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Cicerone Climbing, Mountaineering and Scrambling Guides
Cicerone Climbing, Mountaineering and Scrambling Guides are books about both the activities and techniques themselves, as well as the locations in which to do them, in both Great Britain and the rest of the world. The seriea also includes titles on alpine skiing and some guides include mountain walks to accompany the primary activity featured.Most
Michelin Green Guides: International Destinations
The Green Guide series from Michelin are detailed guides exploring the major sights and attractions of a range of cities, regions and countries. Drawing on a long publishing history, Michelin guides are renowned for their individual โ€star ratingโ€, ranking restaurants, sights and attractions. Listings in each guide are organised alphabetically, allowing readers to access information
Time Out Shortlist Guides
The Shortlist Guide series from Time Out explores a range of international destinations in a handy, pocket-sized format designed to introduce visitors to the best nightlife, entertainment and local attractions in the city. Expert local writers provide an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city, ensuring that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy and
Michelin Red Guides
Michelin Red Guides are hotel and restaurant guides that have an unparalleled reputation for reliability and consistency, which makes extensive use of keyed information to provide detailed and concise reviews. Guides are predominantly intended for the markets they are reviewing and, as such, are more often than not written in the native language(s) of their
Insight Guides
The Insight Guide series encompass a wide-ranging list of guides dedicated to exploring a variety of destinations in detail with a selection of glossy illustrations. Extensive introductory sections explore the regionโ€s history and culture and there are also short articles written by locals about distinctive local issues. Selective photo-features illustrate the variety of the region.
Sunflower Landscapes Guides, Car Tours and Walks
The Sunflower Landscapes guide series explores the best walking and touring possibilities in the region or area. Detailed information about touring by hired car or public transport, as well as on foot, is provided, helping walkers to navigate and plan day-trips. Shorter strolls are also included as an alternative for each main route for those
Great Britain: National Trails and Other Long Distance Paths
Walking guides to the National Trails in England and Wales and to other long distance paths with colour extracts from the Ordnance Survey`s Explorer series at 1:25,000 showing points along the route cross-referenced to the text. The maps also indicate nearby places of interest and various facilities including campsites and caravan parks, youth hostels, water
Time Out Cities and Regions Guides
The City and Regions series from Time Out are comprehensive guides to a range of cities and their surrounding regions and include some of the most detailed listings and directories of places to eat and drink and things to do and see. Time Out guides are strongly focussed on local entertainment and nightlife, in addition
Berlitz Pocket Guides
The Pocket Guide series from Berlitz are a collection of handy, pocket-sized guides dedicated to an extensive range of cities, regions and countries worldwide. Written in narrative form, individual guides explore the history, main sights and attractions, food and drink, accommodation and local culture of the destination in detail. Each Berlitz pocket guide has a
Silver Earthspheres
Carefully hand silk-screened silver continents, red longitude and latitude markings, and black nomenclature give the Silver Earthsphere a rich, high-tech look. Crafted of cast clear acrylic, these spheres offer you a contemporary way to understand geopolitical relationships.Silver Earthspheres present the most up-to-date cartography with current country boundaries, capitals, major cities, and bodies of water. Spheres
David McDowall Walker`s Guides
David McDowallโ€s Walkerโ€s Guides are a series of exceptional guidebooks that peel away the onion layers of history to reveal the landscape`s story. Far from merely outlining routes and providing directions, these guidebooks constitute some of the best-researched and richly detailed walking guides available. Virtually any landscape tells a story about the interaction between geology,
Everyman Guides
Everyman Guides aim to provide the tourist with illustrated and encyclopaedic information on the area they cover, including customs and traditions. As well as featuring the usual information of what to see and where to go, the guides look particularly at nature, history, architecture, skills of everyday life and how the location has been viewed
The Pop-Up Guide: Space
What`s out in space? Can we travel to other planets? What do astronauts do? Children can find out the answers to these questions and more in this accessible and interactive guide. The multilayered 3-D scenes leap off every page, allowing young readers to experience space in a unique way.* 10 big multilayered pop-ups, one on
Bradt Travel Guides
The Travel Guide series from Bradt encompasses a comprehensive range of titles to destinations worldwide, with a particular focus on Africa, Central and South America. Bradt are one of the countryโ€s leading independent publishers and have an ethos that focuses on responsible travel, in alliance with a philosophy of sustainability; both in the destinations the
Lonely Planet Countries and Regions Guides
The Countries and Regions series from Lonely Planet are market-leading comprehensive guides aimed at independent travellers and serve a large range of international destinations. Frank and informal in style, the guides explore an extensive range of sights, activities, accommodation, restaurants and nightlife and are designed for practical use while travelling on the road. Written and
Bradt Wildlife Guides
The unique Wildlife Guide series by Bradt focuses exclusively on the wildlife of selected regions and countries worldwide, exploring birds, mammals, insects, plants, habitats, geology, conservation, hikes and top bird-watching sites. Each title in the series is an ideal introduction to the wildlife of the destination and an ideal visitorsโ€ souvenir. Bradt are one of
Lonely Planet Shoestring Guides
The Shoestring guide series from Lonely Planet are market-leading, comprehensive guides aimed specifically at those travelling independently on a budget and cover popular backpacking destinations. Frank and informal in style, the guides explore an extensive range of sights, activities, accommodation, restaurants and nightlife and are designed for practical use while travelling on the road. Written
Frommer`s Countries, Regions & Cities Guides
The Countries, Regions & Cities guide series from Frommerโ€s, one of Americaโ€s leading travel publishers, explore a comprehensive range of international destinations and are particularly strong on American cities and regions, offering coverage that is often otherwise unavailable from other publishers. Stylistically, Frommerโ€s editorial style is strongly American in tone and focus, often offering insights
Lonely Planet Phrasebooks
Lonely Planet Phrasebooks are not only an extensive list of useful phrases, but also an ideal tool to start getting to grips with a language and beginning two-way communication. Containing excellent sections on language basics such as numbers, question phrases, dates, phrase construction, grammar and pronunciation, as well as containing concise but well-rounded two-way dictionaries,
Blue Guides
Blue Guides focus primarily on cultural tourism for the visitor who wishes to understand more of what they might see and, as such, their titles provide thorough and objective reference information covering art, history and architecture. The guides feature colour illustrations aimed to inform rather than just decorate, such as maps, diagrams, floor plans, architectural
