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A guide to the General Government, the Polish land occupied by Germany,was published in 1943. Source: Marian Mark Drozdowski, 'The history of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Light of the Reports of Ludwig Fischer' Polin, Vol 3, 1988, 189-199, cited in T. Snyder 'Blood Lands' Vintage, 2010, p145.
The first Let's Go guide was a 25-page mimeographed pamphlet put together by 18-year-old Harvard freshman Oliver Koppell and handed out on student charter flights to Europe. In 1996, Let's Go launched its website, Letsgo.com , while publishing 22 titles and a new line of mini map guides.
The Blue Guides are a series of detailed and authoritative travel guidebooks focused on art, architecture, and (where relevant) archaeology along with the history and context necessary to understand them. A modicum of practical travel information, with recommended restaurants and hotels, is also generally included.
Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa.
Category: Travel guide books. ... Highways and Byways (series of regional guides) Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe; I. Illustrated Europe; In Your Pocket City Guides;
1827−1859: Karl Baedeker (1801–1859) descended from a long line of printers, booksellers and publishers from Essen, Germany.He was the eldest of ten children of Gottschalk Diederich Bädeker (1778–1841), who had inherited the publishing house founded by his own father, Zacharias Gerhard Bädeker (1750–1800).
Ward Lock travel guides or Red Guides (1870s–1970s) were tourist guide books to the British Isles and continental Europe published by Ward, Lock & Co. of London. [1] The firm proclaimed them "amusing and readable" and the "cheapest and most trustworthy guides." [2] To other readers the books were promotional and "rarely critical."
The front cover of the 1972 first US edition of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe. The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe (ISBN 0-8128-1446-0) was a travel guide, by "Australian expatriate" [1] Ken Welsh, and first published in 1971 in the UK by Pan Books. A first American edition was published in 1972 by Stein and Day, New York, NY, US.