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These 4 items are available for $67, including U.S. shipping, a 20% discount (Item no. EXVNM27)

Insight Guide Vietnam  •  Scott Rutherford GUIDEBOOK •  2003 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES A volume in the award-winning Insight series, this guide is noted for its wonderful photography, superb production and informative short essays. It is a highly recommended introduction to Vietnamese history and culture -- as well as a good overview of popular destinations. (VNM02, $23.95)
Understanding Vietnam  •  Neil Jamieson CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1995 •  PAPER  • 428 PAGES Ambitious in scope, Jamieson's book is an essential and unique primer on Vietnamese culture and society, as seen through the lens of its literature. Providing insight into politics, social history, village life, structural renewal, and of course fiction and poetry, it does just what the title promises -- it illuminates the Vietnamese and their worldview. (VNM01, $25.95)
Vietnam, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  John Balaban  •  Nguyen Qui Duc ANTHOLOGY •  1966 •  PAPER  • 239 PAGES From the sweltering rain forest and rural countryside to the bustling cities, these 17 stories from Vietnam's finest writers often eschew the political and instead explore the country's landscapes, mythology and changing traditions. (VNM04, $14.95)
Vietnam Map  •  ITMB 2005 •  MAP A sturdy, double-sided map of Vietnam, at a good scale (1:1,000,000). It features a few paragraphs on major attractions and city maps, including Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh and the Hue region. With index. Two Sides. 39x25 inches. (VNM05, $10.95)

Culture Smart! Vietnam  •  Geoffrey Murray   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (VNM87, $13.30)
Eyewitness Guide Vietnam and Angkor Wat  •  Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An illustrated guide to the culture, history and attractions of Vietnam and Angkor, featuring site diagrams, maps and photographs. (VNM102, $25.00)
Lonely Planet Vietnamese Phrasebook  •  Nguyen Xuanthu   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy palm-sized guide to pronunciation, grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (VNM20, $8.99)
A Bright Shining Lie, John Paul Vann and the Americans in Vietnam  •  Neil Sheehan   • HISTORY  •  A political history of the war as seen through the story of one of its soldiers, this prize-winning book is a hard-hitting expose on the failure of American foreign policy in Southeast Asia. (VNM27, $18.95)
Fire in the Lake  •  Frances FitzGerald   • HISTORY  •  A classic historical, political and cultural portrait of a nation at war, this powerful book won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. FitzGerald, a staff writer at the New Yorker and a reporter in Vietnam, presents a vivid image of a revolution. (VNM12, $17.99)
Shadows and Wind  •  Robert Templer   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A British journalist based in Vietnam, Templer cuts through myth and legend to offer a lively, opinionated portrait of contemporary Vietnam. (VNM43, $16.00)
The Fog of War  •  Robert S. McNamara  •  Errol Morris   • HISTORY  •  Morris keeps a tight focus on the haunted and candid Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in this riveting examination of the U.S. in Vietnam. The 95-minute film won an Oscar in 2003 for best documentary. (VNM83, $14.94)
Vietnam, A History  •  Stanley Karnow   • HISTORY  •  This blockbuster book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is history at its best: masterfully researched, well written and comprehensive. (VNM10, $21.00)
Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit  •  Nguyen Van Huy  •  Laurel Kendall   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A marvelously illustrated portrait of culture and society in contemporary Vietnam, featuring informed essays by diverse contributors with accompanying color photographs. (VNM66, $45.00)
Zen Keys, A Guide to Zen Practice  •  Thich Nhat Hanh   • RELIGION  •  An overview of Zen Buddhism as practiced in Vietnam, including 43 koans from the 13th century Vietnamese master, Tran Thai Tong, and an opening chapter on daily life in a Zen monastery. Originally published in 1974. (VNM72, $14.95)
Catfish and Mandala, A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam  •  Andrew X. Pham   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Much more than the story of a road trip, this book combines the author's family history with his many and often-gritty adventures by bicycle through foreign lands (including Mexico, Japan and, notably, Vietnam). (VNM50, $16.00)
