For backpackers, cost-conscious families, first-time or seasoned travellers, these guides, updated annually, contain listings covering both cities and countryside, plus information on culture, history and people. Features include rail, city and regional maps, advice on work, study, hiking and biking, nightlife and even shopping tips. The researchers are all Harvard-Radcliffe students. They have to "make it on their own" - they have no expense accounts, no free hotel rooms and they travel on budg...
"Time Out" Buenos Aires ("Time Out" Guides)
by Time Out Guides Ltd.
Buenos Aires, the cultural highlight on many trips to South America, is changing like never before. Every week new boutique hotels, restaurants, secret bars, art galleries and designer shops open in a blur of champagne and cocktails. The terraces of football stadiums heave with passionate fanatics of world-class teams such as Boca Juniors, while in the dimly lit halls of the city's old quarter, couples, in sensual embrace, dance the tango. Visitors to this city can participate in every aspect of...
A high-speed hop from London, Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne, the city at Europe's crossroads is as distinguished, diverse and distinctive as any continental capital. Home to the Surrealists and the Breughels, this living monument to art nouveau enjoys a gastronomic reputation second to none - complemented by boundless bar crawls and style-conscious shopping sprees. Using local journalists, writers and experts, the Time Out Brussels city guide offers an informed and detailed excursion around the c...
The book may be small enough to fit in your pocket, but it is packed with essential information on what to do and see in the city and beyond. From the team that brought you the Azerbaijan Explorer (Live Work Explore), this mini marvel is your handy guide to the best of Baku.
Vintage Journal Travel Poster, New York City (Pocket Sized - Found Image Press Journals)
Vintage Journal Travel Poster, New York City (Pocket Sized - Found Image Press Journals)
The Pyrenees, West and East (Classic Reprint)
by Charles Richard Weld
A guide to Belize for travellers. It describes the whitewashed thatched Mayan huts, limestone plains, tropical forests, picture-perfect palm trees, coastal wetlands and piney mountains, as well as the people and culture. There is comprehensive information on Belize's top attractions, including the barrier reef, and also discusses unexplored areas rich with history and tradition, places with colourful names and equally colourful pasts such as Gallon Jug, Double Head Cabbage, and Monkey River. The...
Adventures in Mexico (Classic Reprint)
by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton
The Oranges of Sicily: A Culinary History of the World's Most Important Fruit + 30 Curious Recipes
The third edition covers France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands/Holland and includes plans of the major cities. In a handy A5 format, with a scale of 16 miles to the inch, it also contains a comprehensive index containing 4500 place names. The atlas includes a route-planning map, a distance chart with the distance shown in kilometres and incorporates toll points and their closure periods, viewpoints and mountain passes.
Kyoto Pocket Precincts (Pocket Precincts)
by Michelle Mackintosh and Steve Wide
Steeped in history, tradition and beauty, Kyoto reflects the changing of the seasons more than any other city in the world. There are 2000 temples and shrines to visit, the intricate culture of Geisha, tea houses, Zen gardens, and artisan crafts that are just as important today as they were a thousand years ago. In a compact, light paperback format perfect for slipping into your back pocket, Kyoto Pocket Precincts is your curated guide to the city's most interesting cultural, shopping, eating an...
Britain hosts a diversity of freshwater environments, from torrential hill streams and lowland rivers to lakes and reservoirs, ponds and canals, and ditches and estuaries. Britain's Freshwater Fishes covers more than 50 species of freshwater and brackish fish found in these waters. This beautifully illustrated guide features in-the-hand and in-the-water photographs throughout, and accessible and informative overviews of topics such as fish biology and life cycles. Detailed species accounts descr...