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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/B47117. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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To the Arctic
Florian Schulz
NATURAL HISTORY
2011
HARD COVER
204 PAGES
From aerial photographs of the tundra in summer to stark winter landscapes and underwater images, this companion book to the Fall 2012 IMAX film captures the pageant of Arctic wildlife.
(ARC273, $45.00) |
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Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World
Times of London
REFERENCE
2011
BOXED
544 PAGES
FAVORITE
Get this latest edition of the world's most authoritative atlas at 25% off the $200 selling price. Worth every penny for its coverage, size and quality, each double-page spread is a whopping 16" x 22" and gorgeous. With excellent physical and political detail, superb coverage of polar areas, and a new and expanded index of 200,000 place names and geographic features. Complete with a slipcase, this revised and updated 13th edition of the world's most prestigious and authoritative world atlas includes a bonus 1922 archival world map. New features to this edition include 30 city plans from major cities around the world; flags for every country in the world; the new independent country of Kosovo; and major new place name updates in China, Russia, Kazakhstan, India, Afghanistan, and Iran. The detailed thematic information contains contributions from experts in their relevant geographical field. New topics discussed include migration, the global impact of recession, migration, and polar regions.
(GEN71, $150.00) |
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Lonely Planet Great Journeys
Lonely Planet Publications
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2011
HARD COVER
33312 PAGES
Subtitled Travel the World's Most Spectacular Routes, this photo book covers the sweep of ancient trade routes, modern treks and iconic place, each with color photographs, travel tips and, we were pleased to see, armchair reading.
(TVL536, $39.99) |
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Kenya
Michael Poliza
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2011
HARD COVER
280 PAGES
Alternating aerial shots with dramatic landscapes, vivid animal studies and portraits of the Maasai, Michael Poliza's latest stunning book captures the spirit of Kenya and its people.
(EAF380, $95.00) |
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The Grand Bazaar Istanbul
Serdar Gulgun
ART & ARCHITECTURE
2011
BOXED
284 PAGES
With thousands of stores, stalls, workshops, and storehouses, along with cafes, change offices, banks, and fountains -- even a post office, a police station, and a mosque -- the Grand Bazaar is a city unto itself. In this comprehensive overview of the history and legacy of luxury art crafts in Turkey, the vibrant spirit of the Grand Bazaar is revealed through stories by Ottoman art expert Serdar Gulgun and dazzling images by Laziz Hamani. Presented in a slipcase, this gorgeous book showcases the Grand Bazaar's wonders and most singular boutiques.
(TKY257, $250.00) |
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Havana
Michael Eastman
ART & ARCHITECTURE
2011
HARD COVER
144 PAGES
Eastman captures the decaying splendor, crumbled facades and grand interiors of Havana in nearly 100 sumptuous, large-scale richly colored photographs, taken over the past two decades. Painterly in quality and mostly devoid of people, these dramatically lit and exquisitely detailed photographs capture Cuban life through suggestion: an empty chair, an ancient car, a decrepit hallway, a forgotten chandelier.
(CBA155, $60.00) |
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Stone Offerings
Mike Torrey
ART & ARCHITECTURE
2009
HARD COVER
143 PAGES
An accomplished architectural photographer, Torrey brings an eye for the dramatic setting and geometry of the site to these striking color photographs, taken over a few days at summer and winter solstice.
(AND76, $40.00) |
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Burton Holmes Early Travel Photography
Genoa Caldwell
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2010
HARD COVER
288 PAGES
A glorious selection of photos, hand-tinted lantern slides and tales from Burton Holmes's extraordinary multi-volume Travelogues, originally published in 1901. From the boulevards of Paris to the pyramids of Egypt, China's Great Wall and bustling Marrakech, Burton Holmes was there at the turn of the 20th century, turning iconic images into hand-tinted lantern slides which he enthusiastically projected to packed houses across the country at the turn-of-the-last century. This captivating collection of tinted photographs presents the best of his work.
