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At first sight, modern-day Egypt is an unruly and chaotic place: a cacophony of sounds, an overload of smells, and a swirling visual feast. Ancient church domes and medieval minarets share the same space with fast-food chains and chic air-conditioned cafe s. Egyptian society has undergone dramatic changes in recent years, yet tradition and deeply conservative views prevail.

Culture Smart! Egypt explores the codes and paradoxes of Egyptian life, outlines the country' s history, and shows the forces that have shaped its sensibility. It explains the key values and attitudes, guides you through local customs and traditions, and opens a window into the private lives of Egyptians and offers advice on how to get a long with them and how to be a good guest.

• Publisert: Juni 2024
• Antall sider: 200
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
  
• ISBN: 9781787023451

Vandrekart/sykkelkart til Luxembourg. Sett med to kart.

• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Papir
• Målestokk: 1:50 000

A blend of travel writing, memoir, history and current affairs that tells the story of Sri Lanka. A perfect read for first-time visitors, Sri Lankans abroad or at home, or anyone looking to deepen their understanding of one of the world’s most fascinating and paradoxical countries. Razeen Sally was born to a Sri Lankan Muslim father and a Welsh mother.

Just before his teens, a political conflict tore his family apart and he left Sri Lanka, barely going back for thirty years. When he finally returned ‘home’, he spent much of the next decade crisscrossing the island, trying to understand this paradoxical place. Blessed with nature’s bounty and an easy, pleasure-loving people, it was nevertheless scarred by ethnic conflict and the violence of civil war.

As a native and a tourist, Sally makes an ideal guide to Sri Lanka’s past and present. He won’t tell you which restaurant has the best reviews or the price of a hotel room. Instead, he will accompany you like a learned friend, sharing his journeys, pointing out the unmissable gems beyond the obvious spots, and unpacking the nation’s culture and history.

Insightful, intimate and moving, Return to Sri Lanka is an indispensable book, whether you're already familiar with this spectacular country, or planning your first visit.

• Publisert: Januar 2025
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• Antall sider: 431
• ISBN: 9781398544291

This detailed road map of Emilia-Romagna - Bologna is very suitable for planning and traveling around the country. The road network is well represented, both the main roads, provincial and local roads. Road numbers are also clearly stated.

Distances between places are marked on the map in kilometers, and gas stations are also marked in important places. Shadow shows the relief and sometimes some points with the actual height. Province borders, national parks and reserves are easy to find.

Symbols indicate the location of tourist sites, monuments, historically important places and viewpoints. In certain places you can find hotels and campsites, airports, train connections and ports.

• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Papir
• Målestokk: 1:150 000

This compact, pocket-sized Croatia 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 Croatia without losing time planning. It's sustainably printed to ensure environmental responsibility.

• Publisert: Jan. 2025
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Antall sider: 144
  
• Språk: Engelsk
• Innbinding: Heftet
• ISBN: 9781835290644

Dette store østerriske kartforlaget er kjent for sin klare kartografi og gode papirkvalitet. De kommer i alle målestokker, og flere av landkartene inneholder bykart og turistinformasjon.

• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Papir
• Målestokk: 1:75 000

Løypekart Østmarka er ett av fire spesialkart i målestokk 1:20 000 som dekker Oslomarka. Kartet er utarbeidet i tett samarbeid med Skiforeningen. Kartserien er skreddersydd for vinterbruk og dekker mer enn 3 000 kilometer med preparerte skiløyper.

Hvert kart viser tydelig løypetyper og avstandsinformasjon, samt nyttige tillegg som parkeringsplasser, hytter og serveringssteder. Informasjonen er tilrette-lagt for enkel koordinering med sanntidsinformasjon på Skiforeningens nettside. Kartene er basert på terrengdata fra laserskanning fra fly, noe som sikrer enestående nøyaktighet i detaljene.

• Målestokk: 1:20000
• Utgitt: 2024

Make the most of your trip to Mexico City with this Top 10 guide. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Mexico City has to offer and ensuring that you don’t miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about.

