 | My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City by Alexandra David-neel
Buy new: $11.69 / Used from: $5.98 |
 | The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.45 Warsaw during World War II is the background to this tale of quiet heroics.
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 | Paris France by Gertrude Stein
Buy new: $10.16 / Used from: $2.58 |
 | Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A. J. Liebling
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.46 |
 | Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $5.04 Over 200 b&w photos establish the special atmosphere of this book.
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 | Jerusalem: City of Mirrors by Amos Elon
Buy used from: $4.08 |
 | Havana: Autobiography of a City by Alfredo Jose Estrada
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $1.77 Recently published -- this book about history and place is on my list of books to read soon.
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 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $2.74 |
 | Alexandria: A History and a Guide by E. M. Forster
Buy used from: $135.00 No doubt the most obscure book on this list, but it's well worth finding if you can. Perhaps some day it will be reissued and appreciated.
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 | Dying for Jerusalem: The Past, Present and Future of the Holiest City by Walter Laqueur
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $1.20 Looking backward: Laqueur, born in 1921, compares Jerusalem in the 21st century with the city as he has known it since 1938.
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| Cairo in the War, 1939 - 1945 by Artemis Cooper
Buy used from: $52.85 Unfortunately this fascinating book is nearly unobtainable in the US at this time.
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 | Reading Berlin 1900 by Peter Fritzsche
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $12.58 |
 | Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake by Edward G. Seidensticker
Buy used from: $1.46 |
 | Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $4.70 |
 | The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $3.44 |
 | Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939 by Janet (Genet) Flanner
Buy new: $13.68 / Used from: $3.77 |
 | Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949: Revised Edition by Antony Beevor
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.50 |
 | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 by Mark Mazower
Buy used from: $4.17 |
 | The New Orleans Cookbook by Rima Collin
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.90 Only for this city would I feel that a cookbook captured one of the city's essences.
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 | A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $8.38 |
 | Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture by John Lukacs
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $4.49 |
 | Apple's America: The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to 40 Great Cities in the United States and Canada by R. W. Apple Jr.
Buy used from: $0.01 Another new book that covers many cities from a special point of view.
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 | Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel by Mr. Robert Alter
Buy new: $25.59 / Used from: $10.45 New York Times Book review June 19, 2005 made this new book sound fascinating -- though I found it somewhat disappointing.
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