Best-selling Tolkien expert Brian Sibley (The Lord of theRings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy and The Lord of the RingsOfficial Movie Guide) presents a slipcased collection of fourfull-color, large-format maps of Tolkien's imaginary realmillustrated by John Howe, a conceptual designer for the blockbusterfilms directed by Peter Jackson. The set includes a hardcover bookdescribing in detail the importance and evolution of geographywithin Tolkien's epic fiction and four color maps presented withminimal folds, including two (Beleriand and Numenor) never beforepublished in this country.

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Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe bycollecting the best writing on travel from the books that shapedhim, as a reader and a traveler. Part philosophical guide, partmiscellany, part reminiscence, The Tao of Travel enumerates “TheContents of Some Travelers’ Bags” and exposes “Writers Who Wroteabout Places They Never Visited”; tracks extreme journeys in“Travel as an Ordeal” and highlights some of “Travelers’ FavoritePlaces.” Excerpts from the best of Theroux’s own work areinterspersed with selections from travelers both familiar andunexpected: Vladimir Nabokov J.R.R. Tolkien Samuel Johnson Eudora Welty Evelyn Waugh Isak Dinesen Charles Dickens James Baldwin Henry David Thoreau Pico Iyer Mark Twain Anton Chekhov Bruce Chatwin John McPhee Freya Stark Peter Matthiessen Graham Greene Ernest Hemingway The Tao of Travel is a unique tribute to the pleasures and painsof travel in its golden age.

Morocco is sensory overload at its most intoxicating, from thescents and sounds of the medinas of Fes and Marrakesh to theastonishing Saharan landscapes. Roam its labyrinthine souqs,scrunch your toes into the sunset sand and let our guide take youto the cafes and hammams only the locals know. This newly revised guide has an extended planning informationsection featuring recommendations by month, region, and interestand a pull-out sheet map. This guidebook has been fully updated! * Intuitive layout and new text styles make it easier to read,scan and find information at a glance * New visual design and structure improves navigation withoutsacrificing depth or quality * Expanded planning section helps travellers plan by time,season, interest or region * New map design improves map legibility for easy navigation

Hall relates his encounters with Serbs, Croats, and Muslims,"real people, likeable people" who are now overcome with suspicionsand anxiety about one another. Hall takes the standard explanationsand inverts our perceptions of the country. What emerges is aportrait of a country that possibly should never have been, and isin the process of insuring that it will never be again.

MustSees Paris, a new addition to the MustSees series, hitsthe city's highlights for a 24-hour visit, a weekend or longer.Visit iconic sights like the Eiffel Tower, Sacre Coeur and NotreDame. Dive into art at the Louvre, Pompidou Centre, Musee d'Orsayand the new Centquatre. Stroll the Champs-Elysees or Ile St-Louis,and then have dinner in the Marais. This pocket-size guide helpsyou do it all with detailed maps, recommended hotels and MustSeesstar-rating system.

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Discover Barcelona Leave your preconceptions about architecture behind at thecurving, coral-like facade of Gaudí’s whimsical Casa Batlló Send your tastebuds to seafood heaven with a plate of fideuà(Catalan noodles) at a beachfront restaurant near PortOlímpic Join in the chants of ‘Bar?a, Bar?a, Baaar?a!’ at Camp Nou, thelegendary home ground of the Barcelona football club Witness the eccentric heights of Catalan creativity in themuseums and galleries of Montju?c, Barcelona’s cultural hub In This Guide One local author, more than 500 hours of research, more than 200eating and drinking recommendations, and untold morsels of tapassampled Color sections on the top Barcelona experiences, and awesomearchitecture from Gaudí to the Torre Agbar Content updated daily - visit www.lonelyplanet.com/spain/barcelona for up-to-the-minutereviews, updates and traveler insights

How will you see Norway? From behind a sled pulled by huskies?From the top of a glacier? Over an aquavit at Ibsen's old table inOslo's Grand Cafe? The exquisitely clear air of Lofoten Islands,colourful wooden houses, remote Svalbard...so much to see. And somany ways to see it. This guidebook has been fully updated! * Intuitive layout and new text styles make it easier to read,scan and find information at a glance * New visual design and structure improves navigation withoutsacrificing depth or quality * Expanded planning section helps travellers plan by time,season, interest or region * New map design improves map legibilty for easy navigation

The Milan Encounter guide gives you twice the city in half thetime. This pared-down number is ideal for quick trips - it's lessaccommodation, more neighbourhood highlights and the best of localknowledge. * Interviews with locals keep travelers in the know on thefull Milan experience * Full of shopping tips to ensure travelers know where to go forthe latest trends * Chapter for each neighborhood highlighting the best sights,shops, eating, drinking, and entertainment * Pocket-sized guide and pull-out map for handy reference

Once a nation of seafarers and explorers, Portugal can stilltake you on quite a ride. Time-warp your way around medievalcastles, picture-perfect villages and Roman-era vineyards, then getthoroughly modern in laidback cities like Lisbon and Porto, withtheir narrow lanes full of book stores and boutiques and theireclectic mix of restaurants, bars and nightclubs. (Please note:Does not include coverage of the Azores or Madeira). The new "Eat Streets" (the best neighborhoods and streets forsnacking), 'If You Like" and "Region at a Glance" sections thisguide is sure to steer travellers to their ideal Portugueseexperience. This guidebook has been fully updated! * Intuitive layout and new text styles make it easier to read, scanand find information at a glance * New visual design and structure improves navigation withoutsacrificing depth or quality * Expanded planning section helps travellers plan by time, season,interest or region * New map design improves map legibility for easy navigation

Offers coverage of Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Bavaria,Baden-Wurttemburg, Rhinel and Hesse, Bremen and Hamburg. This titleincludes fill-colour sections that present the traditional imagesof Germany.

Shake off the nine to five and get where the living iseasy. Easy like sunny surf beaches, zipping around on motorbikes,Mandi Lulur massages and drinking in the sleek bars of Seminyak.Can't you just feel the water at your toes? Not just cheap andconvenient, these two islands offer so much more. Grab thisinformative guide for a tour around Bali Lombok, with theirfiery cuisine, lush jungle and brilliant beaches. Yes, everyone'sbeen to Bali, now find out why. This guidebook has been fully updated! * Includes a "What's new" section for return visitors and hasexpanded coverage of the Gili Islands and other emerging hotspots. * Intuitive layout and new text styles make it easier to read,scan and find information at a glance * New visual design and structure improves navigation withoutsacrificing depth or quality * Expanded planning section helps travellers plan by time,season, interest or region * New map design improves map legibilty for easy navigation