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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $83, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXNTH46)		  
Eyewitness Guide Amsterdam  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 312 PAGES
A wonderful guide to Amsterdam, filled with 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. Includes Rotterdam and Delft. (NTH01, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Amsterdam
The Undutchables  •  Colin White
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2010 •  PAPER  • 308 PAGES
A laugh-out-loud, irreverent guide to Dutch character and habits, including how to drink coffee and why you shouldn't even think about haggling over prices. (NTH12, $16.00)		   The Undutchables
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)		   Amsterdam, A Traveler's Literary Companion
A Worldly Art  •  Mariet Westermann
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2005 •  PAPER  • 208 PAGES
This appreciative analysis of Dutch art in its Golden Age features 100 exemplary illustrations of masters, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch and Frans Hals. With 100 color illustrations. (NTH46, $25.00)		   A Worldly Art
Amsterdam Map  •  Borch Maps
2011 •  MAP
A laminated, folded map of the city center, at a scale of 1:11,000. Two Sides. 19.5X26 inches. (NTH36, $8.95)		   Amsterdam Map



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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)
 		  
Eyewitness Guide The Netherlands  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Gorgeously illustrated and filled with excellent maps, this compact book covers Holland, its history, traditions, cultures and sights. With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations. (NTH71, $26.00)
 		  
Fodor's Amsterdam's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This slim guide to essential highlights includes an excellent map of the city center and can easily be slipped in your pocket. (NTH16, $11.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
Xenophobe's Guide to the Dutch  •  Rodney Bolt   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This irreverent pocket guide to cultural awareness is both insightful -- and entertaining. (NTH137, $7.95)
 		  
An Island in Time, The Biography of a Village  •  Geert Mak   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Mak returns to Jorwerd, the small Netherlands village of his childhood, to spend time with the villagers and learn both the pleasures and contemporary challenges of small town life. (NTH131, $15.95)
 		  
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer  •  David Winner   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A British journalist, Winner interviews football stars -- along with architects, political scientists and novelists -- in this insightful, humorous look at the transformation of Dutch society since the 1970s. (NTH56, $15.95)
 		  
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, $30.00)
 		  
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, $25.00)
 		  
Tulipomania  •  Mike Dash   • HISTORY  •  The story of the world's most coveted flower and the extraordinary passion it aroused, this vivid history traces the story of the tulip from its origins on the Turkish steppes to an absurdly coveted object in Europe and its key role in the financial follies of 17th-century Holland. (NTH30, $13.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
The Tulip Anthology  •  Anna Pavord  •  Ron van Dongen   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • NEW  •  Presented in a deluxe hardcover. 33% off the retail price! Pointed Pink and yellow Blushing Beauty, Insulinde, Absalon and fantastically colored Rembrandt and many more tulips are photographed in sumptuous full color in this portfolio of the coveted flowers, grown and photographed by van Dongen. The close-ups are augmented by depictions in the tulip in art and history. With an introductory essay by the equally besotted Anna Pavord. (NTH135, $40.00)
 		  
Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art  •  Rudd Priam   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This handsome book reproduces highlights from the astounding collection of 17th-century masterpieces at the Rijksmuseum. (NTH127, $39.95)
 		  
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, $13.00)
 		  
Girl With a Pearl Earring  •  Tracy Chevalier   • LITERATURE  •  Chevalier's richly drawn novel imagines the story behind Vermeer's mysterious portrait of a turbaned girl with a pearl earring. (NTH25, $15.00)
 		  
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, $16.00)
 		  
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, $16.00)
 		  
The Twin  •  Gerbrand Bakker   • LITERATURE  •  Bakker's spare, tender ode evokes life on a rural farm in the Dutch countryside. (NTH130, $16.00)
 		  
Tulip Fever  •  Deborah Moggach   • LITERATURE  •  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, $15.00)
 		  
 
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