徒步东京 英文原版 Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods 内容简介 This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir. Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad, and visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks, but a grittier, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activities that unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. Here you find business men and women, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, policemen, and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. A
Gaze at the gargoyles and ponder Quasimodo s fate as you laze in the park behind Notre Dame. Fly off-piste down glaciers near Chamonix on the notorious Vallée Blanche descent. Get lost in secret passageways beneath Lyon and discover why silk weavers toiled to build them. Spit a mouthful of Burgundy without causing offence at Beaune s cole des Vins de Bourgogne. Six authors, 23 combined years living in France, 196 days of in-country research, 184 maps. You asked for it, we researched it more value accommodation in this edition Belle le Romance, Marseille short-break, Tour de France trail take inspiration from our itineraries and explore France your own way. Content updated daily: visit lonelyplanet.com for up-to-the-minute reviews and traveler suggestions.
Focus on outdoor activities and water sports; Has a two-pg 3Dillustration of The Palace of Knossos; The lifting of cabotagerestrictions has led to an inc. in the number of internationalcruise arrivals ; Also targets the significant short-haul market byincl. extra info for drivers, incl. tour routes anddriving-distance charts in every chapter
Lonely Planet's 5th edition of Southern Africa brings you themost extensive coverage of the region. Go on safari in KrugerNational Park, taste your way through South Africa's Winelands,glide in a traditional dugout canoe down the Okavango Delta,snorkel in Lake Malawi and be amazed by one of the seven naturalwonders of the world, Victoria Falls. Lonely Planet guides arewritten by experts who get to the heart of every destination theyvisit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate,practical and honest advice, designed to give you the informationyou need to make the most of your trip. In This Guide: Detaileditineraries take you from laid-back coasts to unforgettablesafaris. Dedicated music chapter gets you into the African groove.Green Index highlights the best ecofriendly options.
Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer’s Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do. More annually updated guides than any other series 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and suggested itineraries Dozens of detailed maps in an easy-to-read, two-color design You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go--they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us! Comp
Ever since Ponce de Leon, Florida has cast a sensual spellover travelers, and its surreal landscape, heavenly beaches andprehistoric beasts still quicken the pulse and inflame theimagination. Jeff Campbell, Lonely Planet Writer Our Promise You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planetauthors visit the places we write about, each and every edition. Wenever accept freebies for positive coverage so you can rely on usto tell it like we see it. Inside This Book 4 authors 11 weeks of research 27 stone crabs eaten 1 Magic Kingdom Inspirational photos Expanded Walt Disney World coverage Pull-out City Map of Miami Easy-to-read layout Comprehensive planning tools At-a-glance practical info
This bumper photographic portrait of Rome brings together hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through to today to explore the extraordinary history, beauty, and art of this incomparable cultural capital. From sepia and black and white to color, these outstanding images dating from the 1840s to the present day allow us ― through the eyes of such photographers as Giacomo Caneva, Pompeo Molins, Giuseppe Primoli, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Carlo Bavagnoli, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Pasquale De Antonis, Peter Lindbergh, Slim Aarons, and William Klein ― to discover Rome in its many compelling guises: as the center of the Roman Empire, as one of the cradles of the Renaissance, as a favorite destination for travelers and a rich patchwork of varied neighborhoods, as the seat of the Roman Catholic Church, a stage for politics, and as the perfect backdrop for film and fashion shoots. Reaching back into illustrious archives, some of the book s early images offer us a privileged Grand Tour glimpse of some of Rome s most
What Will Your Fez Encounter Be? Wandering along Talaa Kebira in the crisp morning air as themedina comes to life Listening to an orchestra of coppersmiths hammering their waresin Seffarine Square Escaping the midday heat in the leafy courtyard of a traditionalriad Losing your heart to a pair of leather slippers made by anartisan Submitting to an invigorating scrub and massage in a tiled andsteamy hammam Watching the light fade on the ivory walls of Fez from a rooftopterrace bar Discover Twice The City In Half The Time Full-colour pull-out map to help you navigate the medina withease Our resident author recommends the best sights, restaurants,shops and entertainment Unique itineraries and highlights to make the most of a shortbreak in "the new Marrakesh" Local experts reveal Fez's secrets: from Si Mohammed el-Amrani onmedicinal herbs to Dr. Armand Guigui on Jewish heritage in theMellah Who We Are At Lonely Planet, we see our
For nearly twenty years, Suzy Gershman has been leading savvy shoppers to the world's best finds. Now Born to Shop Italy is easier to use and packed with more up-to-datelistings than ever before. It includes the best of the shopping scenes, from trendsetting boutiques in Milan and Rome to top factory outlets, colorful markets, and more; excellent values, from designer shoes and handbags to Venetian glass and lace; great gift ideas; and the best airfare, hotel, and dining values. 作者简介: Suzy Gershman is a journalist, author, and global-shopping goddess who has worked in the fashion and fiber industry for more than 25 years. Her essays on retailing have been used by the Harvard School of Business; her reportage on travel and retail has appeared in Travel + Leisure, Travel Holiday, Travel Weekly, and most of the major women’s magazines. She is translated into French for Condé Nast’s Air France Madame magazine and writes a shopping column about cruise destinations for Porthole Magazine.
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.
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.