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Discover Monocle’s favourite places to stay, eat, shop and visit across France. Following Spain: The Monocle Handbook is the third title in premium series of country-focused guides. France: The Monocle Handbook presents our favourite spots across this sunny nation, from Paris and Marseille to Basque Country and Corsica.

Discover innovative retailers and charming hotels, as well as leading museums and galleries – and, of course, a vineyard or two. We also introduce the smartest areas to move to, plus advice from the plucky entrepreneurs who’ve already set up shop. It’s time to see this varied country afresh.

• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Innbundet
• Antall sider: 224
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780500978696

An enchanting and delectable journey to the shimmering waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea, via plates of pasta, baked fish and glasses of peach-laced white wine - from the author of A House Party in Tuscany

Welcome to the Tyrrhenian Sea, home to la dolce vita, sun-drenched islands and seaside towns where even the simplest trattoria has an effortless glamour.

Freytag & Berndt hiking maps are the perfect companion for hiking, mountaineering and ski touring, thanks to detailed digital cartography and precise yardsticks. They are regularly revised and contain updated information on hiking trails, cycling and mountain biking trails, huts, natural monuments, cultural attractions and leisure facilities.

The enclosed information booklet contains a selection of the best hiking trails, cycle paths and mountain bike trails as well as a short description of the individual municipalities with their leisure time activities. (Language: German)

Leisure information, hiking and long-distance hiking trails, mountain biking and cycling tours, local register with zip codes, GPS-capable, via ferrata, ski route, cross-country route, Nordic walking trail;

• Region: Wechsel, Mürztal, Joglland, Wiener Alpenbogen; Special hiking theme trails: Gloggnitzer Rundwanderweg, Ghega-Semmeringbahn, Alpannonia, Wiener Alpenbogen, Wechselbergland Höhenweg, Gebirgsjäger Gedächtnisweg, Arzberg-Rundwanderweg;
• Special cycling and mountain bike tours: Mürztalradweg, Feistritztalradweg, Semmering-Radweg, Joglland-Radlroas, Mountainbike-Runde Langenwang - Hönigsberg - Malleisten Alm - Feistritz, Fischbacher Alpen Tour
   
• Publisert: 2025
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Vannfast papir
• Målestokk: 1:50 000

This adventure guide is dedicated to the most important holiday region in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Sauerland. Did you know that half of the Sauerland is covered in forest? That there are almost three thousand mountain peaks here that can be hiked and that more than ten dams and lakes invite you to swim and do water sports? Other highlights are marked with yellow flags in the map section and are described informatively on the back. Amusement parks in Kirchhundem and Bestwig and the stalactite cave near Attendorn are just some of the attractions.

• Publisert: 2025
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Vannfast papir
• Målestokk: 1:130 000

Map sheet number OL19 in the OS Explorer series covers Appleby-in-Westmorland, the Howgill Fells, Sedbergh, Upper Eden Valley and Kirkby Stephen.

Highlights of the area include: Yorkshire Dales National park, North Pennines, Pennine Way, River Eden, Great Shunner Fell and Hardraw.

• Publisert: 2016
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Vannfast papir
• Målestokk: 1:25 000

From a distance, Saudi Arabia may seem a subdued, or even dull place; but for those who take a closer look it emerges as a fascinating country, not necessarily because of its political and economic importance, but because of its people. Reticent perhaps but, on closer acquaintance, charming and warm, the Saudis form a far less monolithic society than one might expect. Divided by region, creed, and background but united in Islam, insular yet forever traveling abroad, and living with a foreign contingent that makes up nearly one-third of the population: the list goes on.

So what do Saudis have in common beyond their national dress? Culture Smart! Saudi Arabia will help you navigate the swirling waters of this important and fast-changing country. Social, cultural, and business life is demystified in concise chapters, while sections on the values, traditions, and attitudes that prevail will help you find your way through the new and unexpected situations that you are likely to encounter.

• Publisert: Juni 2024
• Antall sider: 200
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781787023543

Den prisbelønte forfatteren Torbjørn Færøviks mektige fortelling tar oss igjennom Kinas historie. Kina er et skattkammer for historieinteresserte. Landets skrevne historie er mer enn fire tusen år gammel, og det gjøres til stadighet nye interessante arkeologiske funn. I formann Maos styretid fra 1949 til 1976 var Kina et nokså lukket land. De siste tiårene har det åpnet seg mer. Millioner av turister har opplevd keiserpalasset i Beijing, vandret på Den kinesiske muren eller beundret den underjordiske terrakottahæren til landets første keiser, den sagnomsuste Qin Shihuang. Turisters inntrykk blir ofte flyktige, og mange forstår ikke betydningen av det de ser. Derfor er det historiske bakteppet så viktig.