(TVL116, $29.99) |
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Temples of Cambodia, The Heart of Angkor
Helen Ibbitson Jessup
Barry Brukoff
ART & ARCHITECTURE
2011
HARD COVER
256 PAGES
With 210 color and 20 sepia photographs, plus plans, maps, and elevations. Organized chronologically, the book opens with the modestly scaled brick structures of the seventh and eighth centuries and goes on to explore the first monumental temple mountains of the ninth century, the technical advances enabling the fulfillment of a unique Khmer architectural vision in the tenth, and the erection of the ambitious Baphuon temple mountain, among others, in the eleventh, all setting the stage for the apogee of the Khmer empire in the twelfth century, and with it, the construction of three massive temple complexes: Beng Mealea, Bakan, and the supreme architectural creation of Cambodia, Angkor Wat.
(CBD73, $65.00) |
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Sites of Antiquity, From Ancient Egypt to the Fall of Rome
Charles Freeman
ARCHAEOLOGY
2009
HARD COVER
248 PAGES
Enticing aerial shots, detailed site plans, glorious modern photographs and illustrations illuminate 50 key monuments, cities or sites of the Mediterranean world in this handsome hardcover by the publisher of the venerable Blue Guides. Charles Freeman provides the succinct accompanying essays -- with each place from Giza, Luxor and Karnak to the Parthenon, Ephesus, Pergamon, Petra and Constantinople getting four to eight pages each.
(MED150, $50.00) |
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Cooking with Italian Grandmothers
Jessica Theroux
FOOD
2010
HARD COVER
250 PAGES
Theroux's tender culinary celebration brings together recipes, anecdotes and photographs of a dozen Italian grandmothers across Italy. Each chapter includes a map, essay, interview and (this is the best part) authentic recipes you'd actually want to make.
(ITA193, $40.00) |
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AntARCTIC, A Tribute to Life in the Polar Regions
Michael Poliza
NATURAL HISTORY
2011
PAPER
240 PAGES
With his inimitable blend of intimate close-ups and cinematic landscapes, Poliza celebrates polar wildlife and landscapes in this compact edition of his oversized, sumptuous original, Featuring 100 of his most spectacular images, Arctic and Antarctic. including cavorting polar bears, mobs of King Penguins, pods of beluga, close-ups of humpbacks and other memorable images of ice, sea and wildlife.
(ANT314, $39.95) |
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The Tulip Anthology
Anna Pavord
Ron van Dongen
ART & ARCHITECTURE
2010
HARD COVER
240 PAGES
Presented in an oversize, deluxe hardcover, Ron van Dongen's lush color portraits of dozens of species of exotic tulips (which he also grows) are paired with visual art and writing on the wonder of the coveted blooms. Anna Pavord explores the bloom's rich cultural history in the introduction. 33% off the retail price!
(NTH135, $40.00) |
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Serengeti, The Eternal Beginning
Boyd Norton
NATURAL HISTORY
2011
HARD COVER
288 PAGES
Two-hundred-and-fifty color photographs and Norton's firsthand accounts from Serengeti National Park, Kenya's Masai Mara, and Ngorongoro Crater, as well as memorable stories about encounters with people and wildlife will transport you to East Africa. Chosen as one of the "40 Most Influential Nature Photographers" in 2010, the roving, Colorado-based Norton has worked in the Rocky Mountains, Lake Baikal and Alaska. He is founder and director of Serengeti Watch with Longitude friend and colleague Dave Blanton.
(EAF378, $35.00) |
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The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott
David Wilson
EXPLORATION
2011
HARD COVER
192 PAGES
Drawing on a long forgotten cache of gelatin prints, Wilson turns Scott's beautifully produced images, many a full or double page, into a chilling tale of fortitude and courage, tracing events first around Cape Evans and then, day by day until the top of the Beardmore Glacier, when the bulky camera was returned to base with Scott's first supporting party. This gorgeous book, supplemented by maps and incisive commentary, is a significant contribution to Antarctic history. Wilson's great uncle was expedition artist Edward Wilson, who died with Scott on his way back from the Pole.
(ANT343, $35.00) |
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Also Recommended
Atlas of Remote Islands
Judith Schalansky
REFERENCE
Tantalizingly subtitled Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will, this intriguing collection of maps and lore is likely to ignite wanderlust in certain of us. An artist obsessed as a child with the world atlas, Schalansky includes islands, both famous and utterly obscure, ranging across the world's seas, each drawn at the same scale so that tiny Clipperton Atoll is a speck on the page while Deception Island in the Antarctic almost fills it.
