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The British Isles, A History of Four Nations •  Hugh Kearney
HISTORY • 2006 • PAPER • 324 PAGES
A survey of 2000 years of British history from the Celts to the Romans, the Normans, to the rise (and fall) of the empire. With a welcome focus on the interaction of the Celts, Normans and other cultures that have made their home in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. Highly recommended. (GBR88, $35.99)

Coasting, A Private Journey •  Jonathan Raban
TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2003 • PAPER • 302 PAGES
Raban's eloquent, anecdotal account of a solo circumnavigation of the British Isles in a 30-foot ketch, his first experience in a boat. The book is as interesting for its writing and autobiographical fragments as it is for Raban's engaging account of people and places he meets along the way. (GBR591, $13.00)

Seamanship, A Voyage along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles •  Adam Nicolson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2007 • PAPER • 192 PAGES
A stylish writer with a romantic streak, Nicolson offers a direct, engrossing account of a coastal voyage from Cornwall, along the western coast of Ireland, out to the Faeroes and to Orkney in this brief hymn to the sea. He recruits his sailor-friend George; buys a nice, squat wooden boat (the Auk) for the six-month voyage; and drags along a television crew to pay for the trip. Nicolson is the author of the superb Sea Room, Life in the Hebrides. (GBR561, $13.95)

The Crofter and the Laird •  John McPhee
CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1978 • PAPER • 159 PAGES • FAVORITE
In this volume, McPhee returns to his ancestral land, the island of Colonsay in the Scottish Hebrides, to tell the stories of people whose lives are deeply entrenched in their land. With his characteristic grace and admiration for his subjects, McPhee writes about this stark region where residents still live under an almost feudal system of farmers, crofter and lord. (SCT23, $15.00)

British Isles, Great Britain & Ireland Map •   Hammond Maps
2008 • MAP
The Brits are famously in love with geography, and this is their homegrown, colorful and accurate map of both Great Britain and Ireland at a scale of 1:800,000, featuring excellent road data. (GBR29, $11.95)

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Fodor's Exploring Scotland •  Gilbert Summers • GUIDEBOOK • With its many photographs, detailed descriptions and practical information, this compact guide covers Scotland in style. (SCT09, $22.00)

Fodor's London's 25 Best •   Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • This slim guide to London (with handy full-color maps) has everything you need to know for a short visit to the city, including recommended sightseeing, restaurants, hotels and shops. (GBR08, $11.95)

Celtic Prayers from Iona •  J. Philip Newell • RELIGION • Inspired by the gaelic prayers and poems of the 19th-century Scotsman Alexander Carmichael, Philip Newell and his wife developed this handsome hard cover book while wardens on the island. (SCT21, $14.95)

Ireland, A Concise History •  Conor Cruise O'Brien • HISTORY • With its lively, even-handed tone and hundreds of photographs, this grand history by scholar and statesman O'Brien conveys the essence of the Irish experience. (IRE20, $19.95)

Scotland, A Concise History •  Fitzroy MacLean •  Magnus Linklater • HISTORY • With 250 well-integrated illustrations, this lively, authoritative history covers the romantic figures and bloody battles from the early clans up to the present. (SCT15, $19.95)

The Aran Islands •  J.M. Synge •  Tim Robinson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A much-loved turn-of-the-century account of the islands (as contrasted with mainland Ireland), drenched in the Celtic soul of the Irish. (IRE26, $14.00)

The Last of the Celts •  Marcus Tanner • HISTORY • Welsh journalist Tanner mixes anecdote, interview and research in this lively account of encounters with far-flung Celts from Scotland, Wales and Belfast to Brittany, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and Trelew. (GBR527, $22.00)

The Mother Tongue, English and How it Got that Way •  Bill Bryson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An indispensable guide to the language that divides us, this book is an informative linguistic history which showcases Bryson's wry wit. (GBR15, $14.95)

The Story of England •  Christopher Hibbert • HISTORY • Beautifully illustrated with color pictures, chronological charts, royal genealogies and maps, this popular history of English politics, economics and culture from the Neolithic age to the 1990s is an excellent traveler's companion. (GBR02, $14.95)

Tir a'Mhurain, The Outer Hebrides of Scotland •  Paul Strand •  Catherine Duncan •  Basil Davidson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The great American photographer Paul Strand spent three months in the Hebrides in 1954, capturing the region's striking landscapes and residents on film. This exhibition catalog handsomely reproduces 105 of Strand's duotone images. (SCT58, $40.00)

Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages •  Alain Erlande-Brandenburg • ART & ARCHITECTURE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages featuring hundreds of drawings and color illustrations and a brief chronology. (MED07, $12.95)

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides •  Samuel Johnson •  James Boswell • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Written when Johnson was 63 and Boswell 32 in 1773 (when they had been friends for ten years), these travel journals were the result of a three-month trip to Scotland. Johnson observed Scotland, and Boswell observed Johnson. (SCT07, $18.00)

Life of St. Columba •   Adomnan of Iona •  Richard Sharpe • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An early account of the life of St. Columba (521-97), the 6th-century abbot who established the monastery on Iona. Written by Adomnan of Iona at the turn of the 8th century, it introduces the profoundly spiritual man as well as his famous abbey. (IRE103, $17.00)

The People of the Sea •  David Thomson •  Seamus Heaney • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Fascinated by the Celtic seal tales of his youth, Thomson sets out for Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides and Western Ireland. His search yields this marvelously unclassifiable collection of stories, observations and traditional tales. (SCT68, $16.95)

Celtic Prayers and Incantations •  Alexander Carmichael • LITERATURE • An authoritative edition of poems and blessings as collected by folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832 - 1912) over 40 years, when Gaelic was still widely spoken in the Skye, Uist, Oban and other islands of the Hebrides. (CLT4, $7.95)

Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney •  Hermann Palssom •  Paul Edwards • LITERATURE • A fusion of myth and legend, circa A.D. 1200, by an unnamed Icelandic author. The medieval chronicle has its center of action among the Orkney Islands, describing their conquest by Norwegian kings during the Viking expansion of the ninth century. (VIK07, $15.00)

Sun Dancing, A Vision of Medieval Ireland •  Geoffrey Moorhouse • LITERATURE • This wonderfully inspired combination of scholarship and historical fiction, set at the monastery on Skellig Michael, carries the reader back to Ireland's early monastic tradition. (IRE13, $14.00)

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)

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	The British Isles, A History of Four Nations • Hugh Kearney HISTORY • 2006 • PAPER • 324 PAGES A survey of 2000 years of British history from the Celts to the Romans, the Normans, to the rise (and fall) of the empire. With a welcome focus on the interaction of the Celts, Normans and other cultures that have made their home in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. Highly recommended. (GBR88, $35.99)
	Coasting, A Private Journey • Jonathan Raban TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2003 • PAPER • 302 PAGES Raban's eloquent, anecdotal account of a solo circumnavigation of the British Isles in a 30-foot ketch, his first experience in a boat. The book is as interesting for its writing and autobiographical fragments as it is for Raban's engaging account of people and places he meets along the way. (GBR591, $13.00)
	Seamanship, A Voyage along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles • Adam Nicolson TRAVEL NARRATIVE • 2007 • PAPER • 192 PAGES A stylish writer with a romantic streak, Nicolson offers a direct, engrossing account of a coastal voyage from Cornwall, along the western coast of Ireland, out to the Faeroes and to Orkney in this brief hymn to the sea. He recruits his sailor-friend George; buys a nice, squat wooden boat (the Auk) for the six-month voyage; and drags along a television crew to pay for the trip. Nicolson is the author of the superb Sea Room, Life in the Hebrides. (GBR561, $13.95)
	The Crofter and the Laird • John McPhee CULTURAL PORTRAIT • 1978 • PAPER • 159 PAGES • FAVORITE In this volume, McPhee returns to his ancestral land, the island of Colonsay in the Scottish Hebrides, to tell the stories of people whose lives are deeply entrenched in their land. With his characteristic grace and admiration for his subjects, McPhee writes about this stark region where residents still live under an almost feudal system of farmers, crofter and lord. (SCT23, $15.00)
	British Isles, Great Britain & Ireland Map • Hammond Maps 2008 • MAP The Brits are famously in love with geography, and this is their homegrown, colorful and accurate map of both Great Britain and Ireland at a scale of 1:800,000, featuring excellent road data. (GBR29, $11.95)

