A popular series of guidebooks for the modern-day traveler offering information on cities and countries around the world continues, presenting up-to-date backgrounds and descriptions, detailed maps, hundreds of photographs, and much more, including walking and driving tours, visitor information directories, and cultural sidebars.
Visitor information.
Loaded with hard service information for each location, Destinations of a Lifetime has it all: when to go, where to eat, where to stay, and what to do to ensure the most enriching and authentic experience.
—CLIVE CARPENTER National Geographic contributor exterior and art-nouveau interio, was built for a German aristocrat in the late 19th century. The laststop on the cruise is Schloss Thun, a large medieval castle built by the Dukes of ...
The 15th and 16th centuries saw a rash of construction on what was called the Mons Vatioans. The result, a labyrinthine complex of interconnected palaces, grew up around St Peter's in a largely disordered fashion. In the mid-1400s, ...
A tour of Alaska's history, landscape, geography, and culture includes photographs, illustrated sidebars, little-known facts, and maps as well as travel tips and practical recommendations for visitors to the forty-ninth state.
A large map shows every location covered in the book, and each entry has a locator map depicting the city and country. Both entertaining and informative, this book is an invaluable resource and inspiration for a lifetime of travel.
From the storied capital of Bogotá to Medelín to the Amazon Basin, this guide to Colombia, South America, offers readers practical advice on planning your trip and explains the country in the context of its history, culture, cuisine, ...
A young food writer's witty and irresistible celebration of her mom's "Indian-ish" cooking--with accessible and innovative Indian-American recipes
Previous edition published as National Geographic guide to national parks of the United States.
By the time author John Steinbeck published his allegorical novel about the misfortunes of a poor oyster-diving family, The Pearl, in 1947, La Paz's oys. ters were history, finished off by a mysterious blight. La Paz EN 55 D1 Visitor ...