Places & 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. 43/4 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. 43/4 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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

Seeking Provence

Old Myths, New Paths

Nicholas Woodsworth

“Like Tuscany, Provence has been trampled over by too many writers in recent years. But Woodsworth, a former Africa correspondent for the Financial Times and a Provençal by marriage, looks as though he could break the curse of Mayle.” —New York Times

2016 380 p. 5 x 8 153 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-26-5 $19.95

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Tasting Spain

A Culinary Tour

H. M. van den Brink

Part travelogue, part memoir, and part cookbook, this book offers a dynamic journey through Spain, focusing on culinary delights found everywhere from Madrid’s cafes to Barcelona’s fish markets.

2017 128 p. 5 x 8 154 Paper ISBN: 978-1-909961-21-0 $17.95

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Tasting Italy

A Culinary Journey

Alice Vollenweider

In this combined travelogue, cookbook and literary guide, Vollenweider provides delightful insights into Italian regional cuisine and culture.

2006 276 p. 5 x 7 155 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-904950-28-8 $19.95

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156 Paper ISBN: 978-1-906598-92-1 $11.95

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Hemingway in Italy

Richard Owen

“An exceptionally lively study. . . . Hemingway’s adoration of Italy never waned.” —Times Literary Supplement

2017 240 p. 4 x 8 10 halftones 157 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-38-8 $22.95

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Lady Chatterley’s Villa

D. H. Lawrence on the Italian Riviera

Richard Owen

“Gracefully and mischievously, [Owen] portrays the sunlit Riviera landscape and warmth of Italian society in which Lawrence was slowly resurrected and enabled to write.”—Times

2014 240 p. 41/2 x 83/8 158 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-907973-98-7 $22.95

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Borges in Sicily

Alejandro Luque

Part travel diary and part literary history, Borges in Sicily presents an intimate portrait of one writer discovering life, love, and literature through the eyes of another.

2017 220 p. 4 x 8 23 halftones 159 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-44-9 $22.95

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Palermo

Roberto Alajmo

Alajmo gives an insight into the Sicilian capital from a lifelong resident’s point of view, showcasing its hidden cultural and culinary jewels; portraying its people; and touching on its politics.

2010 176 p. 5 x 7 160 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-906598-17-4 $19.95

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Homer’s Mediterranean

A Travel Companion

Wolfgang Geisthövel

Geisthövel gives a detailed and lively desciption of the individual steps of the Odyssey, starting in Troy and finishing in Ithaca.

2010 248 p. 4 x 7 161 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-905791-39-2 $19.95

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The Geckos of Bellapais

Memories of Cyprus

Joachim Sartorius

“Sartorius travels genially and wisely, observing, talking . . . and making friends with leading figures in the island’s life.”—Times Literary Supplement

2013 178 p. 41/2 x 81/4 162 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-907973-91-8 $22.95

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Mount Sinai

A History of Travellers and Pilgrims

George Manginis

“Offers a different perspective and a fascinating story of the enduring appeal of Sinai.”—History Today

2016 286 p. 41/4 x 81/4 15 halftones, 6 line drawings 163 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-910376-50-8 $22.95

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Dickens

London into Kent

Peter Clark

“This is a small, delightful book . . . describing walks around parts of London associated with Dickens’s life and writings.”—Literary Review

Smile of the Midsummer Night

A Picture of Sweden

Lars Gustafsson and Agneta Blomqvist

Smile of the Midsummer Night is a loving and poetic ode to this beautiful nation and a must-have for anyone interested in Scandinavia.

“Imparts a heart-warming sense of shared discovery and rediscovery.” —Times Literary Supplement

2015 120 p. 5 x 63/5 1 map 165 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-04-3 $22.95

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An Armchair Traveller’s History of Finland

Jonathan Clements

“Combines light-reading history with travel writing and uses various monuments that Clements has visited on journeys throughout his adopted homeland, highlighting key historical events and figures from pre-historic herders straight through to the creators of Angry Birds.” —Nordic Reach

2014 272 p. 41/2 x 81/4 2 maps 166 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-00-5 $22.95

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An Armchair Traveller’s History of Beijing

Jonathan Clements

“Evocatively captures the contradictions and complexitites of contemporary Beijing while rooting the city in its broader historical context. . . . A quick and breezy peek into Beijing life and culture.” —Times Literary Supplement

2016 320 p. 41/2 x 81/4 2 maps 167 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-27-2 $22.95

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An Armchair Traveller’s History of Tokyo

Jonathan Clements

This book sketches the city’s amazing trajectory from its humble beginnings as a group of forest clearings all the way to its planned role as host of the 2021 Olympic Games.

2019 212 p. 4 x 8 2 halftones 168 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-909961-58-6 $22.95

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