Hunter Travel Guides Bucks County & the Delaware River Valley: Alive! (Bucks County & the Delaware River Valley Alive) (Paperback)

Doylestown, Lambertville, Princeton, New Hope – this brand new Alive! Guide spans the region surrounding the Delaware River in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The area thrives with cooking schools run by master chefs, wineries and brewpubs, talented artist communities, antique stores, cinemas showing offbeat films, romantic inns and great restaurants. This guide unveils the treasures, as well as local adventures, from ballooning and mule-barging to shad-fishing. Index. Maps.

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Up-to-the-minute Alive Guides cover every aspect of travel in each exciting destination – places rarely covered by otherguidebooks! Alive Guides focus on hotels and restaurants, with descriptions based on repeat visits by well-traveled authors.Establishments are rated with the unique Alive rating system, so you can find one to suit your taste and pocketbook. Particularattention is given to shopping in the exotic regions, with details on local artists, cut-price de (more…)

Hunter Travel Guides Cruising the Mediterranean: A Guide to the Ports of Call (Cruising the Mediterranean) (Paperback)

This is a thorough update for this cruising season, with extensive details on every vessel travelling in the Med. The author, a cruising veteran, covers all facts from level of service, cabin size, decor and layout, to ship amenities, passenger/crew ratio and dining options. Sailing routes are reviewed candidly, and the pitfalls and bonuses of each are given, making you an educated cruise traveller. Port profiles are tailored to the cruising visitor – taxi tours, dockside phones, the best shops, plus a list of operators who are familiar with cruise schedules and will get you back to your ship on time. You’ll find walking tours and out-of-town attractions keyed to detailed maps. The coverage includes Portugal, Spain, France, Monaco, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Black Sea, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and the Atlantic Isles of the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores.

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Adventure Guide to Germany (Adventure Guides Series) (Paperback)

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Bursting with relevant and exciting information, Adventure Guides are certainly helpful. — Booklist

This guide covers all of Germany in detail, from Berlin to Dresden, the Black Forest to Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and Bavaria. How to get special discounts (some 20 for train and bus travel alone), with tips for saving on gas, on hotels, on museums – insights only an insider would know. The best shopping, the foods and wines – what to look for and where to find it. All the places to stay described in detail, from guesthouses and hostels to the most luxurious hotels. Germany has the world’s largest Gothic church at Cologne and more medieval castles than any country in the world. Hundreds of small towns are barely changed from the Middle Ages. The author guides us through all of the best castles, churches, museums and other historic sites. Rhine cruises, wine tours, concerts, theater, town and country walks, canoeing and kayaking, cycling – it’s all here. (more…)

Hunter Travel Guides Bermuda (Adventure Guide to Bermuda) (Paperback)

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“Comprehensive… promises everything but boredom.” San Antonio Express”
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With more than 150 islands and islets surrounded by pristine sandy beaches and clear blue waters, Bermuda is a dream destination for travellers the world over.”Adventure Guide Bermuda” provides readers with everything they need to know for planning a trip to this stunning destination, including the best places to stay and eat – for all tastes and budgets, practical travel advice, and expert information on what to pack and when to go.This fully revised guide also includes up-to-date info on all the exciting adventures and activities just waiting to be enjoyed – from snorkelling and diving on the magnificent coral reefs to historic tours and fishing trips.It features comprehensive and up-to-date information on where to stay and what to do in this spectacular holiday destination.

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Time Out New York (Time Out Guides) (Paperback)

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“Fantastic, au courant listings of both hotels and restaurants include salient details to nail the essence of a place and provide all practical info.”
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Having passed the five-year anniversary since the tragedy of September 11th 2001, New York City looks forward to a brighter future. Constructions on the Freedom Tower and the memorial, Reflecting Absence, as well as a host of other development projects in the Financial District, are underway. Tourism is booming, too, with record number of visitors being reported for 2006, with roughly 5,000 new hotel rooms in the works through the end of 2007. Manhattan, with its glittering skyline, chic restaurants, world-famous museums and historic sights continues to draw millions of people from around the globe. As publisher of the city’s definitive cultural listings magazine, Time Out is uniquely positioned to keep visitors up to speed on all things (more…)

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels A Sourcebook (Routledge Guides to Literature) (Paperback)

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is one of the major texts of the eighteenth century, and its satire of contemporary events and debates raises questions of genre, philosophy and politics.Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Swift’s novel offers:· extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of the text, from publication to the present· annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself· cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism· suggestions for further reading.Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Gulliver’s Travels and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Swift’s text.

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Philadelphia (Travel Guides) (Paperback)

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New York (Eyewitness Travel Guides) (Paperback)

Eyewitness Travel Guides are the original illustrated travel guidebooks-and they’re still the best. Since 1993, the Eyewitness brand has established itself as one of the industry leaders, with sales of more than 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Featuring more than 70 worldwide destinations, new titles are being added to the best-selling Eyewitness Travel Guides series each year. In 2003, to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of Eyewitness Travel Guides, DK is re-launching the entire series, fully updated, and with a brand-new look.

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Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides: New York (Eyewitness Travel Top 10) (Paperback)

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Each book is a visual as well as informational feast about a particular place. — The New York TimesEasily the best city guides available today. — PlayboyEyewitness Travel Guides are marvels of writing, color photography and illustration. What makes these so special is their thoroughness. — New York Times SyndicateFor comprehensive advice that is attractively presented, publisher Dorling Kindersley’s guides for serious travelers are tough to beat. — US News & World ReportHats off to DK for the Eyewitness Travel Guides…[they] raise the bar for all others. — Dallas Morning NewsThe best travel guides ever. — Sky MagazineThe most graphically exciting and visually pleasing series on the market. — Chicago TribuneThe most visually appealing volume is EYEWITNESS NEW YORK. Splendidly designed, bursting with color photographs…. — Money magazine
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Mobil Travel Guide Florida, 2005 (Mobil Travel Guides (Includes All 16 Regional Guides)) (Paperback)

Review”Food & Wine magazine has given Mobil Travel Guide’s Regional Planners an A+ for Usefulness, making the top grade over both Fodor’s and Frommers versions.”– Food & Wine “Overall, these guides are the winners in this group, combining attractive maps and graphics, comprehensive listings and a few suggestions for itineraries.” — Joseph Siano, New York Times “Mobil, the guidebook publisher oversees what many consider the Oscars of the travel industry.”– Gene Sloan, USA Today

The Mobil Travel Guide star ratings are a 45-year-old consumer advocacy concept originally developed following the introduction of the interstate highway system. The goal of the Guide is not to identify and rate every property in the country, but to recommend only the best in each category, ones that we would send our customers to. We look at the stars from a consumer’s point of view, rating lodgings and restaurants across North America from the perspective of the “average traveler.”The Gui (more…)

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