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EARTHBOUND EXPEDITIONS
Russia & the Baltics
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Eyewitness Travel Guide Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 432 PAGES
This compact, profusely illustrated travel guide features bright color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a region-by-region synopsis. With a 50-page section on where to stay and eat.
(BLT35, $28.00) |
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Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg
• Frommer's
GUIDEBOOK •
2012 •
PAPER
• 360 PAGES
A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for sightseeing, restaurants and excursions. With color maps throughout.
(RUS421, $19.99) |
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Russia, A Concise History
• Ronald Hingley
HISTORY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
• BEST SELLER
A very readable, condensed history of Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to a multi-ethnic empire. Well-known scholar Ronald Hingley summarizes the tragic history of Russia from the invasions of the Tartars, Napoleon and Germans to the collapse of the Soviet Union. He doesn't shy from the abuses of power by autocratic tsars and the totalitarian Communist regime. With 205 well-integrated illustrations and four maps.
(RUS04, $19.95) |
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A Woman in Amber
• Agate Nesaule
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1997 •
PAPER
• 280 PAGES
The author, who fled rural Latvia on the heels of the Russian advance at the age of seven, chronicles the terrible dislocations of World War II. In this American Book Award-winning memoir, she tells the powerful story of what she witnessed and experienced as a young girl during the war. Ultimately a testimony to survival, this book brings to light a terrible knowledge of rape, torture and execution.
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Also Recommended
Baltic States Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A double-sided detailed map of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at a scale of 1:400,000.
(BLT06, $14.95)
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Helsinki Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A foldout map of Helsinki, with an index at the detailed scale of 1:15,000.
(SCN36, $11.95)
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Moscow Map
• ITMB
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A handy, folding map of Moscow.
(RUS151, $11.95)
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St. Petersburg Map
• Borch Maps
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A detailed, laminated city plan of St. Petersburg, with street index inset. Place names are in transliterated English.
(RUS89, $7.95)
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Bradt Guide Baltic Cities
• Neil Taylor
• GUIDEBOOK
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This second, expanded edition includes Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kaliningrad as well as Tartu, Liepaja, Kaunas and Klaipeda.
(BLT12, $25.99)
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Culture Smart! Estonia
• Clare Thomson
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice.
(BLT30, $9.95)
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Culture Smart! Lithuania
• Lara Belonogoff
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice.
(BLT31, $9.95)
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Culture Smart! Russia
• Anna King
• GUIDEBOOK
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A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice.
(RUS361, $9.95)
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Eyewitness Guide Moscow
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This outstanding guide covers Moscow's culture, history and attractions with maps, site plans and hundreds of color photographs.
(RUS164, $23.00)
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Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
• BEST SELLER
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With excellent local maps and site plans, this outstanding visual guide introduces the culture, history and attractions of St. Petersburg.
(RUS87, $25.00)
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Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook
• James Jenkin
• Inna Zaitseva
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A handy shirtpocket phrasebook for Russian basics focusing on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(RUS111, $8.99)
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Lenin's Tomb
• David Remnick
• HISTORY
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A gripping eyewitness tale of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Remnick, the Washington Post reporter on the scene, combines fine historical scholarship with great storytelling.
(RUS07, $17.00)
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Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia
• W. Bruce Lincoln
• HISTORY
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A wonderfully written, informative portrait of St. Petersburg, focusing on the city's development in the 18th and 19th centuries as Russia's "window on the West." Highly recommended for travelers with an interest in the character and significance of the city and its monuments.
(RUS128, $19.95)
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The Baltic
• Alan Palmer
• HISTORY
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Palmer chronicles the Baltic region from the Viking era and Byzantine Empire through wars, uprisings and other political conflicts of the twentieth century, and on to modern times, where he finds a group of nations and peoples poised to emerge as some of Europe's most vital democracies. In addition to the prolific British historian's considerable learning, he provides some rather entertaining anecdotes.
(BLT22, $19.95)
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The Baltic Revolution
• Anatol Lieven
• HISTORY
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A Latvian correspondent for the London Times, Lieven weaves history, interviews and analysis into a vivid cultural portrait of post-Glasnost Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
(BLT02, $47.00)
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Catherine the Great, A Short History
• Isabel De Madariaga
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A brief survey of the reign of Catherine the Great that nicely balances biography with descriptions of the economic, political and social life of the period.
(RUS105, $14.95)
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Peter the Great, His Life and World
• Robert Massie
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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In this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Massie portrays the giant of history who transformed Russia from backwater tsardom into a major empire.
(RUS48, $21.00)
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Tsar, The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
• Peter Kurth
• Peter Christopher
• Edvard Radzinsky
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A tribute to the last of the Romanovs, featuring a treasure trove of never-published photographs and illuminating text. It brings to life in sumptuous detail the tumultuous life and times of Nicholas and Alexandra. Masterful.
(RUS79, $29.99)
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Russian Short Stories
• Robert Chandler
• LITERATURE
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This fine collection of tales captures the sweep and soul of Russian literature, including works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy along with lesser-known greats.
(RUS288, $18.00)
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Russka
• Edward Rutherfurd
• LITERATURE
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In this absorbing, complex novel Rutherfurd transforms Russian history into an epic saga. The bestseller follows the fate of interconnected families over 800 years. Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, Pushkin and Rasputin all make appearances.
(RUS175, $19.00)
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Set Sail for Murder
• Carolyn Hart
• MYSTERY
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Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O' Dwyer Collins, Henrie O to her friends, joins her dear old friend Jimmy Lennox on a Baltic cruise in this seventh installment in the cozy series.
(BLT42, $6.99)
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The Dogs of Riga
• Henning Mankell
• MYSTERY
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Swedish detective Kurt Wallander travels from Ystad to Latvia on the shadowy trail of a grisly murder in this second book, steeped in Baltic ambiance.
(BLT24, $15.00)
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The Winter Queen
• Boris Akunin
• Andrew Bromfield
• LITERATURE
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Akunin sets a suspected murder among the glitterati of late 19th-century Moscow in this first book in the series of clever detective novels starring the rascal Erast Fandorin, wildly popular in Russia. The series continues with: The Turkish Gambit (RUS263), set during the 1877 Russo-Turkish War; Murder on the Leviathan (RUS225), an homage to Christie; and The Death of Achilles (RUS291), back in Moscow. Fandorin is deputy to the governor-general of czarist Moscow in Special Assignments (RUS371), facing a serial murder and a swindler.
(RUS210, $15.00)
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