Presents the 1,000 most astonishing destinations in the world and brings them to life in lively, evocative prose that reveals why the place is so wonderful. This title offers a greater variety of hotel and restaurant choices, including more budget-conscious options.
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum to Jack the Ripper guided tours, 'dark tourism' is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians expose a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture in which many of us partake.
Award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar reveals the greatest wonders of the world and the insider secrets on how to see them at their awe-inspiring best.
52 Wildlife Weekends Guide - Travel information and tips for 52 suggested British wildlife breaks including birdwatching and tracking advice, activities and walks. Also features local highlights and suggested itineraries in England, Scotland and Wales, transportation, when to go, accommodation and restaurant tips, maps and species identification.
This revised and updated edition reveals the vibrant, colourful past of Bangladesh, chiefly known in the West through media images of poverty, underdevelopment and disasters. Based on the latest academic research and richly illustrated, this is a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia.
'The great affair is to move: to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. This book celebrates the history of walking for leisure and pleasure.
The long and fascinating history of Japan's modern capital spans from the first forest clearances on the vast Kanto plain, through the wars and intrigues of the samurai era, and up to the preparations for the 2020 Olympics.
Are you dreaming of leaving behind the 9 to 5 and floating off into the sunset, but not sure where to start? Constantly searching for dream holidays but never getting anywhere near them?
From the disused stations on the Underground to the immense, ornate Victorian sewers and waterworks, from crumbling but beautiful Art Deco cinemas and empty swimming pools to ruined mansions and overgrown cemeteries, Abandoned London celebrates haunting relics from a time gone by.
The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes. 'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world. Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after the US and Yemen. 54 per cent of Icelanders believe in elves. Norway is the richest country on earth. This book deals with Nordic countries.