Descending the Dragon, My Journey Down the Coast of Vietnam  •  Rob Howard  •  Jon Bowermaster   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Bowermaster and a team, including his long suffering foreign press monitor and photographers, set forth from Hanoi by kayak to explore the long coast of Vietnam on a two-month-long journey of discovery. With dozens of color and black-and-white photographs. (VNM121, $21.95)
Dispatches  •  Michael Herr   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Robert Stone introduces this Everyman's Library edition of Herr's impressionistic, affecting memoir of his time as a war correspondent in Vietnam, called by the New York Times the best book yet to be written about the war. (VNM03, $24.00)
Ho Chi Minh, A Life  •  William Duiker   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Dissident, revolutionary and communist, Ho Chi Minh returned from exile to lead North Vietnam's defiant break with colonial France. Duiker charts Ho Chi Minh's long march from son of a scholar in the rural provinces, to idealist student in heady 1920s Paris, to determined revolutionary. (VNM45, $18.95)
The Cat from Hue, A Vietnam Story  •  John Laurence   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Journalist John Laurence's detailed and haunting account of Vietnam War combines his first hand experiences as a correspondent with a historical overview of the war. The cat in the title is Meo, a Vietnamese stray he adopted along the way. (VNM67, $21.95)
The Eaves of Heaven, A Life in Three Wars  •  Andrew X. Pham   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Pham recounts the story of his father's life during the French occupation, Japanese invasion and the American War, weaving such momentous events with anecdotes from his childhood and details of family, friends, food and daily life. (VNM120, $16.00)
The River's Tale, A Year on the Mekong  •  Edward Gargan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A personal, probing chronicle of a 3,000 mile journey on the river from its source in China through Tibet, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. (SEA33, $15.95)
The Sacred Willow, Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family  •  Duong Van Mai Elliott   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A vivid family saga, beginning with the author's great-grandfather, that captures the life and momentous history of Vietnam over the last 100 years. (VNM39, $24.99)
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain  •  Robert Olen Butler   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, this collection of 15 short stories captures the spirit of Vietnam through a juxtaposition of American and Vietnamese perspectives and settings. (VNM21, $14.00)
The Quiet American  •  Graham Greene   • LITERATURE • FAVORITE  •  A classic, this is the most famous Western work of fiction on Vietnam. Greene writes of a love triangle between a war correspondent, his Vietnamese consort and an optimistic young American during the last days of French rule. (VNM08, $15.00)
The Sorrow of War, A Novel of North Vietnam  •  Bao Ninh   • LITERATURE  •  A powerful novel by a former North Vietnamese soldier, this short book captures the appalling conditions of war, alternating vivid scenes from the front lines with flashbacks from the protagonist's rural youth. (VNM07, $15.00)
The Tale of Kieu, Bilingual Edition  •  Huynh Thong   • LITERATURE  •  A cornerstone of Vietnamese literature, this much-loved epic poem was written in the early 19th-century by a Vietnamese ambassador to the Chinese court. (VNM22, $22.00)
The Things They Carried  •  Tim O'Brien   • LITERATURE  •  National Book Award-winner O'Brien captures the daily life of a soldier in Vietnam in this loosely structured, powerful collection of stories. (VNM32, $14.95)
Up Country  •  Nelson Demille   • LITERATURE  •  A Tom Clancy-Style military thriller, rich in historical detail, geography and intrigue. Demille, a Vietnam veteran, follows the fate of his career army protagonist on a trip back to Vietnam 1997. (VNM46, $7.99)
Birds of Southeast Asia  •  Craig Robson   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This authoritative, masterfully illustrated guide, featuring 140 color plates covering 1,270 species throughout the region, also includes Malaysia, Burma, Borneo and Indonesia. (SEA49, $35.00)
Koto, A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam  •  Tracey Lister   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Arranged by region, this engaging cookbook weaves personal stories and national history with a culinary appreciation of the markets, traditions and food of daily life in Vietnam. (VNM133, $29.95)