Category Archives: Travel Guides
Le Pays de l`Emblavez ร pied FFRP Topo-guide No. P433
Le Pays de l`Emblavez ร pied, FFRP topo-guide Ref. No. P433, with 20 day walks of varying length and difficulty in the hills north of Le Puy-en-Velay. Each walk is presented on a separate colour extract from IGN’s topographic survey of France at 1:25,000, with its description cross-referenced to the map. Current edition of this
Le Centre: Val de Loire ร pied FFRP Topo-guide No. RE11
Le Centre: Val de Loire ร pied, FFRP topo-guide ref. no. RE08, one of the titles in an extensive series of light, A5-size, high quality paperback guides published by the Fรฉdรฉration Franรงaise de la Randonnรฉe Pรฉdestre in association with local authorities, ramblers’ clubs, etc. The guides have *colour extracts from the French topographic survey at
Cote d`Emeraude – Les Chemins du Mont-Saint-Michel GR34/GR37
Cรดte d`Emeraude: Les Chemins du Mont-St-Michel, FFRP topoguide Ref. no. 345, covering in all 636km of GR routes in western Brittany: the coastal path between Mont-St-Michel, St-Malo and St-Brieuc, plus circuits linking Rennes with the coast. Current edition of this title was published in March 2019 ABOUT THE FFRP (Fรฉdรฉration franรงaise de la randonnรฉe pรฉdestre)
Volcan du Cantal – Pays de Saint-Flour – Haute-Auvergne GR400/4
Volcan du Cantal: Pays de Saint-Flour et de Ruynes-en-Margeride, FFRP topoguide, Ref. No. 400, covering 600kms of long-distance paths in the Cantal region of the Massif Central, which can also be walked as shorter circuits. Current edition of this title was published in July 2013.To see other titles in this series please click on the
Du Lรฉman ร la Vanoise – par le Mont Blanc et le Beaufortain GR5
The first, 206-km long Alpine section of the GR5 from Lake Geneva, past Mont Blanc and across the Col de la Croix-du-Bonhomme, to Landry north of the Vanoise Massif, FFRP topo-guide ref. no. 504, with colour maps from the IGN TOP25 series at 1:25,000. Also included is a tour of the Dents du Midi. Current
La Grande Traversee du Jura GR5/GR9/GTJ
La Grande Travesรฉe du Jura, FFRP topoguide Ref. no. 512, covering the GTJ along the Jura Mountains in France from Nommay to Culoz, plus several variants off the main route including parts of the GR5 and GR9 ‘“ in all 509kms of hiking trails. Current edition of this title was published in March 2017.The GR509
Le Parc de Millevaches en Limousin ร pied FFRP Topo-guide No. PN17
Le Parc de Millevaches en Limousin ร pied, topo-guide Ref. No. PN017, with 18 day walks of varying length and difficulty, plus 270kms of hiking circuits in the department of Creuse. Current edition of this title was published in March 2011.To see the list of other FFRP guides with day walks please click on the
La Traversรฉe des Alpes de la Maurienne a l`Ubaye GR5/GR56
9 days from Modane to Larche by the GR5, as much for the tour of Ubaye.Grande Traversรฉe des Alpes: de la Maurienne a l`Ubaye, FFRP topoguide Ref. No. 531, covering the third stage of the GR5 in the French Alps from Modane to Larche, plus the Tour de l`Ubaye at its southern end, in all
GR40: Tour des Volcans du Velay FFRP Topo-guide No. 425
GR40: Tour des Volcans du Velay, FFRP topo-guide ref. no. 425, one of the titles from an extensive series of light, high quality, A5 paperback guides to the Sentiers de Grande Randonnรฉe, the GR routes, a dense network of long-distance footpaths across the French countryside. Each topo-guide covers either a circular route, or part of
New York – Hidden Bars and Restaurants
Jonglez`s `New York Hidden Bars & Restaurants` features a 100 places with amazing decor, eccentric owners, bizarre food, old-time survivors and more that will please and astonish underground and post-industrial fans, refined gourmets and cocktail drinkers, world food lovers and anyone curious enough to discover the infinite possibilities to have fun in New York. Inside
Unusual Wines
Volcanic vineyards listed as UNESCO World Heritage, a peace wine blending over 600 varieties from around the world, vines standing 15 metres tall in Italy and Portugal, ice wines from Quebec, a wine from the Gobi desert, Taiwan`s huge yields, harvesting on 31 December, classical music among the vines, a Bordeaux made with dry ice,
Abandoned Asylums
Abandoned Asylums takes readers on an unrestricted visual journey inside America`s abandoned state hospitals, asylums, and psychiatric facilities, the institutions where countless stories and personal dramas played out behind locked doors and out of public sight. The images captured by photographer Matt Van der Velde are powerful, haunting and emotive. A sad and tragic reality
Abandoned France
Following the success of Sylvaine Margaine`s first book, Forbidden Places, Abandoned France continues his journey in search of forbidden and often overlooked places. He draws attention to the dramatic fate of the country`s heritage, the preservation of which has become a matter for serious reflection. An unrestricted visual journey inside the forgotten heritage of France;
Abandoned Italy
An exceptional photographic report of Abandoned Italy.Robin Brinaert has been travelling around Italy for over eight years in search of these abandoned, forbidden places. He highlights the sometimes dramatic fate of our heritage – a serious reflection on safeguarding. Inside Abandoned Italy : Discover the former hunting lodge of the Duchess of Parma, a spectacular
Abandoned Australia
Barren red deserts dotted with post-colonial ghost towns, dilapidated inner city factories, discarded country homesteads and a succession of dormant, soot-filled power stations are just a handful of the desolate, yet visually rich narratives that form part of the abandoned Australia landscape. Digging beneath the sun-baked soil, Shane Thoms uncovers the modern ruins scattered over
After the Final Curtain Vol. 2: America`s Abandoned Theatres
In the early 20th century the streets of small towns and cities across America were filled with the lights and sounds of movie theatres. The most opulent, known as “movie palaces”, were designed to make their patrons feel like royalty; people would dress up to visit. But as time went on it became harder and
Abandoned Cinemas of the World
An outstanding photographic report which draws attention to the often dramatic fate of the world`s abandoned heritage and its frequently forgotten beauty. The locations featured all have their own stories to tell, in a variety of voices, but with one shared theme: the fall from grace.Veteran photographer Simon Edelstein has spent 12 years travelling the
Baikonur: Vestiges of the Soviet Space Programme
The first ever collection of photographs showing in detail the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world`s most important urban exploration site. The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was created by the Soviets in the 1950s. It was from Baikonur in 1988 that the first Soviet spaceplane, Buran, was launched in response to the United States Space Shuttle.The Buran
Abandoned Churches: Unclaimed Places of Worship
Between 2012 and 2019 Francis Meslet photographed several hundred places of worship across Europe. Over time, these places have became enveloped in silence, the only thing heard there now an occasional gust of wind whistling though broken stained glass, or the rhythmic drip of water leaking through the dilapidated roof above a nave. Nevertheless, these
Abandoned Spain
Towns bombed during the Spanish Civil War that were never rebuilt; an international railway station once teeming with Nazi and Allied double agents, now concealing a state-of-the-art dark matter research laboratory; a former munitions dump hewn out of the mountainside; a winery whose vast tanks form a unique architectural site; and various laboratories that have
