Rough Guide Travel Guides
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Our Rough Guide to New York City is written by New York natives who performed an exhaustive search of their own backyard to compile a guide full of the best, the worst, and the just plain overrated in the city that never sleeps. We zero in on Manhattan, New York's crown jewel, and its world-class museums, restaurants, clubs and hotels, then take you to the rich and diverse outer boroughs, digging up the less obvious charms. It's all you need to feel like a local.
This guide includes details on the business of getting to Canada, with information about tour operators, airlines and all the options whether you're going on holiday, visiting friends or relatives or travelling on business. For covering the vast distances of Canadian territory, this guide gives a run-down on the various means available - by bus, train, plane, car, thumb or bicyle. As for staying when you get there, it provides all the details you need on motels, B&B, hostels, farm stays and camping. And unless you're a confirmed urbanite, Canada's great outdoors offers multiple attractions, from backpacking in the mountain parks to fishing, canoeing and of course skiing (and the rules of the country's spectator sports - ice hockey, Canadian football and baseball). The book gives inforamtion on each of Canada's major cities. Every corner of the country is explored and revealed, from Newfoundland in the east to the Yukon in the wild Arctic West and from the sadly unremarkable town of Medicine Hat to the Indian heritage site of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
Throughout the book there's analysis of Canada's complex political and social mix and good biographical background on the personalities, living and dead, that have helped shape the country. The book also includes coverage of Canadian wildlife, history, books and language.
Throughout the book there's analysis of Canada's complex political and social mix and good biographical background on the personalities, living and dead, that have helped shape the country. The book also includes coverage of Canadian wildlife, history, books and language.
From the mountains of Lombardy to the volcanic isles of Sicily, we take you to every corner of Italy's entrancing geography. The "most readable, comprehensive, and informative guide around" (Cosmopolitan) includes detailed accounts of all the sights and incisive coverage of Italian culture and customs.
"The Rough Guide to Mallorca and Menorca" provides unrivalled coverage of two of the Mediterranean's most popular islands. Features include:
Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg
by Martin Dunford, Jack Holland, and Phil Lee
Published 30 June 1994
This guide is a practical handbook to one of Europe's most surprising and diverse groupings of countries. Features include: an insider's perspective on the sights and nightlife of the major cities of Amsterdam and Brussels, Antwerp and Luxembourg, from the Rembrandts of the Rijksmuseum to the hottest downtown Antwerp clubs and cafes. Full details on how to get around and where to stay, from rock-bottom to luxury class, as well as on Belgium's world-famous cuisine are included. Enthusiastic accounts of the best of the region's countryside, and the best ways to see it, including hikes up the gorgeous green hills of the Ardennes, and mud-walks across to the duney islands of northern Holland.
A travel handbook featuring coverage of hiking routes, the national parks, and descriptions of Norway's fjords and tundra. The book offers reviews of the best places to eat, drink and sleep, whether in Oslo or in the villages, and has accounts of museums, galleries and ancient sites.
This guide covers the US states of Washington, Oregon and Alaska, and Canadian British Columbia and the Yukon. It provides accounts of what to do in Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, including critical first-hand reviews of hotels, restaurants, clubs and bars. Information is given on how to reach Alaska, whether by driving the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek to Fairbanks or by making the memorable ferry trip from Prince Rupert to Skagway. This book also features guidance into the Great Outdoors - trekking through the scorched landscape of Mount St Helens, exploring the Olympic and Mount Rainier National Parks, and hiking the Chilkoot from Alaska into the Yukon.
A 2nd revised and updated edition of this volume in the ROUGH GUIDES series, previously published in 1997. Flanders is covered in extra detail to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the 1918 armistice. Also features an article by the beer journalist, Michael Jackson, covering Belgium's finest. Includes over 30 pages on Luxembourg.
This handbook to Holland presents accounts of all there is to do and see. It includes reviews of where to stay, eat and drink, from Amsterdam's designer bars tot he small-town cafes of provincial Holland. There is also a discussion of Holland's history, art and literature.
Yugoslavia is a mixture of languages, people and cultures. Its countryside has variety, ranging from a 600-mile coastline with scores of accessible islands, to a little-known interior of Muslim villages, mountain ranges and remote Orthodox monasteries. This guide gives information to the traveller, whether one is scouring the coast for obscure Venetian masterpieces, hiking across the mountain ranges of Montenegro, skiing in the Julian Alps or simply aiming to soak up the sun. It details which ferries to catch, which tourist traps to avoid, where to find local rooms and cheap places to eat, and the country's best beaches and bars.
The Rough Guide to Mallorca is the ultimate handbook to this beautiful Mediterranean island. Includes comprehensive coverage of all the sights, from Miro's hillside studio to the echoing cloisters of Valldemossa monastery, and from Palma's old town to the remote beach at Cala Tuent. Detailed descriptions - with route maps - of the favourite walking routes in the Tramuntana mountains. Includes insider's reviews of the best places to eat, drink and sleep to suit all budgets.