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Fodor's Germany
By Fodor'S Travel Guides. 2014
From hip and sexy Berlin to tradition-laden Munich, Fodor's Germany covers the best Germany has to offer. This full-color guide…
will help travelers plan the perfect trip, from scenic drives through quaint half-timber towns to wine tasting in the country's top wine regions.From the Trade Paperback edition.The Basque Book: A Love Letter in Recipes from the Kitchen of Txikito
By Alexandra Raij, Rebecca Flint Marx, Eder Montero. 2016
Whether it's a perfectly ripe summer tomato served with just a few slivers of onion and a drizzle of olive…
oil, salt cod slowly poached in oil and topped with an emulsion of its own juices, or a handful of braised leeks scattered with chopped egg, Basque cooking is about celebrating humble ingredients by cooking them to exquisite perfection.Chefs Alexandra Raij and Eder Montero are masters of this art form, and their New York City restaurant Txikito is renowned for its revelatory preparations of simple ingredients. In this much-anticipated and deeply personal debut, Raij and Montero share more than one hundred recipes from Txikito--all inspired by the home cooking traditions of the Basque Country--that will change the way you cook.Dishes like Salt Cod in Pil Pil sauce have fewer than five ingredients yet will astonish you with their deeply layered textures and elegant flavors. By following Raij's careful but encouraging instructions, you can even master Squid in Its Own Ink--a rite of passage for Basque home cooks, and another dish that will amaze you with its richness and complexity. The Basque Book is a love letter: to the Basque Country, which inspired these recipes and continues to inspire top culinary minds from around the world; to ingredients high and low; and to the craft of cooking well. Read this book, make Basque food, learn to respect ingredients--and, quite simply, you will become a better cook.From the Hardcover edition.A Man of Genius
By Janet Todd. 2016
"Strange and haunting, a gothic novel with a modern consciousness." Philippa Gregory"A quirky, darkly mischievous novel about love, obsession and…
the burden of charisma, played out against the backdrop of Venice's watery, decadent glory." Sarah Dunant'A mesmerizing story of love and obsession in nineteenth century Venice: dark and utterly compelling."Natasha Solomons"Intriguing and entertaining; a clever, beguiling debut.Todd knows her Venice backwards."Salley Vickers"Revealing, surprising, compelling, gripping." Miriam Margolyes, actressA Man of Genius portrays a psychological journey from safety into obsession and secrecy. It mirrors a physical passage from flamboyant Regency England through a Europe conquered by Napoleon.Ann, a successful writer of cheap Gothic novels, becomes obsessed with Robert James, regarded by many, including himself, as a genius, with his ideas, his talk, and his band of male followers. However, their relationship becomes tortuous, as Robert descends into violence and madness. The pair leaves London for occupied Venice, where Ann tries to cope with the monstrous ego of her lover. Forced to flee with a stranger, she delves into her past, to be jolted by a series of revelations--about her lover, her parentage, the stranger, and herself. Janet Todd is known for her works about Mary Wollstonecraft, Aphra Behn, the Shelley circle, and Jane Austen. Born in Wales, her wandering childhood in the United Kingdom, Bermuda, and Sri Lanka led to work as an academic in Ghana, the United States, and United Kingdom. Her passion has been for women writers, the largely unknown and the famous. A former president of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, she lives in Cambridge and Venice.Not For Tourists Guide to London 2015
By Not For Tourists. 2015
Whether you've called London your home for decades or just arrived last night, there's information in the Not For Tourists…
Guide to London that you need to know. From intimate neighborhood details to how to score tickets to the big football match, this guide will help you master this amazing city like an expert. Packed with over 100 maps and thousands of restaurants, shops, theaters, and under-the-radar spots, you won't find a better guide to London. The book also features: - An invaluable street index - A foldout map of the London Underground and bus system - Profiles of over 100 neighborhoods - Listings for museums and landmarks - A guide to the best shopping You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to solve the mysteries of London: NFT has all the answers!A Fine Line
By Howard Curtis, Gianrico Carofiglio. 1961
