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Best of the Adriatic in 14 Days : Recommended Reading & Viewing

This region is rich in history, art and culture. Any preliminary reading, viewing or listening you can do will help you get the most from your trip. For more information on any of these books, visit your favorite bookstore or check out amazon.com; for video information, go to imdb.com. Rick Steves guidebooks are available at our office in Edmonds and also on our website's Travel Store.

Recommended Reading

All Non-Fiction

• Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends — Lonnie Johnson
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon — Rebecca West
• Café Europa: Life After Communism — Slavenka Drakulić
• How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed — Slavenka Drakulić
• The Balkan Express — Slavenka Drakulić
• Croatia: A Nation Forged in War — Marcus Tanner

Rick Steves' Travel DVDs

For a fun, informative preview of your next tour destination, watch a DVD from our "Rick Steves' Europe" TV series! Our online Travel Store has 70 shows available on 12 DVDs (a generous five to eight shows per disc).

Films

• When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
• Tito and Me (1992)
• The Death of Yugoslavia (1995, 6-part BBC miniseries)
• Underground (1995)
• How the War Started on My Island (1996)
• No Man's Land (2001)
• Border Post (2006)

Mood Music

• Oliver Dragojević; Gibonni; Goran Karan (dreamy, romantic contemporary music)
• Avsenik; Gorenjski Muzikantje (alpine folk)
• California; Tabu; Tinkara Kovac (pop)
• Laibach (industrial rock)