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Item EXBLK182. Buy these 4 items as a set for $72 Andrew Bostock including shipping, 15% off the retail price. With free Bradt Guide Greece, The Peloponnese shipping on anything else you order. with Athens, Delphi and Kythira Jan Morris 2016, PAPER, 304 PAGES, $24.99 The Venetian Empire, A Sea Voyage This comprehensive guide to the cradle of Greece, which includes Olympia and 1990, PAPER, 200 PAGES, $24.95 Morris reconstructs the whole of the glittering the mountains of Arcadia, also includes dominion of the Venetian Republic in this information about its history and culture. (Item evocative account of a journey by sea along GRE434) historic trade routes to the Adriatic and Annalisa Rellie beyond. (Item ITL70) Bradt Guide Montenegro Mark Mazower 2015, PAPER, 344 PAGES, $25.99 The Balkans, A Short History A compact, detailed overview of Montenegro, its history, wildlife and major attractions in the 2002, PAPER, 188 PAGES, $16.00 With eloquence and clarity, Mazower addresses series by Bradt. Geared for the independent issues of geography, nationalism and nation in traveler, it also includes maps and lots of this indispensable survey. (Item BLK28) practical travel information. (Item BLK47) Michelin Travel & Lifestyle Anne Vipond Michelin Map & Guide Venice Mediterranean by Cruise Ship 2016, MAP, 24 PAGES, $9.95 2016, PAPER, 368 PAGES, $21.95 Perfect for the spontaneous, unstructured The best-selling, compact guide, featuring traveler, this map-based guide picks Venice excellent local maps, hundreds of color apart, neighborhood by neighborhood, photographs, concise background information pinpointing suggested spots for: shopping, and recommended excursions for ports-of-call taking a break, eating and nightlife. (Item throughout the Mediterranean. (Item MED34) ITA604)

Freytag & Berndt Michael Scott Balkans & Southeast Europe Map Delphi, A History of the Center of the 2009, MAP, PAGES, $14.95 Ancient World This nicely detailed European regional map 2015, PAPER, 440 PAGES, $17.95 (1:2,000,000) shows the route of the Danube Scott’s interest is in much more than the oracle from Budapest to the Black Sea. (Item itself, having pieced together the way the entire EUR147) site developed through time. A fine scholarly book, it helps us understand the history of the ancient world as a whole through a focus on this crucial location. (Item GRE595) Dennis Hupchick Henry Miller Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of The Colossus of Maroussi the Balkans 2010, PAPER, 223 PAGES, $14.95 2001, PAPER, 128 PAGES, $23.00 Miller captures the spirit and warmth of the The changing borders and complex history resilient Greek people in this inspired tale of a of the Balkans are clearly and concisely wartime journey from Athens to Crete, Corfu shown through 50 double-page maps and Delphi with his friend Lawrence Durrell. and accompanying essays, organized (Item GRE05) chronologically. (Item BLK41) Jan Morris Robert Morkot The World of Venice The Penguin Historical Atlas of 1995, PAPER, 315 PAGES, $18.95 Ancient Greece Morris displays her talent for research, telling anecdote and well-wrought prose in this 1997, PAPER, 144 PAGES, $21.00 This pictorial survey of Greek antiquity, spirited portrait of a beloved city, its history recording its culture and expansion, features and inhabitants. If you are going to read one dozens of full-color maps. (Item GRE125) book on Venice, we recommend this favorite. (Item ITL12) Marina Belozerskaya, Kenneth Lapatin Donna Leon Ancient Greece: Art, Architecture, and Death at La Fenice History 2004, PAPER, 270 PAGES, $14.99 2004, PAPER, 144 PAGES, $19.95 The first of the tremendously good Guido This lively illustrated guide covers the Brunetti mysteries, all set in the author’s architecture, painting and sculpture of Ancient beloved Venice, in which a famous conductor Greece from the third millennium to the end is found dead at the celebrated La Fenice of the Hellenistic period. With 282 color theater. (Item ITL555) and 28 black-and-white illustrations. (Item GRE194) Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator) Mary Beard The Odyssey 2006, PAPER, 541 PAGES, $17.00 The Parthenon The blind bard’s epic in a translation celebrated 2010, PAPER, 204 PAGES, $17.50 for its clarity and expressiveness. Take it along A lively tale of the construction, significance for a voyage in Homeric lands and waters. and uses of the 2,500-year-old architectural (Item GRE45) marvel. (Item GRE195)

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