"A FINE LINE is a terrific novel, a legal thriller that is also full of complex mediations on the life…
of the lawyer and the difficult compromises inherent in any system of criminal justice. A book that is intensely rewarding at many levels."Scott TurowThe fifth in the best-selling Guido Guerrieri series. When Judge Larocca is accused of corruption, Guerrieri goes against his better instincts and takes the case. Helped by Annapaola Doria, a motorbike-riding bisexual private detective who keeps a baseball bat on hand for sticky situations, he investigates the alleged links to the mafia. Of course Guerrieri cannot stop himself from falling for Annapaola's exotic charms.The novel is a suspenseful legal thriller but it is also much more. It is the story of a judge who, to quote Dostoevsky, "lies to himself and listens to his own lies, so gets to the point where he can no longer distinguish the truth, either in himself or around himself."Rick Steves' Snapshot Hill Towns of Central Italy
By Rick Steves. 2015
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the hill…
towns of central Italy.In this compact guide, Rick Steves covers the essentials of the hill towns, including San Gimignano, Volterra, Montepulciano, and Cortona. Explore the Galgano Monastery, Volterra's Etruscan Gate, Orvieto's Duomo, or relax while wine tasting in Montalcino. You'll get Rick's firsthand advice on the best sights, eating, sleeping, and nightlife, and the maps and self-guided tours will ensure you make the most of your experience. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves Snapshot guide is a tour guide in your pocket.Rick Steves' Snapshot guides consist of excerpted chapters from Rick Steves' European country guidebooks. Snapshot guides are a great choice for travelers visiting a specific city or region, rather than multiple European destinations. These slim guides offer all of Rick's up-to-date advice on what sights are worth your time and money. They include good-value hotel and restaurant recommendations, with no introductory information (such as overall trip planning, when to go, and travel practicalities).Rick Steves Paris 2015
By Rick Steves, Steve Smith, Gene Openshaw. 2015
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in the City…
of Light-Paris.With the self-guided tours in this book, you'll explore the grand Champs-Elysées, the eye-popping Eiffel Tower, and the radiant cathedral of Notre-Dame. Learn how to save money and avoid the lines at the Louvre and Orsay Museums. Enjoy the ambience of Parisian neighborhoods, and take a day trip to the glittering palace of Versailles, or to the Champagne-soaked city of Reims. Then grab a café crème at a sidewalk café and listen to the hum of the city. You'll see why Paris remains at the heart of global culture.Rick's candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants in delightful neighborhoods. You'll learn how to navigate the Paris Métro, and which sights are worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.In Cod We Trust
By Eric Dregni. 2008
Eric Dregni's great-grandfather Ellef fled Norway in 1893 when it was the poorest country in Europe. More than one hundred…
years later, his great-grandson traveled back to find that--mostly due to oil and natural gas discoveries--it is now the richest. The circumstances of his return were serendipitous, as the notice that Dregni won a Fulbright Fellowship to go there arrived the same week as the knowledge that his wife Katy was pregnant. Braving a birth abroad and benefiting from a remarkably generous health care system, the Dregnis' family came full circle when their son Eilif was born in Norway. In this cross-cultural memoir, Dregni tells the hair-raising, hilarious, and sometimes poignant stories of his family's yearlong Norwegian experiment. Among the exploits he details are staying warm in a remote grass-roofed hytte (hut), surviving a dinner of rakfisk (fermented fish) thanks to 80-proof aquavit, and identifying his great-grandfather's house in the Lusterfjord only to find out it had been crushed by a boulder and then swept away by a river. To subsist on a student stipend, he rides the meat bus to Sweden for cheap salami with a busload of knitting pensioners. A week later, he and his wife travel to the Lofoten Islands and gnaw on klippefisk (dried cod) while cats follow them through the streets. Dregni's Scandinavian roots do little to prepare him and his family for the year in Trondheim eating herring cakes, obeying the conformist Janteloven (Jante's law), and enduring the mørketid (dark time). In Cod We Trust is one Minnesota family's spirited excursion into Scandinavian life. The land of the midnight sun is far stranger than they previously thought, and their encounters show that there is much we can learn from its unique and surprising culture.Frommer's Italy 2016
