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	Insight Guide Switzerland  •  Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES This handsome guide gives a profusely illustrated overview of Switzerland, featuring concise essays by well-regarded authors on history, politics and culture, hundreds of photos and maps, and some practical information. (SWZ15, $24.99)
	Culture Smart! Switzerland  •  Kendall Maycock GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 168 PAGES 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. (SWZ58, $13.35)
	Quest for the Sublime, Finding Nature's Secret in Switzerland  •  Richard Bangs TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 260 PAGES Richard Bangs revisits the Swiss Alps, following the likes of Byron, Shelley, Keats and Wordsworth in an attempt to grasp the Sublime. (SWZ66, $16.95)
	Switzerland Map  •   HEMA Maps MAP A colorful, shaded relief map of Switzerland at a scale of 1:303,000. With city plans of Basel Bern, Geneva and Zurich. Printed in Germany, the crisp, bright cartography is by Falk Verlag. Also includes Northwest Italy, including Lake Como. One Side. 39X47 inches. (SWZ11, $12.95)

	Basel City Map  •   Kummerly & Frey Maps    •  A foldup city map guide at a scale of 1:16,000. (SWZ56, $9.95)
	Cadogan Guides Switzerland  •  Norman Renouf   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Completely redesigned with full-color touring maps, new introductions and two-color layout, the new Cadogan Guides, now published in the USA, combine in-depth knowledge with personality and comprehensive practical information, including hand-picked sights, restaurants and places to stay. (SWZ72, $21.95)
	Eyewitness Guide Switzerland  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact, thoroughly illustrated guide, featuring over 900 photographs, good maps, and plenty of information on hiking in the Swiss Alps, natural and tourist attractions, and the history and arts of Switzerland. (SWZ45, $25.00)
	Michelin Green Guide Switzerland  •   Michelin Travel Publications   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A survey of the cities, villages and sites of Switzerland in the classic Michelin style. (SWZ17, $21.95)
	Swiss Bernese Oberland  •  Philip & Loretta Alspach   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A brief, illustrated guide to mountains, lakes and villages of the Bernese Oberland. With 50 color pictures, maps and good information on food, drink and the mountain villages of Interlaken, Grindelwald, Wengen, Murren and Kandersteg. (SWZ38, $18.95)
	La Place de la Concorde Suisse  •  John McPhee   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In the company of a Swiss patrol leader on a training mission, McPhee deploys his usual insight and wonderful prose on the phenomenon of the army of Switzerland. (SWZ14, $16.00)
	Why Switzerland?  •  Jonathan Steinberg   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A masterly overview of the idiosyncrasies of Switzerland, its history, language, politics and identity as a naysayer at the center of Europe. (SWZ04, $36.99)
	Alpine Views, Alexandre Calame and the Swiss Landscape  •  Alberto de Andres   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  The exhibition catalog to an exhibition at the Clark, this book showcases 26 dramatic oil paintings and sketches of the picturesque Alps. Calame (1810-1864) was the leading artist of the Swiss school of alpine painting. (SWZ67, $19.95)
	A Tramp Abroad  •  Mark Twain  •  David Eggers  •  Kerry Driscoll   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Written 11 years after Innocents Abroad, this is Twain's second foray into European travel. Filled with his characteristic wit and humorous observations, it documents his journeys through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy. (EUR78, $14.95)
	Eiger Dreams, Ventures Among Men and Mountains  •  Jon Krakauer   • EXPLORATION  •  A collection of some of Krakauer's (Into Thin Air) best journalism, these stories and essays focus on the mindset and determination of world-class mountaineers, including Alpine and Himalayan climbers. (ALP10, $14.95)
	Killing Dragons, The Conquest of the Alps  •  Fergus Fleming   • EXPLORATION  •  Fleming spins lively tales of man against nature in this entertaining history of the eccentrics, adventurers and publicity-hounds who sought to conquer the Alps, including Whymper and his first ascent of the Matterhorn (where four of the seven-man team perished). (ALP16, $14.00)
	Scrambles Amongst the Alps: In the Years 1860-69  •  Edward Whymper   • EXPLORATION  •  Edward Wymper's vivid account of Victorian-era mountaineering , a classic, captures the geography, beauty and allure of the Alps. The intrepid Whymper made the first ascents of several important peaks in the Andes and the Alps, including famously the Matterhorn. (ALP02, $16.00)
	There & Then, Travel Writings of James Salter  •  James Salter   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  These sketches and essays cover 20 years of novelist Salter's peripatetic life, particularly his extended time hiking and skiing in the Alps of Switzerland, Austria and France. (ALP28, $15.00)
	White Spider, The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger  •  Heinrich Harrer   • EXPLORATION  •  The classic tale of a young climber and the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger in 1938. This edition includes photographs, maps, and a chronology of attempts on the North Face. (ALP09, $15.95)
	A Farewell to Arms  •  Ernest Hemingway   • LITERATURE  •  Set in snowy Switzerland and the rainy Italian Lake Country during World War I, this semi-autobiographical novel chronicles the romance between a British nurse and an American ambulance driver. (ITL384, $16.00)
	A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax  •  Dorothy Gilman   • MYSTERY  •  A secret agent like no other, feisty grandmother Mrs. Pollifax goes to Switzerland to track down a missing package of plutonium -- just enough to make a small atomic bomb. Fourth in the series. (SWZ65, $6.99)
	Daisy Miller  •  Henry James   • LITERATURE  •  A classic story of a young American woman's innocent flirtation and its misinterpretation by a sophisticated European man, set in Lac Leman and Chillon. This is James' first fictional work to gain mass popularity and one of his great American female portraits. (SWZ09, $7.00)
	Hotel du Lac  •  Anita Brookner   • LITERATURE  •  The spellbinding, prize-winning novel of a romance novelist whose life begins to resemble her plots when she visits a luxurious hotel in the Alps. (SWZ05, $13.95)
	I'm Not Stiller  •  Max Frisch   • LITERATURE  •  A masterpiece of post-WWII fiction about a man who claims not to be himself. (SWZ08, $27.95)
	The Magic Mountain  •  Thomas Mann   • LITERATURE  •  In this classic novel of ill health in a sanatorium in the Swiss mountains, the author explores disease as a symbol of the sick, capitalistic society of pre-World War I Europe. (SWZ07, $19.00)
	The Night Manager  •  John Le Carre   • LITERATURE  •  This best-selling, post-Cold War thriller about ruthless arms dealers in Geneva is a gripping read. Carrying on the great Le Carre tradition of espionage, a man who essentially gave up living after a tremendous failure is given a costly shot at redemption. (SWZ06, $7.99)
	Glacier Ice  •  Austin Post  •  Edward R. LaChapelle   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers by two devoted men of ice. Ed LaChapelle’s text is paired with Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers from Alaska and Chile to Switzerland, the Himalayas and other parts of the world. (SCI07, $27.95)
	Birds of Europe  •  Lars Svensson  •  Dan Zetterstrom  •  Killian Mullarney   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, this 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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