(WLD200, $30.00) |
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The Luxury Collection, Hotels & Resorts
Assouline Publishing
GUIDEBOOK
These six Luxury Destination Guides, with tips from the likes of Charlie Palmer (US) and Mario Batali (Italy) cover, are packed in a gift box.
(TVL524, $140.00) |
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A Little History of the World
E. H. Gombrich
HISTORY
MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
This splendidly readable, sweeping history for younger readers -- excellent for reading aloud -- covers the history of the world from the stone age until the dawn of the atomic age in 40 concise chapters. With 200 color illustrations, this new illustrated edition of Gombrich's classic is as handsome as it is engaging.
(REF12, $29.95) |
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Buddha
Jon Ortner
RELIGION
Ortner places sayings of the Buddha alongside beguiling 150 color photographs of statues, relics, carvings, shrine, pagodas and temples throughout Asia in this enlightening book.
(ASA81, $29.95) |
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Cuba
Pierre Hausherr
Francois Missen
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
BEST SELLER
With full-page photographs, introductory essays on history, architecture, music, food and more, this oversized, illustrated paperback by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Francois Missen and photographer Pierre Hausherr captures the spirit of Cuba, its people, nature and culture.
(CBA143, $24.95) |
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Tibet, A Culture on the Edge
Phil Borges
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Borges focuses on the people of Tibet in this new collection.
(TBT139, $45.00) |
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A Dream of Red Mansions, As Portrayed Through the Brush of Sun Wen
Xueqin Cao
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This lovingly produced, slip-cased and oversized edition of the Chinese classic features exquisitely reproduced Qing Dynasty paintings by Sun Wen.
(CHN679, $60.00) |
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The Caves of Dunhuang
Fan Jinshi
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This richly illustrated survey presents the ancient murals, silks, manuscripts and other treasures within the 50 extraordinary cave temples of Mogao, used as a monastery for a millennium. With 350 color photographs.
(CHN534, $70.00) |
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The Nile Cruise
Jenny Jobbins
ARCHAEOLOGY
Weaving classic travelers' accounts with essays and 150 color photographs, this compact book beautifully illuminates the history and allure of the towns, temples and tombs of the Nile from Abydos to Abu Simbel.
(EGY278, $29.95) |
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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) |
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100 Journeys for the Spirit
Pico Iyer
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Pico Iyer, Jan Morris, Paul Theroux, Alexander McCall Smith and Michael Ondaatje all contribute to this beautifully illustrated, hand-picked selection of temples, cathedrals and monasteries, parks and other soulful places.
(TVL516, $29.95) |
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The Travel Book, A Journey Through Every Country in the World
Lonely Planet Publications
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
Bigger and better than ever (the second edition of the best-selling original), we can't keep our hands off this celebration of the world. Each country, no matter how big or small, gets a colorful double-page spread in this glossy A-to-Z of travel from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
(WLD193, $50.00) |
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Animal, The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife
Don E. Wilson
David Burnie
NATURAL HISTORY
A giant reference to wildlife throughout the world, compiled by the Smithsonian and a group of zoologists. From insects, marine life and amphibians to birds and mammals, it runs the gamut.
(BST80, $50.00) |
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Ocean Soul
Brian Skerry
NATURAL HISTORY
Whales, seals, fishes of all sorts, coral reefs and other marine habitats are all showcased in this stunning tribute to the world's oceans by National Geographic explorer Brian Skerry.
(OCE178, $50.00) |
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Polar Obsession
Paul Nicklen
NATURAL HISTORY
NEW
Born and raised on Baffin Island, Nicklen has ice in his blood. The National Geographic photographer, wildlife biologist and naturalist presents up-close portraits of the creatures of the high latitudes in 150 dazzling photographs of swimming bears, cavorting seals, penguins, dueling narwhals and all manner of polar life.
(ANT305, $50.00) |
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Smithsonian Natural History, The Ultimate Visual Guide to Everything on Earth
Becky Alexander
NATURAL HISTORY
Jammed with eye-popping photographs and in-depth two-page spreads on species of particular interest, this bold visual encyclopedia squeezes as many of the plants, animals, rocks and minerals of a natural history museum as could fit between its commodious covers.
(NAT235, $50.00) |
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