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Eyewitness Guide Prague

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES

This superb guide features color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the celebrated city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (CZH01, $25.00)

Eyewitness Guide Budapest

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 270 PAGES

Featuring handy maps and solid information on culture and history in addition to a detailed overview of attractions. With hundreds of photographs. (HGR15, $25.00)

Budapest 1900

by John Lukacs

• HISTORY
• 1990
• PAPER
• 255 PAGES

Written by a distinguished historian and native son, this richly detailed portrait of the city at its zenith includes hundreds of illustrations. (HGR01, $16.95)

Prague, A Traveler's Literary Companion

by Paul Wilson

• ANTHOLOGY
• 1996
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES
• BEST SELLER

This anthology of 24 vivid stories by Czech writers, contemporary and well-known, brings the city, history history, spirit and people to life and includes a helpful map for the traveler. (CZH08, $14.95)

Prague Map

by Borch Maps

• 2006
• MAP

A laminated, detailed map of the center of Prague at a scale of 1:10,000. (CZH13, $7.95)

Budapest Map

by Borch Maps

• 2006
• MAP

A convenient map of the city center at a scale of 1:11,000. (HGR34, $8.95)

 

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Czech and Slovak Republics Map

by Freytag & Berndt

• 2006
• MAP

This double-sided map at a scale of 1:400,000 shows the Danube between Regensburg and Budapest in detail. (EUR35, $14.95)

Knopf Mapguide Prague

by Knopf Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2008
• MAP
• 48 PAGES

A handy set of full color, ingeniously folded maps. (CZH95, $10.95)

Culture Smart! Czech Republic

by Nicole Rosenleaf Ritter

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2005
• PAPER

A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (CZH64, $9.95)

Culture Smart! Hungary

by Brian McLean

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2006
• PAPER
• 168 PAGES

A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (HGR45, $9.95)

Eyewitness Guide Czech and Slovak Republics

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 448 PAGES

An illustrated guide to the history, culture, people and nature of the Czech and Slovak Republics in the popular series, with dozens of excellent maps and color photographs. (CZH68, $28.00)

Eyewitness Guide Hungary

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES

A compact illustrated travel guide featuring bright color photography, dozens of excellent maps, background on history and cultlure, and a region-by-region synopsis of Hungary's attractions. (HGR53, $25.00)

Food Wine Budapest

by Carolyn Banfalvi

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2007
• PAPER
• 343 PAGES

This practical guide to Hungarian cuisine includes essential vocabulary lists, trips to the wine regions, restaurant reviews and good descriptions of typical dishes. (HGR57, $24.95)

Frommer's Budapest Day by Day

by Robert Smyth

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER

This illustrated pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, features excellent suggestions for everything from food and hotels to sightseeing and shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center. (HGR65, $13.99)

Frommer's Prague Day by Day

by Mark Baker

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2011
• PAPER
• 192 PAGES

This handy, compact guide includes a separate fold-out map of the city center and detailed itineraries for experiencing the best of Prague. (CZH85, $13.99)

Lonely Planet Czech Phrasebook

by Lonely Planet

• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
• 2007
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

A palm-sized guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary. (CZH50, $8.99)

Lonely Planet Hungarian Phrasebook

by Christina Mayer

• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
• 2005
• PAPER

A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (HGR38, $8.99)

Rough Guide Czech Republic

by Rob Humphreys

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2009
• PAPER
• 464 PAGES

A comprehensive, practical guide for the traveler to the sites and attractions throughout the Czech and Slovak republics. With helpful local maps, and a good survey of the region's culture and history. (CZH25, $21.99)

Visible Cities Budapest

by Annabel Barber | Emma Roper-Evans

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2007
• PAPER
• 263 PAGES

A detailed, personable guide to the city, featuring a good overview of history, cultural background, suggested walking tours, a map of the city center and practical advice on where to go and what to do. (HGR43, $27.95)

A Concise History of Hungary

by Miklos Molnar | Anna Magyar

• HISTORY
• 2001
• PAPER
• 375 PAGES

The author, a Hungarian historian, narrates the history of Hungary from little-known origins to 1988, encompassing the Magyars, the Austro-Hungarian empire and the Soviet era. (HGR30, $30.99)

Budapest, A Cultural History

by Bob Dent

• HISTORY
• 2007
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

A literary, cultural guide to the art, architecture, traditions and history of Budapest. (HGR49, $19.99)

Bury Me Standing

by Isabel Fonseca

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1996
• PAPER
• 322 PAGES

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)

Open Letters, Selected Writings: 1965 - 1990

by Vaclav Havel | Paul Wilson

• HISTORY
• 1992
• PAPER
• 405 PAGES

This inspired anthology of writings by the Czech poet-president Vaclav Havel collects 25 essays, letters and speeches written between 1965 and 1990, including those that directly influenced the Polish Solidarity movement. (CZH06, $15.95)

