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Lonely Planet Japan

LONELY PLANET. · Lonely Planet
Pages: 928
Format: Paperback

#1 best-selling guide to Japan* Lonely Planet Japan is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore a bamboo grove in Arashiyama, marvel at Shinto and Buddhist architecture in Kyoto, or relax in the hot springs...
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Fodor's New York City 25 Best

Fodor's Travel Publications · Fodor's Travel
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

Compact and affordable, Fodor's 25 Best New York City 2019 is a great travel guide for those who want an easy-to-pack guidebook and map to one of the most exciting cities in the United States.Fodor's 25 Best Guides offer highlights of major city destinations in a compact package...
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Official Guide to the Smithsonian, 4th Edition

Smithsonian Institution. · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

The Smithsonian Institution holds more than 142 million artifacts and specimens in its trust. This colorful guide to the museums and galleries on the National Mall, in the Washington metropolitan area, and in New York City presents an enormous amount of history and pertinent museum information,...
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Lonely Planet Scandinavia

Lonely Planet · Lonely Planet; 12 edition
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Scandinavia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cruise through Norway's majestic fjords, float in Iceland's Blue Lagoon...
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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London

Lauren Elkin · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Amazon Best Books of the Month (March 2017) The New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceFinancial Times, New Statesman and The Guardian Best Books of 2016The flneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon....
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The New York Times: Footsteps: From Ferrante's Naples to Hammett's San Francisco, Literary Pilgrimages Around the World

New York Times · Three Rivers Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A curated collection of the New York Times' travel column, "Footsteps," exploring iconic authors' relationships to landmarks and cities around the world Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby's sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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Fodor's The Carolinas & Georgia

FODOR'S TRAVEL GUIDES. · Fodor's Travel
Pages: 624
Format: Paperback

Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years.Filled with color photos as stunning as the region itself, Fodor's The Carolinas and Georgia delivers the best of the South from the pristine waters of the Outer Banks...
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Frommer's Germany

Stephen Brewer · Frommermedia
Pages: 736
Format: Print book

Germany has the largest population of any nation in Western Europe, and is the ancestral home of the single largest ethnic group in America. To do justice to this major nation, we have called upon the talents and research abilities of six long-experienced journalists, most of them living...
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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia

David Greene · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Travels with NPR host David Greene along the Trans-Siberian Railroad capture an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.Far away from the trendy cafés, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.Midnight in Siberia chronicles...
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Lonely Planet Hong Kong

LONELY PLANET. · Lonely Planet
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Hong Kong is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Ride the hair-raising tram to Victoria Peak, feast on seafood at Temple Street Night...
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National Geographic Guide to National Parks of the United States, 8th Edition

National Geographic · National Geographic Society
Pages: 494
Format: Print book

In time for the National Park's 100th birthday, this flagship, best-selling guide is fully revamped and updated with all new text, photographs, and design. National Geographic writers hit all 59 national parks - including Pinnacles, the newest in the crown - for intensive on-the-ground...
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Frommer's EasyGuide to San Francisco

ERIKA LENKERT · FrommerMedia
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback

Compact enough to carry and completely up-to-date, Frommer's EasyGuide to San Francisco takes you from world-famous bridges to hopping restaurants to evocative historic sights and everywhere in between. Frommer's local author Erika Lenkert knows every inch of the city and she's not afraid...
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1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, updated ed.

Patricia Schultz · Workman Publishing Company; Updated edition
Pages: 1200
Format: Paperback

The 1,000 Places to See books are pleasurable, inspiring, wondrous, a best-selling phenomenon and, yes, practical: Announcing the updated edition of 1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada Before You Die, The New York Times No. 1 bestseller. Because USA & Canada is not only a wish...
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City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris

Rupert Christiansen · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious program of public works in Paris, directed by Georges-Eug?ne Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine....
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Kentucky Off the Beaten Path®: A Guide to Unique Places

Zoe Strecker · Globe Pequot Press; Tenth Edition edition
Format: Print book

Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, let Kentucky Off the Beaten Path show you the Bluegrass State you never knew existed.Soothe your ailments and your hunger with the healing properties of poke at the Poke Sallet...
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