaging, compact and illustrated with hundreds of photographs.
(FRN29, $12.95) |
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My 'Dam Life, Three Years in Holland
Sean Condon
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A hilarious account of making do in Amsterdam. Sean and wife Sally relocate to the land of clogs and orange for a job that soon evaporates, leaving the duo scrambling for housing and work in a strange land. Condon is as edgy, sarcastic and insightful as ever.
(NTH70, $14.00) |
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The Diary of a Young Girl, The Definitive Edition
Anne Frank
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The classic story of an adolescent Jewish girl's life and thoughts while in hiding with her family in Nazi-occupied Holland. A new edition with added material.
(NTH05, $12.95) |
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Headlong, A Novel
Michael Frayn
LITERATURE
A Bruegel canvas claims a central role in Frayn's hilarious tale of an art heist gone awry. Frayn weaves detailed research about the Old Master with a philosopher's foiled plot to appropriate the valuable masterpiece from a boor he feels is unworthy of it.
(NTH68, $15.00) |
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Love in Amsterdam
Nicolas Freeling
MYSTERY
Freeling's moody police procedural introducing Amsterdam detective Piet Van der Valk, orginally published in 1962 (and made into a television series in the 1970s).
(NTH101, $14.95) |
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Murder in Amsterdam, Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerance
Ian Buruma
MYSTERY
Buruma, a Dutch expat who spent years in Japan, turns crime reporter as he travels back to Holland to examine the murder of filmmaker Theo Van Gogh by an Islamic extremist.
(NTH91, $15.00) |
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The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi
Arthur Japin
Ina Rilke
LITERATURE
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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