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These 4 items are available for $86, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSWZ06)

Insight Guide Switzerland  •  Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  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, $23.99)
Why Switzerland?  •  Jonathan Steinberg CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1996 •  PAPER  • 300 PAGES A sweeping study of the Swiss character and an examination of how Switzerland, alone in western Europe, resisted centralization of its state and economy and membership in the European Union. Its unique institutions, direct democracy, absence of strikes, communal autonomy and four national languages make it unique, but can it last? Through lucid descriptions of history, politics, religion, and culture, this book captures what it means to be Swiss. Illustrated with black-and-white photos and maps. (SWZ04, $34.99)
La Place de la Concorde Suisse  •  John McPhee CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1994 •  PAPER  • 150 PAGES 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 -- a country twice the size of New Jersey with a much smaller population and an army of 650,000. What unfolds is an irreverent portrait of Switzerland and the Swiss mindset. (SWZ14, $15.00)
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. (SWZ11, $12.95)

Basel City Map  •  Kummerly & Frey Maps    •  A foldup city map guide at a scale of 1:16,000. (SWZ56, $9.95)
Geneva Map  •  ITMB    •  A detailed traveler's map of Geneva, Switzerland, at a scale of 1:6,000. (SWZ51, $8.95)
Zurich Map  •  ITMB    •  A map of Zurich at a scale of 1:8,000. (SWZ47, $8.95)
Culture Smart! Switzerland, A Quick Guide to Customs And Etiquette  •  Kendall Maycock   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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, $9.95)
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, $13.95)
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  •  This classic, first-person account of the first ascent of the Matterhorn and other peaks by the intrepid Whymper is not just a vivid account of Victorian-era mountaineering; it also captures the geography, beauty and allure of the Alps. (ALP02, $14.00)
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, $15.00)
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, $12.95)
I'm Not Stiller  •  Max Frisch   • LITERATURE  •  A masterpiece of post-WWII fiction about a man who claims not to be himself. (SWZ08, $20.00)
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, $18.95)
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)
Birds of Europe  •  Killian Mullarney  •  Lars Svensson  •  Dan Zetterstrom  •  Peter J. Grant   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent. (FG47, $29.95)