By Donald Strachan, Stephen Keeling, Stephen Brewer, Eleonora Baldwin, Megan Mccaffrey-Guerrera, Michelle Schoenung. 2016
Written by outspoken, authoritative experts, Frommer’s Italy 2016 shows travelers how to experience the country the way the locals do.…
This classic Frommer's series includes exact prices; candid reviews of the best restaurants, attractions and hotels in every price range (from hostels to guest-accepting palazzos); and dozens of detailed maps. We also include advice the tourist board wouldn’t approve of: which sites to skip, how to avoid the crowds, and how to stretch your travel budget further, whether you’re on a lavish honeymoon or backpacking through The Boot. Includes a fold-out map. To La Dolce Vita!Frommer's EasyGuide to Amsterdam, Brussels and Bruges
By Sasha Heseltine. 2016
Arthur Frommer's Easy Guides are designed to respond to travel decisions, and large numbers of travelers decide to follow a…
visit to Amsterdam with excursions to Brussels and Bruges. Together, the three cities provide a fascinating insight into both contemporary and ancient Europe. The modern lifestyles of the Dutch are on display in an awesome seventeenth century setting, while Brussels and especially Bruges are windows into an even earlier time. Sasha Heseltine captures both aspects of three remarkable European attractions.Frommer's EasyGuide To Provence & the French Riviera
By Tristan Rutherford, Kathryn Tomasetti. 2015
Simply to name the highlights is to stir travel excitement: Nice and Cannes, St. Tropez and Monaco, Arles and Avignon,…
Aix-en-Provence, the Cote d'Azur and the South of France. The many sunny, playful or historic cities and renowned resort areas are all we'll-covered in this new Easy Guide. It is freshly-researched and up-to-date, and joyfully-written by Frommer's top corps of journalist-experts on all things French. You'll enjoy their obvious love of the destination.Frommer's EasyGuide BARCELONA & MADRID
By David Lyon, Patricia Harris. 2015
Spain vies with France as the most heavily-visited European nation, and Barcelona and Madrid are its two most heavily-visited cities.…
But while our authors are infatuated with both cities, about which they have written several earlier travel guides (and food commentaries), they also devote considerable attention to side-trips out of Madrid (to Toledo, Cuenca, Segovia, Avila, Salamanca and Zamora) and out of Barcelona (to Tarragona, Sitges and Girona), to which they returned for this new Easy Guide. The result: a surprisingly comprehensive look (in 256 pages) at many of Spain's most compelling locations, with updated and newly-researched advice for 2015 and beyondFrommer's EasyGuide To Rome, Florence and Venice
By Donald Strachan, Stephen Keeling, Elenora Baldwin. 2015
A strong best-seller in its 2014 edition, this is a thoroughly revised and up-to-date guide to one of travel's most…
popular places. Its authors have won awards for their earlier treatment of Tuscany (in a smaller volume) and here devote their talents to the three broader areas that most visitors choose to visit. But in the Easy Guide tradition, they don't attempt to note hundreds of hotels, restaurants, museums and shops, but a smaller, more manageable number that they prefer. The reader benefits.Not For Tourists Guide to London 2016
By Not For Tourists. 2016
With details on everything from Big Ben to Brick Lane, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs.…
Whether you’ve called London your home for decades or just arrived last night, there’s information in the Not For Tourists Guide to London that you need to know. This map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide will help you master this amazing city like an expert. Packed with over 150 maps and thousands of listings for restaurants, shops, theaters, and under-the-radar spots, you won’t find a better guide to London. Want to score tickets to a big Arsenal or Chelsea football match? NFT has you covered. How about royal sightseeing at Buckingham Palace? We’ve got that, too. The best Indian restaurant, theater experience, bookstore, or cultural site--whatever you need--NFT puts it at your fingertips. This light and portable guide also features: * An invaluable street index * A foldout map of the London Underground and bus system * Profiles of over 100 neighborhoods * Listings for museums, landmarks, the best shopping, and more You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to solve the mysteries of London: NFT has all the answers!Frommer's Ireland
By Jack Jewers. 2015