• Forfatter: Torbjørn Færøvik
• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Norsk bokmål
• Antall sider: 622
• ISBN: 9788202839383

St. Francis of Assisi, beloved patron saint of animals and nature, walked extensively through the hills of central Italy throughout his life. Assisi and Rome have beckoned pilgrims for hundreds of years.

Walk in their footsteps along the Way of St. Francis and enter into this renowned story. This Way of St.

Francis guidebook contains all the information you need to walk the 334 mile (537 km) route bewteen Florence, Assisi and Rome, in addition to 210km of alternative and side routes. This books contains detailed topographical maps of each days walk, digital maps and GPS online.

• Forfatter: Matthew Harms
• Publisert: Januar 2023
  
• Antall sider: 224
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781947474222

Discover the origins, traditions, and use of the everyday foods served on our plates, from salt to sushi and rice to ravioli. A true celebration of food in all its forms, The Food Book follows the human quest for sustenance through the stories of individual ingredients. It examines our millennia-long relationship with nearly 200 foods - from nuts and seeds to noodles and meat - with the help of sumptuous illustrations and tales from all over the world.

Food is the cornerstone of daily life, culture, and even religion. Staples like bread, beans, and cereal crops are part of our culinary history and are used in many different ways around the world. This fascinating reference covers: All food groups, including nuts and grains, fruit and vegetables, meat and fish, herbs and spices.

Information on every aspect of food’s origin, history, and place in world cuisine. Photographs that showcase culturally and historically interesting foods and how they are used. Packed with glorious images to create a feast for the eyes and stories that surprise and enthral, this is the ultimate feast for foodies, a global smorgasbord packed with unforgettable tales and eye-opening facts.

• Publisert: August 2024
• Innbinding: Innbundet
• Språk: Engelsk
• Antall sider: 392
• ISBN: 9780241666630

Har du opplevd stjernemylderet over Langsuas vinterkledde vidder, sett solnedgangen glitre i sommerlig hav eller kjent suget i magen på høstferie i Jotunheimen? Drømmer du om villmarkspåske i Femundsmarka, å styre ditt eget hundesledespann, eller kanskje du har lyst til å lære deg turskøyting?

Dette er en bok om natur og friluftsliv til fire årstider. Du får over 100 tips til nærturer, langturer, hytter og aktiviteter. Her er inspirasjon til hverdagsgleder og feriesteder, både når perleugla synger i februar og løvet spretter i mai, men også når bølgene glefser og verden er tung av tåke.

Med denne boka vil lære noe nytt om naturen gjennom de ulike årstidene, finne større glede i turene dine og oppdage flere gode grunner til å tilbringe Året Ute!

• Forfatter: Hege og Stine Schultz Heireng
• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Innbundet
• Språk: Norsk bokmål
• ISBN: 9788205606289

This mini pocket Venice travel guidebook is perfect for travellers looking for essential information about Venice. It provides details on key places and main attractions, along with a selection of itineraries, recommendations for restaurants and top tips on how to make the most of your trip. It's sustainably printed to ensure environmental responsibility.

• Publisert: Mar 2025
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Antall sider: 144
• Språk: Engelsk
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9781835291795

Freytag & Berndt turkart er den perfekte følgesvennen for fotturer, fjellklatring og skiturer, takket være detaljert digital kartografi og presise målestokker. De revideres jevnlig og inneholder oppdatert informasjon om turstier, sykkel- og terrengsykkelstier, hytter, naturminner, kulturattraksjoner og fritidstilbud.

Det vedlagte informasjonsheftet inneholder et utvalg av de beste turstiene, sykkelstiene og terrengsykkelløypene samt en kort beskrivelse av de enkelte kommunene med sine fritidsaktiviteter. (Språk: tysk)

Fritidsinformasjon, tur- og langturer, terrengsykling og sykkelturer, lokalt register med postnummer, GPS-kompatible, via ferrata, skiløype, langrennsrute, stavgangsti.