Prague in Black and Gold, Scenes from Life in a European City

by Peter Demetz

• HISTORY
• 1998
• PAPER
• 352 PAGES

Both a history and accessible guide to the neighborhoods and architecture of the city. (CZH09, $17.95)

Prague in Danger

by Peter Demetz

• HISTORY
• 2009
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

Read this memoir for its prose and portrait of Prague during a pivotal time. Peter Demetz adroitly combines history, biography and memoir is this page-turning portrait of his beloved city during the War. Demetz (Prague in Black and Gold) vividly chronicles the lives of his young friends family, film, poetry, theater and music, terror and resistance from 1939-45, the six years Prague was under Nazi occupation. (CZH84, $15.00)

The Coasts of Bohemia, A Czech History

by Derek Sayer

• HISTORY
• 2000
• PAPER
• 408 PAGES

A political and cultural history of the Czech people, this intriguing book places the historically important Bohemia and Moravia regions at the center of European events. The author draws on literature, the arts, culture and politics to evoke Czech history, society and identity. (CZH10, $37.50)

The Haunted Land, Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism

by Tina Rosenberg

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1996
• PAPER
• 437 PAGES

In this groundbreaking book, a journalist reports on how the newly democratized people of East Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic have confronted the horrors of their former governments. (EUR54, $17.95)

The Hungarians, A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat

by Paul Lendvai | Ann Major

• HISTORY
• 2004
• PAPER
• 664 PAGES

A journalist who fled Hungary in 1957, Lendvai combines history, scholarship and anecdote in this uncommonly engaging account. With verve and authority, he covers the struggle of the Magyars' against the Tartars, Turks and Russians over the past millennium. (HGR32, $32.50)

The Magic Lantern, The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague

by Timothy Garton Ash

• HISTORY
• 1993
• PAPER
• 167 PAGES

With a chapter each on Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague, this eyewitness account by an astute journalist and historian shows these vibrant cities during a time of great change. (GER36, $15.00)

Baroque and Rococo Art

by Germain Bazin

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 1985
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

An excellent illustrated survey of Baroque and Rococo art and architecture, this volume in the acclaimed "World of Art" series is a good companion to the golden age of Middle Europe. (EUR53, $21.95)

Between the Woods and the Water

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

Fermor continues with youthful adventures in Hungary and Romania, culminating with his arrival at the Iron Gates on the Danube. (CEU31, $15.95)

Beyond the Chestnut Trees

by Maria Bauer

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 1986
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES

Bauer interweaves recollections of her youth in Prague with an account of a return visit 40 years later in this affectionate, classic memoir. (CZH53, $24.95)

The Book of Fathers

by Miklos Vamos

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2009
• PAPER
• 480 PAGES

Vamos turns this giddy memoir, following 10 generations of the men in his family, into a chronicle of the culture and politics of Hungary. (HGR66, $15.95)

A Traveller's Companion to Prague

by Jan Kaplan

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2005
• PAPER
• 252 PAGES

A portrait of the city, its neighborhoods, architecture, society and culture as seen through the eyes of writers over the centuries, including Petrarch, Hans Christian Anderson, Graham Greene and Patrick Leigh Fermor. (CZH65, $16.95)

Prague

by Arthur Phillips

• LITERATURE
• 2003
• PAPER
• 384 PAGES

Don't be fooled by the title -- this engaging novel is set in Budapest. Five young American expats have settled themselves in what they consider the "second-best" eastern European city, where chance encounters and interactions determine how their lives will -- or won't -- be changed. (HGR29, $15.00)

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera

• LITERATURE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 312 PAGES

Kundera strings together loosely related short stories to form an original and entertaining look at Czech culture. (CZH17, $14.99)

The Bridge at Andau

by James Michener

• LITERATURE
• 1972
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES

The true story of a bridge that became a means of escape to the west during the Hungarian revolt in 1956. It's classic Michener: gripping and action-packed. (HGR17, $7.99)

The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

• LITERATURE
• 1995
• PAPER
• 486 PAGES

All of Kafka's stories, including The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, and In The Penal Colony. (CZH47, $17.00)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera

• LITERATURE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

Kundera's intriguing novel, praised for its meditations on the nature of men and women, and on the fearful emptiness of life in Prague under Communist rule. We also carry Kundera's collection of short stories The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. (CZH16, $14.99)

Travelers' Tales Prague and the Czech Republic, True Stories

by David Farley | Jessie Sholl

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2006
• PAPER
• 356 PAGES

A well-chosen selection of mostly modern tales of intrigue, adventure and fun. With contributions by Myla Goldberg, Helen Epstein, Jan Morris, and Francine Prose. (CZH60, $17.95)

Under the Frog

by Tibor Fischer

• LITERATURE
• 2001
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

Irony and wit pervade this novel set against the backdrop of the short-lived Hungarian revolution of 1956. The author's own experiences are played out by a cast of Kafkaesque characters all looking for a way though the turbulent days before the Russian tanks roll into Budapest. (HGR12, $17.00)

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