	Fodor's Exploring Scotland • Gilbert Summers • GUIDEBOOK • With its many photographs, detailed descriptions and practical information, this compact guide covers Scotland in style. (SCT09, $22.00)
	Fodor's London's 25 Best • Fodor's • GUIDEBOOK • This slim guide to London (with handy full-color maps) has everything you need to know for a short visit to the city, including recommended sightseeing, restaurants, hotels and shops. (GBR08, $11.95)
	Celtic Prayers from Iona • J. Philip Newell • RELIGION • Inspired by the gaelic prayers and poems of the 19th-century Scotsman Alexander Carmichael, Philip Newell and his wife developed this handsome hard cover book while wardens on the island. (SCT21, $14.95)
	Ireland, A Concise History • Conor Cruise O'Brien • HISTORY • With its lively, even-handed tone and hundreds of photographs, this grand history by scholar and statesman O'Brien conveys the essence of the Irish experience. (IRE20, $19.95)
	Scotland, A Concise History • Fitzroy MacLean • Magnus Linklater • HISTORY • With 250 well-integrated illustrations, this lively, authoritative history covers the romantic figures and bloody battles from the early clans up to the present. (SCT15, $19.95)
	The Aran Islands • J.M. Synge • Tim Robinson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A much-loved turn-of-the-century account of the islands (as contrasted with mainland Ireland), drenched in the Celtic soul of the Irish. (IRE26, $14.00)
	The Last of the Celts • Marcus Tanner • HISTORY • Welsh journalist Tanner mixes anecdote, interview and research in this lively account of encounters with far-flung Celts from Scotland, Wales and Belfast to Brittany, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and Trelew. (GBR527, $22.00)
	The Mother Tongue, English and How it Got that Way • Bill Bryson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An indispensable guide to the language that divides us, this book is an informative linguistic history which showcases Bryson's wry wit. (GBR15, $14.95)
	The Story of England • Christopher Hibbert • HISTORY • Beautifully illustrated with color pictures, chronological charts, royal genealogies and maps, this popular history of English politics, economics and culture from the Neolithic age to the 1990s is an excellent traveler's companion. (GBR02, $14.95)
	Tir a'Mhurain, The Outer Hebrides of Scotland • Paul Strand • Catherine Duncan • Basil Davidson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The great American photographer Paul Strand spent three months in the Hebrides in 1954, capturing the region's striking landscapes and residents on film. This exhibition catalog handsomely reproduces 105 of Strand's duotone images. (SCT58, $40.00)
	Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages • Alain Erlande-Brandenburg • ART & ARCHITECTURE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE • A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages featuring hundreds of drawings and color illustrations and a brief chronology. (MED07, $12.95)
	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides • Samuel Johnson • James Boswell • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Written when Johnson was 63 and Boswell 32 in 1773 (when they had been friends for ten years), these travel journals were the result of a three-month trip to Scotland. Johnson observed Scotland, and Boswell observed Johnson. (SCT07, $18.00)
	Life of St. Columba • Adomnan of Iona • Richard Sharpe • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An early account of the life of St. Columba (521-97), the 6th-century abbot who established the monastery on Iona. Written by Adomnan of Iona at the turn of the 8th century, it introduces the profoundly spiritual man as well as his famous abbey. (IRE103, $17.00)
	The People of the Sea • David Thomson • Seamus Heaney • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Fascinated by the Celtic seal tales of his youth, Thomson sets out for Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides and Western Ireland. His search yields this marvelously unclassifiable collection of stories, observations and traditional tales. (SCT68, $16.95)
	Celtic Prayers and Incantations • Alexander Carmichael • LITERATURE • An authoritative edition of poems and blessings as collected by folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832 - 1912) over 40 years, when Gaelic was still widely spoken in the Skye, Uist, Oban and other islands of the Hebrides. (CLT4, $7.95)
	Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney • Hermann Palssom • Paul Edwards • LITERATURE • A fusion of myth and legend, circa A.D. 1200, by an unnamed Icelandic author. The medieval chronicle has its center of action among the Orkney Islands, describing their conquest by Norwegian kings during the Viking expansion of the ninth century. (VIK07, $15.00)
	Sun Dancing, A Vision of Medieval Ireland • Geoffrey Moorhouse • LITERATURE • This wonderfully inspired combination of scholarship and historical fiction, set at the monastery on Skellig Michael, carries the reader back to Ireland's early monastic tradition. (IRE13, $14.00)
	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)