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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $87, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXEUR352A)		  
Black Sea  •  Neal Ascherson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1996 •  PAPER  • 306 PAGES
A vivid and entertaining exploration of the Black Sea, with its unique mingling of cultures. Ascherson skillfully interweaves nature, politics, and culture as he describes both the history of the region and the current state of affairs. (RUS46, $19.00)		   Black Sea
Borderland, A Journey through the History of Ukraine  •  Anna Reid
HISTORY •  2000 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES
A lively survey of the traditions and history of Ukraine, organized geographically. Reid, who was for three years the Kiev correspondent for the Economist, combines first-person reports, interviews and history in this insightful portrait of the region. (RUS84, $17.00)		   Borderland, A Journey through the History of Ukraine
Turkish Reflections, A Biography of a Place  •  Mary Lee Settle
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1991 •  PAPER  • 253 PAGES
A cross-country odyssey from the Aegean shores to the Bosporus and interior by an author and poet who lived in Bodrum 20 years before. Settle's captivating travelogue is a richly detailed portrait of contemporary Turkey, its people, monasteries, myths, archaeological treasures and living traditions. Exemplary. (TKY08, $16.99)		   Turkish Reflections, A Biography of a Place
Eyewitness Guide Istanbul  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES
This superb guide to Istanbul features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (TKY86, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Istanbul
Russia, Ukraine Belarus Map  •  Marco Polo
2009 •  MAP
A regional map of Russia, this double-sided map shows western Russia from the Moscow and St. Petersburg to Belarus, the Ukraine and the southern shores of the Black Sea at a scale of 1:2 million. The reverse shows Russia from Armenia and Georgia across Central Asia to Lake Baikal at a scale of 1:10 million. With inset plans of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Irkutsk and Baikal, along with a terrific birdd's eye map showing Arctic Russia from Scandinavia and Murmansk across to the Kurils on the revserse. One Side. 38x57 inches. (RUS313, $15.95)		   Russia, Ukraine Belarus Map



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Istanbul Map  •  Borch Maps    •  Take it along! (TKY65, $8.95)
 		  
Bradt Guide Ukraine  •  Andrew Evans   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This guide in the popular British series features comprehensive practical information and provides a short section on the country's history and culture. With over 30 maps. (UKR12, $25.99)
 		  
1453, The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West  •  Roger Crowley   • HISTORY  •  In this well-paced history, Crowley recounts with drama the events surrounding the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. (TKY114, $15.99)
 		  
A Short History of Byzantium  •  John Julius Norwich   • HISTORY  •  A richly detailed and evocative history of the tumultuous span of the great empire from the fourth century to the 15th, brimming with intrigue, skullduggery, palace revolution and other treachery. (TKY18, $19.00)
 		  
Ancient Turkey, A Traveller's History  •  Seton Lloyd   • HISTORY  •  Turkey's archaeology and early history for the traveler by the former head of the British Archaeological Institute in Ankara. (TKY43, $28.95)
 		  
Beyond the Edge of the Sea  •  Mauricio Obregon   • HISTORY  •  The adventures of Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses and other explorers of the ancient world are recreated in this personal account of ships, navigation and geographical discovery. (MED50, $15.00)
 		  
Bury Me Standing  •  Isabel Fonseca   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This marvelous portrait of the Roma, also known as the Gypsies, offers insight into their music, foods, religions and folk traditions, and also examines their influential but complex relationship with Eastern Europe. (EUR09, $16.00)
 		  
Crescent and Star  •  Stephen Kinzer   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This insightful anecdotal report on contemporary life, culture and politics in Turkey comes from a former New York Times Istanbul bureau chief who is especially attuned to the powerful geographic position of Turkey and its multiple identities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. (TKY64, $17.00)
 		  
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856  •  Trevor Royle   • HISTORY  •  A well-researched military and diplomatic history of the Crimean War. Thorough and detailed yet readable, Royle's battlefield descriptions are especially well-done. (CCS33, $35.00)
 		  
Georgia, In the Mountains of Poetry  •  Peter Nasmyth   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A cultural portrait of the Republic of Georgia by a British journalist who has traveled extensively in the region. It's the best book on post-Soviet Georgia, updated for this third revised edition. With 170 black-and-white photographs and illustrations. (CCS10, $49.95)
 		  
Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire  •  Bernard Lewis   • HISTORY • FAVORITE  •  In this slim volume the great Islamic scholar describes the invasion of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks on May 29, 1453, evoking the city at this pivotal moment in its long history. (TKY17, $24.95)
 		  
Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917  •  Michael F. Hamm   • HISTORY  •  From medieval center to important city in Imperial Russia, this scholarly book is a wonderfully informative cultural history of the city and especially its 19th-century legacy. (RUS56, $45.00)
 		  
Lords of the Horizons  •  Jason Goodwin   • HISTORY  •  Goodwin artfully combines his modern travels with scholarship, history and reflection, capturing the outrageous personalities, events and vagaries of the 600-year-old Ottoman empire. (TKY44, $17.00)
 		  
Odessa, A History, 1794-1914  •  Patricia Herlihy   • HISTORY  •  Herlihy contrasts Odessa's rapid development as a cosmopolitan, polyglot port city, with the growing tension within its society in the years leading up to WWI in this lively scholarly history. (UKR18, $29.95)
 		  