Region: Tannheimdalen, Tannheimerfjellene, Lechtal, Tyrolean Lech Nature Park, Außerfern, Tyrol, Bayern, Tyskland

Spesielle turstier:
Europeisk langdistanse tursti nr. 4, Via Alpina, Lechweg, bayerske kongeslott

Spesielle sykkel- og terrengsykkelturer:
Via Claudia Augusta, Bike Trail Tyrol, Lech sykkelsti (Lechtalradweg), Almtour, Vilser Alm

Publisert: 2024
Innbinding: falset
Material: papir
Målestokk: 1:35000

Map sheet number OL30 in the OS Explorer map series is the map of choice for people visiting the Northern and Central areas of the Yorkshire Dales, including Wensleydale & Swaledale. There is wealth of scenery in this part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Highlights of the area include: The valleys of Swaledale and Arkengarthdale, Aysgarth Falls, Hawes, and the River Wharfe.

From Great Black Hill to Ramsgill, the OS Explorer map of the North and Central Yorkshire Dales pinpoints every house and hill, pub and place of interest, making it the perfect fold-up companion for visitors and locals alike.

Easy to understand, whether you’re an occasional ambler or a highly-experienced hill walker, follow the Dales Way recreational path or the Pennine Way national trail, and soak up some of the most spectacular scenery in the North of England.

With their legacy of ancient Norse culture, explore the Swaledale and Arkengarthdale valleys. Get a real sense of the area’s history, climbing mountains with good Viking names, like Great Shunner Fell and Rogan’s Seat.

Aysgarth Falls – with scenery that inspired Ruskin, Turner and Wordsworth – is a natural wonder not to be missed. While the River Swale, the fastest flowing river in England offers opportunities for some serious canoeing.

Follow your map to the spectacular triple flight of falls carved out by the River Ure. A product of the Ice Age, the falls boast a dramatic 30ft drop over limestone steps.

Whether you fancy a spot of fishing on the River Wharfedale or cheese tasting at the Wensleydale Creamery, you’ll get so much more out of your excursion in the North and Central Yorkshire Dales with the OS Explorer OL30 safely stowed in your knapsack. Add a copy to your basket today, and start planning your next day out in the Dales.

• Publisert: 2016
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Papir
• Målestokk: 1:25 000

Often called the ‘Heart of the Midlands’, Nottingham has given the world Robin Hood, Raleigh bikes, John Player cigarettes and Boots the chemists - and it was here that Ibuprofen first saw the light of a petri dish to the benefit of a million hangovers. As if that wasn’t enough, Alan Sillitoe and D. H.

Lawrence went to school here, Lord Byron’s ancestral pile is just on the city’s outskirts, and it was here that King Charles I raised his battle standard at the start of the English Civil War – though precious few rallied to the cause. Local heroes include the cantankerous Brian Clough, who led Nottingham Forest Football Club to a pair of European Cups, the fast bowler Harold Larwood, who famously bowled Donald Bradman during the Body Line Ashes of the 1930s, and the charismatic William Booth, who founded a worldwide movement, the Salvation Army. Despite all this and much more, Nottingham wears its charms lightly, avoiding the tourist crowds, but this fascinating city has much to offer – and we have selected 111 Places to intrigue, amuse and illuminate.   

• Publisert: Okt 2024
• Utgave: 2. utgave
  
• Antall sider: 240
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9783740822613

This compact, pocket-sized Madrid travel guidebook is ideal for travellers on shorter trips, who want to make sure they experience the destination's highlights and really get a flavour of the place. It includes ready-made walking and driving itineraries, with detailed directions, that allow you to organise your visit to Madrid without losing time planning. It's sustainably printed to ensure environmental responsibility.

• Publisert: Feb. 2025
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Antall sider: 144
  
• Språk: Engelsk
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9781835291726

Langtang, Tamang Heritage Trail - Gosainkund and Helambu

detailed trails, walking distances, altitudes - also panoramic view of Langtang & Ganesh Himal Range

• Publisert: Nov. 2022
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Papir
• Målestokk: 1:50 000

Meeting Turkish farmers and workers, Syrian refugees and Russians avoiding conscription, the journey brings to life a living, breathing, cultural tapestry of the place where Asia, Africa and Europe converge.

The result is a love letter to a country and its neighbours - one that offers a clear-eyed view of Turkiye and its place in a changing world. Yet the route is also marked by tragedy, as Sayarer cycles along a major fault line just months before one of the most devastating earthquakes in the region's modern history.

