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Eyewitness Guide Budapest
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 264 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to the city featuring excellent maps and solid information on culture and history in addition to a detailed neighborhood-by-neighborhood overview of attractions. With hundreds of photographs.
(HGR15, $23.00)
Fodor's Prague's 25 Best
Fodors
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 96 PAGES
A shirt-pocket guide to Prague, this slim book includes an outstanding map of the city as well as a brief overview of its many museums, grand buildings and other not-to-be-missed cultural attractions.
(CZH02, $11.95)
Knopf Mapguide, Vienna
Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 32 PAGES
A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(AST87, $9.95)
Mozart
Peter Gay
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2006 PAPER 192 PAGES
In this compact book, historian and biographer Peter Gay paints a portrait of the musical genius based on factual details rather than long-established myths. He delves into Mozart's complex relationship with his father, the daunting role of being born a child prodigy, and his exploration of new musical territory, particularly opera. A volume in the excellent "Penguin Lives" series.
(AST43, $13.00)
Prague, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Paul Wilson
ANTHOLOGY 1996 PAPER 256 PAGES
Designed with the traveler in mind, this anthology of 24 vivid stories by Prague writers, contemporary and well known, brings the city of Prague to life. The stories and essays -- covering cultural life, society and love -- are organized geographically by district. With a helpful map of Prague, this book is an unusual literary guide to the city.
(CZH08, $14.95)
Eyewitness Guide Prague
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
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, $23.00)
Eyewitness Guide Vienna
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
This superb guide features color photography and excellent neighborhood maps.
(AST01, $23.00)
Lonely Planet Czech Phrasebook
Lonely Planet
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A palm-sized guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary.
(CZH50, $8.99)
Lonely Planet German Phrasebook
Lonely Planet
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(GER141, $8.99)
Lonely Planet Hungarian Phrasebook
Christina Mayer
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A palm-sized handy guide to pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler.
(HGR38, $8.99)
A Concise History of Hungary
Miklos Molnar
Anna Magyar
HISTORY
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, $28.99)
A Nervous Splendor, Vienna 1888-1889
Frederic Morton
HISTORY
A portrait of Vienna at the end of the 19th century, this book focuses on Crown Prince Rudolph, his devastating suicide and the rich texture of gossip and daily life at the Habsburg Court. It captures the political ferment, intellectual creativity, gaiety and despair of fin-de-siecle Austria.
(AST16, $16.00)
Budapest 1900
John Lukacs
HISTORY
Written by a distinguished historian and native son, this richly detailed portrait of the city at its zenith includes hundreds of illustrations.
(HGR01, $14.00)
Bury Me Standing
Isabel Fonseca
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This marvelous portrait of the Roma, also known as the Gypsies, offers insight into their music, foods, religions and folk traditions and examines their influential but complex relationship with Eastern Europe.
(EUR09, $14.95)
Prague in Black and Gold, Scenes From Life in a European City
Peter Demetz
HISTORY
Both a history and accessible guide to the neighborhoods and architecture of the city.
(CZH09, $17.95)
The Austrians, A Thousand-Year Odyssey
Gordon Brook-Shepherd
HISTORY
Detailed, impressively researched and readable, this book is a wide-ranging narrative history of the last 1,000 years of Austria and the Austrian character.
(AST10, $23.00)
The Habsburgs, Embodying Empire
Andrew Wheatcroft
HISTORY
The Habsburgs ruled over more diverse peoples and cultures than any other European dynasty since the Roman period. With skillful scholarship and engaging style, Wheatcroft reveals the history of this family of eccentric monarchs.
(AST11, $17.00)
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)
Mozart, A Life
Maynard Solomon
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Solomon here tears down the myth of Mozart as the "eternal child," while adding great depth to the psychological and artistic development of the musical genius. The book also illustrates life in 18th-century Salzburg.
(AST06, $22.95)
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
Maria von Trapp
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
The true story of the von Trapp family singers, as remembered by Maria von Trapp herself. Maria was indeed a novice nun, but there ends her resemblance to the Julie Andrews character in the Sound of Music.
(AST47, $13.95)
Beyond the Chestnut Trees
Maria Bauer
LITERATURE
Bauer interweaves recollections of her youth in Prague with an account of a return visit 40 years later in this affectionate, classic memoir.
(CZH53, $19.95)
Prague
Arthur Phillips
LITERATURE
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, $13.95)
The Third Man and the Fallen Idol
Graham Greene
LITERATURE
A haunting tale and penetrating portrait of Vienna after World War II, "The Third Man" is the result of Greene's collaboration with Carol Reed on the classic movie. "The Fallen Idol" is a separate tale of intrigue set in Britain.
(AST30, $14.00)
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