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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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ICELAND: REYKJAVIK TO THE GLACIERS

Worth Looking For

Footprint Reykjavik


by Laura Dixon

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

A compact guide divided between general overview and practical travel detail. (ICL40, $12.95)

An Illustrated History of the First World War


by John Keegan

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 448 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

An illustrated edition of Keegan's outstanding history of the Great War (WAR16, $50.00)

Summer at Little Lava, A Season at the Edge of the World

Summer at Little Lava, A Season at the Edge of the World


by Charles Fergus

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

A summer in Iceland, weaving folklore, history and lyrical descriptions of nature. (ICL09, $24.00)

Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth

Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth


by Maurice Krafft

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 175 PAGES
  • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE

By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992), this pocket guide features hundreds of full-color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. (GEO06, $15.95)

Icelandic Journals

Icelandic Journals


by William Morris

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1996
  • HARD COVER
  • 187 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

A classic record of a six-week journey to Iceland by the 19th-century poet and designer, brimming with lyrical descriptions of the landscape and scattered with references to the sagas. Based on this enchanting record, the out-of-shape Morris seems to have had the adventure of his life. (ICE01, $32.95)

Last Places, A Journey in the North

Last Places, A Journey in the North


by Lawrence Millman | Paul Theroux

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 242 PAGES

Millman explores the culture and history of the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland in this often-hilarious account of his travels in the wake of the ancient Vikings. (ARC54, $15.95)

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