Always engaged with the big historical and political questions that inform so much of his writing, Sayarer uses his bicycle and the roadside encounters it allows to bring everything back to the human level. At the end of his journey we are left with a deeper understanding of the country, as well as the essential and universal nature of political power, both in Turkiye and closer to home.

• Forfatter: Julian Emre Sayarer
• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Heftet
  
• Språk: Engelsk
• Antall sider: 256
• ISBN: 9781529429961

A locally researched and produced cycling and hiking map in the border triangle Albania - Montenegro - Kosovo. Routes described in detail invite you to actively explore this largely untouched area. Places of intrest are described and illustrated on the reverse. In addition to two overview maps of the Albanian Alps, there are numerous other helpful facts about the country.

• Publisert: 2016
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Papir
• Målestokk: 1:80 000

One of the greatest pieces of travel and nature writing ever written. Go with Peter Matthiessen all the way to Dolpo, a Tibetan plateau in the high Himalayas. This is the account of a journey to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo in the high Himalayas.

In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to Dolpo, as part of an expedition to study wild blue sheep. It was an arduous, sometimes dangerous, physical endeavour: exertion, blisters, blizzards, endless negotiations with sherpas, quaking cold. But it was also a 'journey of the heart' - amongst the beauty and indifference of the mountains Matthiessen was searching for solace.

• Forfatter: Peter Matthiessen
• Publisert: 1998
• Antall sider: 312
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780099771111
  
  

One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk... When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul, she uncovers a place that defies her expectations. Her wanderings with other Kabulis reveal a fragile city in a state of flux: stricken by near-constant war, but flickering with the promise of peace; governed by age-old codes but experimenting with new modes of living.

Her walks take her to the unvisited tombs of the dead, and to the land of the living - like the booksellers, archaeologists, film-makers and entrepreneurs who are remaking this 3,000-year-old city. And as NATO troops begin to withdraw from the country, Khan watches the cycle of transformation begin again. 

• Forfatter: Taran N. Khan
• Publisert: 2021
• Antall sider: 272
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781784708023
  

Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and death as Europe never could. He also describes the beauty of the Mekong landscape - the villages along its banks, surrounded by mangoes, bananas and coconuts, and the exquisite women, the odours of opium, and the region's other face - that of violence and corruption.

Forfattere: Jon Swain
Publisert: 1996
ISBN: 9780749320201
Sider nr: 304

Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. 

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place. 

• Forfatter: Graham Greene
• Publisert: 2001
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780099286080

Bruce Chatwin sets off on a journey through South America in this wistful classic travel book with its unique, roving structure and beautiful descriptions, In Patagonia offers an original take on the age-old adventure tale. Bruce Chatwin’s journey to a remote country in search of a strange beast brings along with it a cast of fascinating characters. Their stories delay him on the road, but will have you tearing through to the book’s end.

• Forfatter: Bruce Chatwin
• Publisert: 1998
• Antall sider: 260
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780099769514
  

A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev. SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANDFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020

With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides – Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others – Wheeler travels the length and breadth of Russia to make connections between then and now. On the Trans-Siberian railway, at sail on the Black Sea, or while watching television with her hosts in Soviet apartment blocks, Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news – a Russia of humanity and daily struggles.

At a time of deteriorating relations between Russia and the West, Wheeler gives a voice to the 'ordinary' people of Russia and discovers how the writers of the past continue to represent their country today.

• Forfatter: Sara Wheeler
• Publisert: 2020
  
• Antall sider: 304
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780099584131 

A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history.

• Forfatter: Arthur Golden
• Publisert: 1998
  
• Antall sider: 512
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780099771517

A guidebook to walking the Fife Pilgrim Way from Culross on the Firth of Forth through the heart of the ancient Kingdom of Fife to St Andrews on Scotland's North Sea coast. Covering 103km (64 miles), this fully waymarked trail takes around 6 days to hike.

The route is described from south to north in 6 stages between 14 and 16km (8-10 miles) in length. An alternative first stage begins at North Queensferry, joining the main route at Dunfermline.

• Forfattere: Shana Lee Hirsch og Victoria Hunter
• Publisert: 2024
• Antall sider: 112
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781786312242

Would you like to explore the best of Exmoor? This guidebook covers 15 of the area's best short walks (between 4.5 and 11km, all under three hours) including Dunkery Beacon, Valley of Rocks, Allerford, Selworthy, Tarr Steps, Great Hangman, Dunster and Malmsmead.

• Forfatter: Steve Davison
• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781786311900