Written by a veteran journalist, Frommer’s Ireland 2016 shows travelers how to experience the country the way the locals do.…
This classic Frommer’s series includes exact prices; candid reviews of the best restaurants, attractions and hotels in every price range (from hostels to guest-accepting castles); and dozens of detailed maps. We also include advice the tourist board wouldn’t approve of: which sites to skip, how to avoid the crowds, and how to stretch your travel budget further, whether you’re on a lavish honeymoon or backpacking it. Erin go Bragh!Frommer's EasyGuide NAPLES, SORRENTO & THE AMALFI COAST
By Stephen Brewer. 2016
When American tourists complete their first trip to Rome, Florence & Venice, their attention then invariably turns further south in…
Italy, to the dynamic city of Naples (along with nearby Pompeii), the colorful seaside city of Sorrento, and the enchanting Amalfi Coast alongside Capri. The number of tourists making a trip to these legendary locations is awesome. Our authors are long-recognized and well-acclaimed travel journalists, who have each devoted considerable time to formulating their personal recommendations for these major Italian destinations. Two hundred eighty-eight pages bear their travel advice.Rick Steves France 2016
By Rick Steves, Steve Smith. 2016
You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in France. With…
this guide, you’ll explore sleepy villages, romantic hill towns, and cosmopolitan cities, including Paris, Avignon, and Nice. Climb the Eiffel Tower, wander world-renowned museums, and dine at sidewalk cafés. Then escape to the sunny countryside, where you can explore castles of all shapes and sizes or pedal your way from village to vineyard. With its Swiss-like Alps, Italian-style Riviera, and Germanic Alsace, France offers Europe’s greatest variety. A good vin rouge is never more than a stroll away. Rick’s candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. He’ll help you plan where to go and what to see, depending on the length of your trip. You’ll get up-to-date recommendations about what is worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.Let's Go Europe 2015
By Inc., Harvard Student Agencies. 2015
From Portugal to Hungary, from Great Britain down to Greece, Europe is a lot to take on. Luckily, the student…
adventurers behind Let’s Go Europe 2015 think you can handle it--with a little help. Whether you’re whipping through London, Barcelona, and Prague in five days or spending a leisurely year abroad, you’ll get all the info you need from us. Our wit and irreverence can brighten even the drabbest Renaissance museum--if you didn’t take our advice to skip it. From German beer halls to Roman ruins, Let's Go Europe 2015 is your ticket to adventure. Let's Go publishes the world's favorite student travel guides, written entirely by Harvard undergraduates. Armed with pens, notebooks, and a few changes of underwear stuffed in their backpacks, our student researchers go across continents, through time zones, and above expectations to seek out invaluable travel experiences for our readers. Let's Go has been on the road for 55 years and counting: We're on a mission to provide our readers with sharp, fresh coverage packed with socially responsible opportunities to go beyond tourism.Frommer's EasyGuide To Florence & Tuscany
By Donald Strachan, Stephen Brewer. 2015
More and more American tourists to Italy are confining their stays to the ultra-popular province of Tuscany, with its "capitals"…
of Florence and Siena, its astonishing Pisa and Lucca, its Grevi (chianti and montepulciano wines) and San Gimignano. Donald Strachan, author of our broader Easy Guide to Rome, Florence and Venice, has won awards for his previous guides to Tuscany, which he and Stephen Brewer have brought entirely up-to-date for 2015 and beyond. You are in the hands of consummate experts when you use their superb guidebook.Frommer's EasyGuide to France
By Margie Rynn. 2016
It was Thomas Jefferson who reputedly said that "every man has two countries, his own and France". The five authors…
of our Easy Guide to that country (each dealing with the area of their specialty) obviously share Mr. Jefferson's viewpoint, so heartfelt and positive is their reaction to the major highlights of France and the single best options for lodgings, meals, sightseeing, shopping, and more. Like all of Frommer's guides, the emphasis here is on preferences, the strong opinions of each author, the factually-based recommendations they make, in a 288-page easy-to-use book that does not overwhelm with unnecessary locations, but with Paris, Normandy, the Loire Valley, Provence and the French Riviera.