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These 6 items are available for $70, including U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXEUR701)

Fodor's London's 25 Best  •  Fodor's GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 128 PAGES This slim guide to London includes a separate map of the city's center and a 96-page pocket book with essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing. (GBR08, $11.95)
Fodor's Paris' 25 Best  •  Fodor's GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 128 PAGES This shirt-pocket map and guide includes essential information on the city's history, highlights and sightseeing, ideal for a short visit to the City of Light. (FRN41, $11.95)
Fodor's Rome's 25 Best  •  Fodor's GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 128 PAGES A shirt-pocket guide to Rome, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing -- all in a slipcover. (ITL112, $11.99)
The Search for Ancient Rome  •  Claude Moatti ARCHAEOLOGY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 207 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE A volume in the lavishly illustrated "Discoveries" series, this pocket-size volume features hundreds of color photos and paintings, a chronology and excerpts by the great archaeologists. It's a portrait of the history of archaeology and a fascinating look at the meaning of ancient Rome to western civilization -- quite an accomplishment for a slim book. (ITL18, $12.95)
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, $14.95)
Paris in Mind  •  Jennifer Lee ANTHOLOGY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES With selections spanning 300 years, this wonderful anthology reflects America's long connection to Paris and the French. Each short excerpt is organized by topic -- Love, Food, Being Civilized, and Tourism -- and ranges from the humorous to the celebratory to the grim. The 30 American writers tapped include Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Hemingway and David Sedaris. (FRN412, $13.95)

Lonely Planet French Phrasebook  •  Marie-Helene Girard  •  Anny Monet   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy phrasebook for French basics. This guide focuses on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (FRN120, $8.99)
Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook  •  Lonely Planet   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy, palm-size phrasebook for the traveler. (ITL531, $8.99)
A Propos De Paris  •  Henri Cartier-Bresson   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This handsomely produced coffee table book features 131 duotone images of Paris selected by Cartier-Bresson in honor of his 90th birthday. It's a splendid tribute to the people and life of the City of Light. (FRN132, $35.00)
A Traveller's History of Paris  •  Robert Coles   • HISTORY  •  A fast-moving, short survey of French history with a focus on Paris from its foundation, through the heady days of revolution, and up to modern times. (FRN426, $14.95)
French or Foe? Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France  •  Polly Platt   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  With humor, directness and great insight, this compact book is an expert and entertaining guide to the French and how to get along with them. The expanded third edition addresses France's romance with cell phones and includes a short chapter of recent vignettes. (FRN54, $16.95)
London Perceived  •  Evelyn Hofer  •  V. S. Pritchett   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A classic, lyrical celebration of the palaces, parks, people and everyday experience of London. Pritchett's eloquent riffs on the character of the city are accompanied by evocative black-and-white photographs by the superb Evelyn Hofer. (GBR310, $19.95)
London, The Biography  •  Peter Ackroyd   • HISTORY  •  A big thematic history of London from Celtic settlement to Roman outpost and world power, much focused on the life of the city. A popular biographer and novelist, Ackroyd leavens the centuries with anecdote, personality and great affection. (GBR248, $21.00)
The Italians  •  Luigi Barzini   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The definitive portrait of the Italian people, this is a classic, scholarly essay on the Italian character. Though first published in 1964, it's still worth reading for its insight, grace and wit. (ITL05, $16.00)
Ancient Rome: Art, Architecture, and History  •  Ada Gabucci   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A lively, illustrated survey of ancient Rome, its monuments, history and art. (ITL419, $19.95)
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling  •  Ross King   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Presented with flair and backed by a wealth of research, King's captivating chronicle of Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel tells the story of its conception and creation. (ITL464, $17.00)
A Moveable Feast  •  Ernest Hemingway   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A treasure for anyone interested in Parisian cafe society and its luminaries circa 1925. Hemingway includes sharp portraits of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford and others who idled on their way to greatness. (FRN26, $15.00)
A Traveller in Rome  •  H.V. Morton   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  An enduring portrait of the city and especially its history, originally published a half century ago. (ITL418, $19.95)
Between Meals, An Appetite for Paris  •  A.J. Liebling   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE  •  Liebling captues with stylish prose his coming-of-age in Paris in this elegant memoir, which is also a tribute to French cuisine. (FRN32, $15.00)
In Search of London  •  H.V. Morton   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An enduring portrait of the city and especially of its history, originally published a half-century ago. As in all of his travel books, Morton charmingly mixes a deep appreciation of the art, culture and, especially, the history of a place with his own keen observations. (GBR269, $18.50)
Paris to the Moon  •  Adam Gopnik   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Gopnik writes with candor and humor about Paris and Parisian ways in these charming reflections on adapting to life abroad. (FRN208, $15.00)
84 Charing Cross Road  •  Helene Hanff   • LITERATURE  •  This charming novel of bibliophilia tells of a love triangle between a New York writer, the owner of a London bookstore and the books he sells. (GBR231, $13.00)
A Tale of Two Cities  •  Charles Dickens   • LITERATURE  •  Dickens' famous tale of love and intrigue, set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. (GBR100, $8.00)
Down and Out in Paris and London  •  George Orwell   • LITERATURE  •  Orwell's first published work, this novel -- based, in part, on true experiences -- is a tale of the underclass in 1930's Paris and London. (GBR99, $14.00)
I, Claudius  •  Robert Graves   • LITERATURE  •  Good old-fashioned politics, palace intrigue and back-stabbing in the form of a fictional autobiography, charting the rises and falls of Roman emperors. (ITL429, $16.00)
Zazie in the Metro  •  Raymond Queneau   • LITERATURE  •  Raymond Queneau's delirious short novel of a country girl, her loony uncle and some disapproving gendarmes on a madcap tour of Paris. Louis Malle made it into a film in 1960. (FRN434, $14.00)