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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Eyewitness Guide Great Britain
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
2011
PAPER
720 PAGES
With its 1,400 photos, maps and excellent introductory chapters, this guide is both a general introduction to Great Britain and a region-by-region look at its attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(GBR01, $30.00) |
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Eyewitness Guide Ireland
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
2011
FLEXI-BOUND
384 PAGES
This superb guide is a wonderfully illustrated introduction to the country, featuring photographs, maps and short background essays on history and culture. Organized geographically, it surveys the attractions of Ireland from Dublin's best pubs, to the Book of Kells and charming rural villages. Take it along.
(IRE02, $25.00) |
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The Story of England
Christopher Hibbert
HISTORY
1992
PAPER
224 PAGES
Beautifully illustrated with color pictures, chronological charts, royal genealogies, and maps, this popular history of English politics, economics, and culture from the Neolithic to the 1990s is an excellent traveler's companion. Hibbert, a masterful storyteller, relates anecdotes that bring history to life in this concise, highly readable introduction to England's past.
(GBR02, $19.95) |
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The Reader's Companion to Ireland
Alan Ryan
ANTHOLOGY
1999
PAPER
352 PAGES
Divided geographically, this collection of satisfying long stories and excerpts gathers classic and modern travel writing on the Emerald Isle -- a wonderful introduction to Ireland as seen by Eric Newby, Jan Morris, Heinrich Boll, Paul Theroux and other visitors. Each has been selected with great care, and introduced by Alan Ryan.
(IRE41, $23.95) |
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Great Britain and Ireland Map
HEMA Maps
MAP
A nicely detailed map showing both Great Britain and Ireland at a scale of 1:750,000. Two Sides. 56x39 inches.
(GBR31, $10.95) |
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Also Recommended
London Map
Borch Maps
A colorful and detailed laminated city map with a variety of useful inset maps.
(GBR114, $8.95) |
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Fodor's Dublin's 25 Best
Fodor's
GUIDEBOOK
Take along this handy pocket guide, which includes a map and information on city highlights.
(IRE30, $11.99) |
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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) |
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
This best-selling history tells the generally unknown story of Ireland's preservation of classical learning in the Dark Ages.
(IRE07, $15.95) |
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Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A farewell walking tour of England by an American expatriate who has decided to return home after two decades. Like all of Bryson's books, it's full of rich conversations, humorous anecdotes and amusing interactions.
(GBR16, $14.99) |
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Scotland, A Concise History
Fitzroy MacLean
Magnus Linklater
HISTORY
With 250 well-integrated illustrations, this lively and authoritative history covers the romantic figures and bloody battles from the early clans up to the present.
(SCT15, $19.95) |
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The Encyclopedia of Ireland
Brian Lalor
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A gloriously detailed, magisterial encyclopedia of Irish life, culture, and history. Featuring full-color illustrations, maps, and an impressive range of biographical entries.
(IRE137, $65.00) |
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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, $14.99) |
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Cathedrals and Castles, The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages features hundreds of drawings, color illustrations and a brief chronology.
(MED07, $15.95) |
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A Writer's House in Wales
Jan Morris
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
In this extended essay, Morris uses her much-loved 18th-century house as a point of departure for a meditation on Welsh identity.
(GBR325, $20.00) |
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In Search of England
H.V. Morton
James Morris
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The much-beloved, enduring account of Morton's ramblings through the English countryside in the early days of the motorcar. Morton charmingly mixes a deep appreciation of the art, culture and history of the place with his own keen observations.
(GBR368, $16.00) |
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Kingdom by the Sea
Paul Theroux
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
This time, the prolific writer recounts a coastal journey around the British Isles in 1982, displaying his occasional ill temper alongside his celebrated ability to combine social history with a good old-fashioned traveler's tale.
(GBR09, $14.95) |
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Mary Queen of Scots
Antonia Fraser
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
This richly readable biography, the story of a legend who was loved even en route to her death, illuminates Mary's age as well as the figure herself.
(SCT01, $20.00) |
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Dubliners
James Joyce
LITERATURE
James Joyce's unsurpassed collection of short stories depicting ordinary life in Dublin among the lower middle class -- a milestone in the history of prose fiction.
(IRE15, $11.00) |
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For the Love of Ireland, A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers
Susan Cahill
ANTHOLOGY
Organized geographically, this rich anthology introduces Ireland through the words and lives of such luminaries as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Frank McCourt and Samuel Beckett.
(IRE77, $15.95) |
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
W.B. Yeats
LITERATURE
Edited by the Nobel Prize-winning poet who spearheaded the Celtic Renaissance in the early 20th century, these enchanting stories introduce a cast of changelings, ghosts, mermaids, demons, saints, priests and fairies.
(IRE04, $16.00) |
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The Hill Bachelors
William Trevor
LITERATURE
No one writes better short fiction than William Trevor. This collection of 12 stories captures the life and people of rural Ireland.
(IRE42, $15.00) |
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The Portable Romantic Poets
Norman Holmes Pearson
W.H. Auden
LITERATURE
This is the anthology to take along on a trip to England's Lake District, Italy's Cinqueterre or any other classic haunt of the romantic poets. This selection includes works by all the masters (and even an occasional mistress).
(GBR346, $20.00) |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
LITERATURE
A terribly witty novel from the incomparable Dame Muriel. Miss Jean Brodie is an unorthodox teacher at an Edinburgh girls' boarding school who wins the hearts and minds of her students, only to discover that girls from the provinces are ill-prepared for progressive thought.
(SCT42, $13.99) |
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