Here is a brief selection of favorite, new and hard-to find books, prepared for your journey. For your convenience, you may call (800) 342-2164 to order these books directly from Longitude, a specialty mail-order book service. To order online, and to get the latest, most comprehensive selection of books for your voyage, go directly to reading.longitudebooks.com/NV10433.

ESSENTIAL
These 4 items are available as a set for $72 including
shipping, 15% off the retail price (Item EXBLT34). Free shipping on any additional books ordered.

Thomas Cook Publishers
Baltic Cruising
2009, PAPER, 175 PAGES, $16.95
This handy pocket guide covers history, politics, culture
and highlights of the region from Denmark and Sweden
to Russia. (Item BLT40)

Alan Palmer
The Baltic, A New History of the Region and Its People
2007, PAPER, 448 PAGES, $19.95
The prolific British historian covers the history of the
region from the Viking era to modern day. A vivid,
sweeping chronicle with its share of entertaining anecdote.
(Item BLT22)

Eyewitness Guides
Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg
2010, PAPER, 264 PAGES, $25.00
An outstanding guide to St. Petersburg, its culture, history and attractions. With excellent local maps and site plans. (Item RUS87)

Freytag & Berndt
Baltic Sea States Map
2008, MAP, $14.95
This detailed (1:800,000), double-sided map covers not
just the Baltic States but the entire Baltic region from
Copenhagen across to Gdansk, St. Petersburg, Oslo and
Stockholm. (Item BLT38)

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Eyewitness Guides
Eyewitness Travel Guide Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
2009, PAPER, 432 PAGES, $28.00
Take along this compact, profusely illustrated travel guide featuring bright color photography, dozens of maps and a region-by-region synopsis. With a 50-page section on where to stay and eat. (Item BLT35)

Sasha Heseltine
Frommer's Copenhagen Day by Day
2009, PAPER, $12.99
A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping. With a separate foldout map. (Item DMK43)
We also carry Frommer's Stockholm Day by Day.
(Item SWE56)

Nigel Wallis
Bradt City Guide Helsinki
2007, PAPER, 300 PAGES, $13.99
This convenient pocket guide features an overview of the history and culture of Helsinki along with a few color
photographs and maps. (Item SCN47)

Anatol Lieven
The Baltic Revolution
1994, PAPER, 454 PAGES, $32.50
A Latvian correspondent for the London Times, Lieven
weaves history, interviews and analysis into a vivid cultural portrait of post-Glasnost Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania. (Item BLT02)

T.K Derry
A History of Scandinavia: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland
2000, PAPER, 447 PAGES, $25.00
Scandinavia from prehistory to the present with chapters
on the Viking and Lutheran kingdoms, medieval times,
monarchies, the World Wars and modern period, emphasizing the common cultural, political and social backgrounds.
(Item SCN03)

Yves Cohat
The Vikings, Lords of the Seas
1992, PAPER, 146 PAGES, $12.95
An indispensable reference that fits in your pocket, this
slim volume is packed with maps, archival photographs,
and illustrations. It tells of the Norse homeland, discoveries and settlements, and also features a useful chronology and excerpts from the Viking Sagas. Part of the "Discoveries" series. (Item VIK01)

David Remnick
Lenin's Tomb
1994, PAPER, 588 PAGES, $16.95
A gripping eyewitness tale of the collapse of the Soviet
Union. Remnick, the Washington Post reporter on the
scene, combines fine historical scholarship with great
storytelling. (Item RUS07)

W. Bruce Lincoln
Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia
2002, PAPER, 432 PAGES, $19.95
A wonderfully written, informative portrait of St. Petersburg, focusing on the city's development in the 18th and 19th centuries as Russia's "window on the West." Highly recommended for travelers with an interest in the character and significance of the city and its monuments. (Item RUS128)

Stephen Turnbull
Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights, The Stone Castles of Latvia and Estonia
2004, PAPER, 64 PAGES, $18.95
A heavily illustrated history of the medieval crusader castles of the Livonian Order (1185-1560) of Teutonic
Knights in present-day Estonia and Latvia. With contemporary photos. (Item BLT19)

Scala Masterpieces
The Hermitage, Masterpieces
2008, PAPER, 157 PAGES, $29.95
This slim book, featuring color illustrations of hundreds
of important works, is an excellent guide to European
paintings at the Hermitage. (Item RUS90)

Carolyn G. Hart
Set Sail for Murder
2008, PAPER, 311 PAGES, $6.99
Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O' Dwyer Collins,
Henrie O to her friends, joins her dear old friend Jimmy
Lennox on a Baltic cruise in this seventh installment in
the cozy series. (Item BLT42)

Arthur Ransome
Racundra's First Cruise
2006, HARD COVER, 255 PAGES, $32.95
A new edition of Ransome's delightful 1923 account the
eventful maiden voyage of his 30-foot ketch, Racundra,
built for the Baltic, with the original maps, photographs
and annotations. (Item BLT41)

Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009, PAPER, 480 PAGES, $14.95
Larsson combines murder mystery, family saga, love story and financial intrigue into a complex and atmospheric novel set in Stockholm and the snowy landscapes of northern Sweden. (Item SWE54)

Robert Massie
Peter the Great, His Life and World
1981, PAPER, 914 PAGES, $21.00
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Massie portrays
the giant of history who transformed Russia from backwater tsardom into a major empire. (Item RUS48)

Henning Mankell
The Dogs of Riga
2004, PAPER, 336 PAGES, $14.95
In this installment of Mankell's Kurt Wallender crime
series, the Swedish detective travels to Latvia on the
shadowy trail of a grisly murder. A gripping read, steeped in Baltic ambiance. (Item BLT24)