Odessa, Genius and Death in a City of Dreams  •  Charles King   • HISTORY  •  King (Black Sea, The Moldovans) writes with verve not only of the history of this great port city but also of noteworthy personalities, including Alexander Puskin, Isaac Babel and Nobel Prize-winning biologist Ilya Mechnikov. (UKR21, $27.95)
 		  
Russia, A Concise History  •  Ronald Hingley   • HISTORY • BEST SELLER  •  Well-known scholar Hingley sketches Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to a multi-ethnic empire in this highly readable, well-illustrated brief history. (RUS04, $19.95)
 		  
The Black Sea, A History  •  Charles King   • HISTORY  •  A brisk history of the region, showing the Black Sea as uniting diverse cultures in the Balkans, Central Asia and the Middle East. (EUR173, $35.00)
 		  
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941  •  Michael Beschloss   • HISTORY  •  A bestselling, popular history of the politics and diplomacy among Allied leaders leading up to the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. (GER164, $16.00)
 		  
The Ukrainians, Unexpected Nation  •  Andrew Wilson   • HISTORY  •  An outstanding guide to modern identity, politics and history in Ukraine, highly recommended for an understanding of the geopolitics of the region and, especially, uneasy relations with mother Russia. (RUS125, $19.00)
 		  
Yalta, The Price of Peace  •  Serhii Plokhy   • HISTORY  •  Harvard historian Plokhy puts readers in the room with Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt over those tumultuous eight days in February 1945. (WAR141, $18.00)
 		  
Art of the Byzantine Era  •  David Talbot Rice   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Wide-ranging and literate, this thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art is an indispensable classic. (TKY22, $21.95)
 		  
Greeks on the Black Sea, Ancient Art from the Hermitage  •  Anna A. Trofimova   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue celebrating 175 works of ancient Greek sculpture, glass, jewelry, metalwork from the northern coast of the Black Sea. (GRE383, $70.00)
 		  
The Greeks Overseas, The Early Colonies and Trade  •  John Boardman   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  An authoritative, illustrated survey of Greek civilization throughout the Mediterranean, revised and updated for this fourth edition. (GRE150, $25.95)
 		  
World Heritage Sites  •  UNESCO Publishing   • ARCHAEOLOGY • NEW  •  How many have you visited? This beautifully illustrated compendium includes color photographs, a map and succinct description of each of the 911 archaeological sites, monuments, cities or parks inscribed by UNESCO from 1978 to 1911. (CON53, $29.95)
 		  
Balkan Ghosts, A Journey through History  •  Robert D. Kaplan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Kaplan interweaves the history, art and culture of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece with his travels in this portrait of the region. (BLK02, $17.00)
 		  
Istanbul, Memories and the City  •  Orhan Pamuk   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Nobel Prize-winner Pamuk writes with quiet grace of the city of his birth, celebrated in his many novels: a magical place of crumbling mansions and Ottoman riches, mingling Asian, Islamic, secular and European influences. (TKY99, $16.95)
 		  
Return to Ukraine  •  Ania Savage   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An engaging account of a return journey to Ukraine by a journalist who fled the country with her family in 1944. Savage interweaves history, modern travelogue and personal anecdote. (RUS126, $29.95)
 		  
The Poison King, The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy  •  Adrienne Mayor   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A gripping tale of the life of one of Rome's deadliest foes, king of ancient Pontus on the Black Sea. (CCS43, $18.95)
 		  
Flashman at the Charge  •  George MacDonald Fraser   • LITERATURE  •  In this installment in the rollicking, masterfully researched series of historical novels, our disreputable hero finds himself in Crimea -- and a participant in the Charge of the Light Brigade. (CCS29, $16.00)
 		  
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel  •  Isaac Babel   • LITERATURE  •  An authoritative edition of Isaac Babel's powerful short fiction, including his early Red Cavalry Stories and The Odessa Tales. (RUS171, $18.95)
 		  
The Cossacks  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Peter Constantine  •  Cynthia Ozick   • LITERATURE  •  A fresh translation of Tolstoy's 1863 semi-autobiographical novel about a young Muscovite and his military adventures in the rough-and-ready Caucasus. The book is, in part, a portrait of the Cossacks as well as an account of falling in love. (RUS241, $13.00)
 		  
The Oracle of Stamboul, A Novel  •  Michael David Lukas   • LITERATURE  •  A gloriously escapist story of a beautiful, crumbling empire and an extraordinary girl, this atmospheric first novel follows the fate of Eleanor, born in 1877 to a rug merchant in Constanta on the Black Sea, in the Sultan's court in late 19th-century Constantinople. (TKY246, $13.99)
 		  
The Towers of Trebizond  •  Rose MacAulay  •  Jan Morris   • LITERATURE • COMING IN OCTOBER  •  Mixing high farce, archaeology, history and lively travel writing, MacAulay's impossibly clever short novel follows the adventures of English missionaries traipsing across Turkey. (TKY15, $16.00)
 		  
The Voyage of Argo  •  Apollonius of Rhodes  •  Emil V. Rieu   • LITERATURE  •  The story of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece along the coast of the Black Sea. (GRE91, $15.00)
 		  
Noah's Flood, The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History  •  William Ryan  •  Walter Pitman   • SCIENCE  •  Yes, there was a flood! So report the scientist-authors in this vivid account of the geology of the Black Sea. They draw on biblical history, marine geology, archaeology and mythology to demonstrate that the Black Sea was breached by the Mediterranean 7,600 years ago. (BLK42, $19.99)
 		  
Birds of Europe  •  Lars Svensson   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps. (FG47, $29.95)
 		  
 
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