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A SELECTION OF EUROPEAN TRAVEL BOOKS


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Lonely Planet
Western Europe
Paperback - 1200 pages
5th Ed (26 January, 2001)
This guide includes listings of accommodation and eating places, as well as a language guide with useful words and phrases in seven languages. Notes on the history, culture and politics of the region are also featured along with advice on outdoor activities and transport options.
Rough Guide
Europe
Paperback - 1224 pages
8th Ed (6 December, 2001)
The ultimate budget handbook to the continent, giving comprehensive coverage of all of Europe's top cities, towns and sights, with up-to-date listings of the best accommodation, restaurants and clubs and the latest information on cultural events. Includes practical guidance on getting around the continent as well as tips on how to adapt to each country's culture.
Lonely Planet
Central Europe
Paperback - 736 pages
4th Ed (26 January, 2001)
A comprehensive guide to travelling around Central Europe, designed for all budgets. It covers best places to stay and eat, information on visas, border crossings and converting tolars to euros, and how to get around - from motoring on the German autobahns to ferry rides across Lake Constance.
Marlor Press
Going Abroad
Paperback - 136 pages
2nd Rev (September 2000)
 
Lonely Planet
Mediterranean
Europe
Paperback - 992 pages
5th Ed (26 January, 2001)
Detailed travel information for Albania, Andorra, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey and Yugoslavia. This guide is designed for independent travellers of all budgets.
Globe Pequot Press
Take your kids
to Europe
Paperback - 351 pages
4th Ed (16 December, 1999)
Offers practical advice on traveling with children, including trip planning, accommodations, restaurants, sightseeing, and language skills.
Lonely Planet
Read This First: Europe
Paperback - 430 pages
1st Ed (30 June, 2000)
With profiles of every country in Europe, this guide provides tips, anecdotes, and advice on all aspects of travelling from budgeting to bargaining, plus sections on broader issues such as eco-tourism, local politics and lists of embassies, voluntary work associations and travel offices.
BRADT Travel Guides
Your Child's
Health Abroad
Paperback - 208 pages
(24 April, 1998)
Advises parents who are traveling with children on preventative care, diagnos and treatment of illnesses, and first aid.
Lonely Planet
Europe Phrasebook
Paperback - 544 pages
3rd Ed (9 February, 2001)
This travel phrasebook covers Basque, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Maltese, Portuguese, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish and Welsh.
Healing Arts Press
The Traveler's Natural Medicine Kit
Paperback - 176 pages
(7 June, 2001)
 
Lonely Planet
Central Europe
Phrasebook
Paperback - 384 pages
2nd Ed (23 February, 2001)
This phrasebook offers updated sections on German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Slovene. Each language includes sections on getting around, food, and accommodation.
John Wiley and Sons
The Global Etiquette Guide to Europe
Paperback - 390 pages
(May 2000)
Despite our cultural ties with the rest of Europe, it is still too easy for the uninformed traveller to commit a serious breach of etiquette, or worse, when visiting other countries within Europe. Now, global etiquette guru Dean Foster helps both business and leisure travellers avoid committing the types of gaffes, faux pas and social no-nos that can spoil a vacation or ruin a business deal when travelling in any of the major countries of Western Europe, Mediterranean Europe, Central Europe and Eastern Europe.
Lonely Planet
Travel with Children
Paperback - 156 pages
3rd Ed (17 August, 1995)
Aimed particularly at those travelling with children between the ages of 3 months and 14 years, this book features practical advice for all parents, no matter what the budget. Topics include pre-departure preparations and health and travelling while pregnant.
Rough Guide
Travel Health
Paperback - 576 pages
(25 January, 2001)
 
Vacation Work Publications
Travellers Survival Kit: Western Europe
Paperback - 351 pages
(20 March, 1995)
The right information can change a trip abroad from a disaster to a triumph. This book is full of the latest inside tips for the tourist and business traveller alike on how to survive a trip to Europe in 1995 in style, covering how to travel and where to stay and eat cheaply. It includes advice on what to do if things go wrong, and how to make sure they don't.
Mountaineers Books
The Pocket Doctor
Paperback - 96 pages
3rd (March 1999)
 
DK Eyewitness
Great Places to Stay
in Europe
Paperback - 432 pages
(14 January, 2000)
Rather than tackling European travel in its entirety, the guide focuses on one aspect of Europe: lodging. Luckily Europe is rich in its diversity of fine lodgings for travellers, and the guide's listings of hotels, bed and breakfasts, farmhouses, chalets, pousadas and country inns makes for entertaining and inspiring reading for the prospective traveller.
Rough Guide
First Time Europe
Paperback - 256 pages
4th Ed (30 November, 2000)
An easy-to-read planner for first time travellers in Europe. It covers everything from where, when and what to take, how to go, where to stay, and safety tips. It also includes a resource guide for getting visas, rail passes, and how to contact national tourist offices and airlines.
Rolling Homes Press
Traveler's guide to
European Camping
Paperback - 443 pages
2nd Ed (1 June, 1999)
 
Fodor's Travel Publications
How to Pack
Paperback - 160 pages
(December 1997)
Written for all travellers, whether taking a business trip or a family holiday, this is a guide as to what and how to pack so that you can travel light but still have everything you need. It covers all forms of transport and baggage - from plane to road, rucksack to trunk.

 

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