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A guide book to the 1915 Panama–California Exposition An assortment of guide books in Japan. A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [1] It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities.
This list otherwise contains several non English editions. The list appears to avoid mentioning war years tourist guides about occupied territories which may have been published in the 1940s. The first post-World War II old-style Baedekers in English were published in the 1950s by Karl Baedeker Verlag, Hamburg, after the firm was revived in 1948.
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Blue Guide Rome and Environs, by Alta Macadam, was released in 1971. Her Italy titles thereafter become some of the best selling Blue Guides and included Sicily (1975), Northern Italy (1978), Florence (1982), Venice (1980), Tuscany (1993), and Umbria (1993), all frequently updated and re-issued.
Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book for Travellers in Belgium, 1856 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1891 Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland, 1882 Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of London .
Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba (2001) – winner of the Lowell Thomas Award 'Travel Book of the Year' [7] and North American Travel Journalist Association 'Grand Prize' [8] Dennison Berwick (born 1956) Savages, The Life and Killing of the Yanomami (1992) Amazon (1990) A Walk Along the Ganges (1986) Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018)
Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook , produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond.
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.