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Insight Select Guides
The Select Guide series offers a more exclusive range of handy-sized city break guides from the publisher Insight, with a collection of over 100 inspiring ideas for your chic-urban stay, including plenty of secret gems and off-beat haunts designed for informed, experienced travellers and those on a repeat visit but looking for fresh insights. All
Thomas Cook Pocket Guides
The Thomas Cook Pocket Guide series comprise a range of handy, pocket-sized guides covering a comprehensive range of international cities and regions. Each of the guides in the series identifies the destinationโ€s most entertaining highlights and principal attractions, helping visitors decide what to do in a limited time. The guides are aimed at those planning
Thomas Cook `Traveller` Guides
The Thomas Cook โ€Travellersโ€ guide series cover an extensive range of cities, regions and countries world-wide and explore the historical, cultural and geographical aspects of the destination in considerable detail. The series is unique in exploring these elements in addition to providing practical guidance including suggested itineraries and local attractions. A detailed introduction profiles the
Xenophobe Guides
The Xenophobe guide series consist of a range of pocket-sized guides which take a humorous and irreverent approach to a wide range of world cultures. Each guide explores the characteristics of a countryโ€s people in a series of dedicated sections, encompassing nationalism and identity, behaviour, manners, character, obsessions, beliefs and values, leisure and pleasure, culture,
Alastair Sawday Accommodation Guides
Alastair Sawdayโ€s Accommodation Guides have carved an especial corner for themselves in the area of the market inhabited by bespoke and select books which recommend more especial places to stay. The company has a green ethos and values highly the personal relationships it has with the owners of the properties they choose to feature and
Fodor’s Cities, Regions & Countries Gold Guides
The Countries, Regions & City Gold Guides from Fodorโ€s, one of Americaโ€s principal travel publishers, explore a range of destinations worldwide and have notably strong coverage of the North, Central and South America. Fodorโ€s editorial style is noticeably American in tone and focus, often offering insights and observations with an American audience in mind. However,
Fodor`s In Focus Guides
The In Focus guide series from Fodorโ€s comprise a range of handy, pocket-sized guides exploring largely American destinations โ€“ including National Parks โ€“ in addition to Caribbean islands. In Focus Guides are written and researched in a similar way to their more comprehensive relations the Gold Guides, but provide focused information in a more portable
USA: NGS State Maps
USA state maps from the National Geographic with cartography from Mapquest, with each title providing additional tourist information through city maps and enlargements of popular areas, national park site listings, a calendar of annual events, etc. Each map clearly shows the stateโ€s national parks, forests and other protected areas, with topography indicated by subtle relief
New Holland Globetrotter Travel Guides
New Hollandโ€s Globetrotter Travel Guides comprise a range of practical and accessible guides to a number of cities, regions and countries worldwide. Globetrotter guides incorporate essential information in an easy-to-carry and easy-to-reference format. They provide visitors with an introduction highlighting the countryโ€s โ€must seeโ€ areas, allowing readers to make the most of their time away.
USA: Rand McNally Regional Maps
Rand McNally regional road maps covering the environs of larger US cities and designed to offer more detailed coverage than provided on the publishersโ€ state maps. The maps are indexed and many titles also include additional panels with street plans of the downtown area, etc, as indicated in the individual descriptions.The series presents the road
USA: GTR Mapping Recreational Maps of Rocky Mountain States
The Rocky Mountains states of USA in a series of indexed topographic recreational maps from GTR designed to provide good presentation of each stateโ€s geography, protected areas, recreational facilities and places of interest.Topography is presented by contours at 1000 feet intervals, enhanced by changes in altitude colouring every 2000โ€, plus names of mountain ranges. The
Wilderness Lectures Tickets
The Wilderness Lectures is a winter series of public lectures at the University of Bristol in the Chemistry Theatre, the theme of which is world-wide adventure. The lecturers are well known explorers, mountaineers, travel writers, TV and adventure sports personalities or anyone who has an epic story to tell and can entertain the audience with
Stanfords Maps of London Boroughs (PRINT ON DEMAND/FLAT MAPS)
Stanfords Maps of London Boroughs (PRINT ON DEMAND/FLAT MAPS) are produced in-house by the digital department at our Long Acre store and have been designed by laying a bespoke, tailored borough map onto on a base map using Ordnance Survey Street View mapping. Each borough area is represented by a colour map, with the surrounding
Rough Guide Thematic, Pictorial & Reference Titles
Drawing on over 25 years of travel publishing experience, Rough Guides publish a range of thematic, pictorial and reference titles celebrating travel and providing inspiration for future trips away. Many of the guides give advice on different elements of travel and are influenced by ethical and green considerations. Individual titles are also dedicated to some
Footprint Thematic Destination Guides
The โ€Thematic Destinationsโ€ series from Footprint explore a range of varied worldwide destinations and are designed and written for independent travellers who enjoy exploring off the beaten track. The guides are designed to provide an insight into particular themes of a destination rather than the country as a whole, and as such are recommended for
Footprint Lifestyle Guides
Footprint publish a range of โ€Lifestyle Guidesโ€ comprising of a range of thematic activities, encompassing different kinds of travel and providing ideas for future trips. Individual themes include travelling with children, wine, body and soul retreats, city breaks, travel photography and football grounds. Many of the guides are published as large paperbacks and include practical
Footprint Outdoor Guides
The Outdoor Guides series from Footprint features a range of titles dedicated to various aspects of outdoor life and adventure. Individual books cover skiing, surfing, mountain biking and diving, encompassing a wide range of countries and regions and offering both inspiration and practical guidance for those interested in the outdoors. In addition to focussing on
USA: Benchmark Road and Recreational Atlases of Western USA
The Rockies and the western states of USA in a series of excellent, detailed, GPS compatible state atlases from Benchmark Maps with extensive information on diverse recreational opportunities and facilities. Each atlas consists of three main sections:LANDSCAPE: with detailed mapping at scales around 1:250,000, according to the size of the state. Excellent use of relief
USA: Map Maps Long-Distance Cross-Country Touring Routes
Five routes across the USA: along the Atlantic or the Pacific coasts, east-west across the northern or the southern states, plus Route 66 on maps published by the San Francisco-based Mad Maps. The maps, printed on light, waterproof and tear-resistant synthetic paper, are double-sided and provide in each title a general overview map of the
Canada: Mussio Ventures Backroad Mapbook Guides
Popular tourist regions of British Columbia, the Rockies and Atlantic Provinces in a series of high quality contoured, GPS compatible atlases from Mussio Ventures, with extensive guides to recreational pursuits including hiking, off-road cycling, quad biking, fishing, etc.Each title is in a spiral-bound, A4 format and contains a detailed atlas section with contours excellently enhanced
