12 Places and Travel
Cityscopes from Reaktion Books
Berlin
Joseph Pearson “For the travelers, artists, flâneurs, coders and students fascinated by Berlin, the historian Joseph Pearson masterfully offers a close reading of the metropolis in all its brutal immediacy. Berlin is an exploration of the German capital as it should be, drawing us into the teeming, tumbling life of its streets, clubs and Kieze as well as the dark recesses of the city’s scarred history.” —Bloomberg News 2017 280 p. 4 3/4 x 73/4 90 color plates, 20 halftones 141 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-719-0 $22.00 Your Price: $7.00
Paris
Adam Roberts “The rich history that belongs to the city—stone by stone, bridge by bridge, ruler by ruler, era by era—comes alive within these pages, giving vast meaning to each step and to each breath taken by today’s visitor.” —Robert Wheeler, author of Hemingway’s Paris 2017 320 p. 4 3/4 x 73/4 90 color plates, 20 halftones 142 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-746-6 $22.00 Your Price: $7.00
New York
Elizabeth L. Bradley “This concise history of the Empire City is a smart and lively read, as fast-paced and colorful as Gotham itself. Bradley is a thoughtful and witty tour guide, and her book makes an excellent travel companion.” —Susan Henshaw Jones, Director, Museum of the City of New York 2015 192 p. 5 x 73/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones 143 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-342-0 $22.00 Your Price: $7.00
Millennium Park
Creating a Chicago Landmark
Timothy J. Gilfoyle “[A] high-stakes game of pushand-pull forms the dramatic core of historian Timothy J. Gilfoyle’s absorbing and lavishly illustrated Millennium Park. Gilfoyle frames the park’s gestation as a titanic struggle between public and private interests.”—Chicago Reader 2006 474 p. 81/2 x 10 361 color plates, 145 halftones, 12 maps 144 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29349-3 $45.00 Your Price: $10.00
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Arctic Sanctuary
Images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Photography by Jeff Jones and Essays by Laurie Hoyle “Beautifully showcases a pristine land caught in the crosshairs of the greatest of human calamities, including global climate change and the grim search for energy resources.” —Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge “Accompanied by informative and easy-to-read text that describes the images and the region written by Laurie Hoyle, this is a book you can read, savor and enjoy again and again.”—Great American Landscape Distributed for University of Alaska Press 2010 173 p. 14 x 9 162 color plates 145 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60223-088-0 $55.00 Your Price: $15.00
The Aleutian Islands of Alaska Living on the Edge
Edited by Kenneth F. Wilson and Jeff Richardson “As a presentation of the landscapes and wildlife of the islands, this book could hardly be bettered. The pictures are wonderful and the text is thought provoking. Those who wish for an armchair excursion to the islands in question could not do better than to peruse this volume.”—Journal of the Polar Record Distributed for University of Alaska Press 2009 300 p. 12 x 9 289 color plates 146 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-60223-045-3 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00
Love of Country
A Journey through the Hebrides
Madeleine Bunting “[A] moving and wonderful journey through both the geography and history of the Hebrides. . . . As much as it offers intellectual insight, Love of Country is readable and full of empathy. . . . Both the author and reader of this book end up losing themselves not just in politics and history and the details of nature, but a sense of wonder”—Guardian 2017 320 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones 147 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-47156-3 $27.50 Your Price: $9.00
Rising Ground
A Search for the Spirit of Place
Philip Marsden “Travel writer Marsden returns home to walk the length of the Cornwall region in the southwest corner of Great Britain. . . . Marsden is erudite and brings his knowledge of geology, etymology, history, and philosophy, as well as the voices of Cornwall’s past and current inhabitants, to his long peregrination. The writing is seamless and elegant.”—Publishers Weekly 2016 352 p. 5 3/4 x 81/2 21 halftones 148 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-36609-8 $27.50 Your Price: $8.00
A Journey into Russia
Jens Mühling “To understand the ambiguities, contradictions, absurdities and complexities of the Russian soul, the advice was always to read Gogol. The advice now would be to read Jens Mühling. There is a shock of discovery and a shot of pleasure on every page.”—Times “[Mühling] meets a bewildering variety of ‘old believers’ in a broader sense, from members of the sectarian Orthodox Church . . . through stubbornly Leninist former Soviet citizens, to newly minted Slavonic pagans.”—Times Literary Supplement Distributed for Haus Publishing
2014 275 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 map 149 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-907973-94-9 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00
Berlin for Jews
A Twenty-First-Century Companion
Leonard Barkan “After 1945, can there be a ‘Berlin for Jews’? Can a Jew be a Germanophile? In his learned, deeply personal, culturally astute and thoroughly unclassifiable book, Barkan tackles these questions and others that many Jews of a certain age, education and temperament have also pondered.” —Wall Street Journal 2016 256 p. 6 x 9 35 halftones, 2 maps 150 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-01066-3 $27.50 Your Price: $7.00
The Cruel Way
Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939
Ella K. Maillart In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on a journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. Maillart’s narrative offers a rare glimpse of life in Iran and Afghanistan at a time when their borders were rarely crossed by Westerners. “[Maillart’s] abilities to grasp a region in all its dimensions, and to involve the emerging national character in her own drama, are the marks of the best kind of travel writer.” —Women’s Review of Books
1947, 2013 240 p. 51/2 x 81/2 13 halftones, 2 maps 151 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-03304-4 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00
A Journey through Afghanistan
David Chaffetz “The best thing I have read for giving the feel of Afghanistan and its varied people, social classes, religious sects.”—Owen Lattimore, Washington Post Book World
1981, 1984, 2002 272 p. 6 x 9 152 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-10064-7 $30.00 Your Price: $9.00
