Category Archives: Travel Guides
Burton Holmes. Travelogues. The Greatest Traveler of His Time
It was the Belle Epoque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870-1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home.From the grand boulevards of Paris to China`s Great Wall, from the construction of the Panama Canal to the 1906 eruption
Alpine Flowers Nature Guide
Alpine Flowers Nature Guide from Kompass, specialist in publishing walking maps of central Europe, presented in a handy pocket format and showing colour photos of 70 alpine flowers, each with a description.Information on each flower gives its Latin name, family, character (size, colour, leaf pattern, etc), flowering time, habitat, distribution and special remarks (poisonous, medicinal,
The Berlin Wall Story: Biography of a Monument
A stunning survey of the Berlin Wall – the central symbol of the Cold War Where did the Berlin Wall actually stand? Why was it built? How did people keep managing to escape across it? And how many died in the attempt? Why did it come down in the end? Numerous previously unknown photographs document
Sebastiao Salgado: Children
Innocence on the run: Sebastiao Salgado`s focus series on child migrants and refugees. In every crisis situation, children are the greatest victims. Physically weak, they are often the first to succumb to hunger, disease, and dehydration. Innocent to the workings and failings of the world, they are unable to understand why there is danger, why
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall Memorial Center on Bernauer Strasse is the main memorial site of divided Germany, located in the center of the German capital. Alongside the exhibit at the former border strip, a permanent exhibition entitled 1961 | 1989. The Berlin Wall was opened in November 2014, providing information about the political and historical context.
Rome: Portrait of a City
This bumper photographic portrait of Rome brings together hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through to today to explore the extraordinary history, beauty, and art of this incomparable cultural capital.From sepia and black and white to color, these outstanding images dating from the 1840s to the present day allow us – through the eyes of
Daughters
Lucy Fricke`s `Daughters` tells the story of two women either side of forty on a road trip across Europe, each of them dealing with difficult fathers along the way. A bestseller and booksellers favourite in Germany, `Daughters` evokes laughter and tears by way of life and death, friendship and family.Translated by Sinead Crowe
Cabins
Ever since Henry David Thoreau`s described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade, as our material existence and environmental footprint has grown exponentially, architects
Sebastiao Salgado. Amazonia
Sebastiao Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there-an irreplaceable treasure of humanity.In the book`s foreword Salgado writes: “For me, it is the last frontier, a mysterious universe of its own, where the immense power
SalzAlpenSteig: Chiemsee – Kรถnigssee -Halstรคtter See
The SalzAlpenSteig, a 227km-long hiking trail linking Chiemsee in southern Bavaria with Halstรคtter See in the Salzkammergut region of the Austrian Alps. The route, including alternative starting points in Rosenheim or Traunstein, is presented on 20 panels, accompanied by street plans several street plans and a route profile. Street plans show nine towns including Berchtesgaden.Maps
Lake Constance to Verona – E5 European Long-Distance Trail Kompass 2558
The 601km eastern half of Europe’s E5 long distance footpaths from Lake Constance across the Austrian Alps to Verona on a waterproof and tear-resistant, contoured and GPS compatible concertina map from Kompass presenting the route on 40 panels, each 17.5x20cm. Plus accommodations recommendations and street plans.The route is highlighted on maps at 1:50,000 and is
Sieg River Long-distance Trail
The Sieg River long-distance hiking trail, a 111km path along the Sieg from Au to Siegburg, just east of Cologne and Bonn. The route is presented on 4 panels, accompanied by street plans Au ‘“ Hamm and Siegburg. Maps in this new series from Kompass, begun in summer 2014, are at 1:50,000, contoured and GPS
Rheinsteig long-distance Trail Kompass 2503
The Rheinsteig, a 306km long-distance hiking trail from Bonn to Wiesbaden along the right bank of the Rhine, including a 65km stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage area and home to many castles, historic towns and vineyards which have inspiration for many writers, artists and composers. The route is presented on
Hermannsweg & Eggeweg Long-distance Trail: Teutoburger Wald – Eggegebirge
Hermannsweg plus Eggeweg, a combined 218km long-distance hiking trail in north-western Germany between Rheine and Marsberg along the Teutoburger Wald and hills of the Eggegebirge. The route is presented on 18 panels, accompanied by street plans of Rheine, Bielefeld, Horn-Bad Mainberg and Marsberg.Maps in this new series from Kompass, begun in summer 2014, are at
New Zealand – North Island Reise Know-How
New Zealand North Island at 1:550,000 on an indexed, waterproof and tear-resistant road map with topographic and tourist information, published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project. The map is double-sided to provide the best balance between a good scale and a convenient size sheet, with a very generous overlap