Inside this guide to Mexico City, you’ll find:-Top 10 lists of Mexico City's must-sees and must-dos, including wandering around the Historic Center, visiting the Museo Nacional de Arte and taking a boat ride through the Xochimilco Floating Gardens-Mexico City’s most interesting areas, with the best places for sightseeing, food and drink, and shopping-Themed lists, including the best museums, parks and gardens, festivals, local dishes and much more-Brand-new itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend or a week-A laminated pull-out map of Mexico City, plus five full-colour area maps. DK's Top 10 travel guides have been helping travellers to make the most of their breaks since 2002. Looking for more on Mexico City’s culture, history and attractions? Try our DK Mexico travel guide.

• Publisert: Des 2024
  
• Antall sider: 128
  
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9780241698105

New from Bradt is Croatia: Dalmatian Coast, a travel guidebook that focuses exclusively and in detail on this popular part of Croatia. Co-authored by travel writer Piers Letcher, who wrote six editions of Bradt's guide Croatia, and longstanding Dalmatian resident Jane Foster, Croatia: Dalmatian Coast offers intimate local insights into where best to stay and eat, and what to see and do in this gorgeous southeast European enclave. With rugged limestone mountains, crystalline turquoise waters and pine-scented islands, Dalmatia has for centuries delighted explorers - and this is where most of today's visitors to Croatia still head.

With its balmy Mediterranean climate, this is a land of silvery-green olive groves, hillside vineyards, pebble coves, waterside villages, stone cottages, wooden fishing boats and pink-flowering oleander. Meanwhile, the Dalmatian mainland is home to the well-preserved port cities of Split, Zadar and Dubrovnik (with its UNESCO-listed, pedestrians-only old town), where sturdy fortifications protect exquisite Romanesque and Baroque churches, and bustling fish markets display mounds of wide-eyed sea bream and glistening octopus. With this Bradt guide sharing a local's first-hand experience, you'll be sure to eat well: think fresh fish, local seasonal fruit and vegetables, and home-produced olive oil, whether consumed in excellent, family-run agrotourism eateries or newly Michelin-starred restaurants.

You'll drink great wines too, informed by the author's knowledge of Dalmatian wines and wine-tasting. For many visitors, Dalmatia's greatest allure involves exploring its dramatic landscapes and unspoilt nature. Castaway-style islands such as Hvar, with its rustic-chic seafood eateries and candle-lit cocktail bars, are much loved by yachters who sail around the uninhabited islets of Kornati National Park.

Then there's windsurfing off Bol on Brac, scuba diving off Vis, and sea-kayaking or paddling around the Korcula archipelago too. On the mainland, rugged mountains and gaping gorges offer yet more challenges for adventure-sports enthusiasts - try hiking the soaring limestone heights of Mt Biokovo, free-climbing in Paklenica National Park or rafting down the Cetina Gorge, in the hinterland behind Omis. Little wonder that land- and water-based adventure sports are treated to a full chapter in Bradt's Croatia: Dalmatian Coast - the perfect companion to your visit.

• Publisert: Okt 2024
  
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Antall sider: 248
  
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
  

Denne boka er unik ved at den på en praktisk måte sammenlikner hvordan de statskontrollerte fjernsynskanalene og det som fortsatt er igjen av mer uavhengige russiske medier rapporterter om Krim, Ukraina, Norge, Baltikum, Tsjetsjenia, Georgia, historie, politikk og en rekke andre temaer. Boka er en hyllest til de tøffe og uavhengige journalistene i Russland som med stor integritet fortsetter å jobbe profesjonelt til tross for hyppige drap, overfall, trusler og statlig press.

Boka er med på å forklare hvordan flertallet av russere ofte tenker annerledes en andre europeere, og er en påminnelse om hva som skjer når man ikke lenger makter å tenke kritisk.

• Forfatter: Richard Bærug
• Publisert: 2018
  
• Antall sider: 496
  
• Innbinding: Innbundet
• Språk: Norsk bokmål
• ISBN: 9788283301847

Nordic Maps har laget en guide med 31 av Oslos populære attraksjoner. Guiden er i formatet 50 x 70 cm. På den ene siden er det et bykart, på den andre siden en kort engelsk tekst om hver attraksjon.

QR-kodene på attraksjonene leder direkte til Google Maps’ veibeskrivelse (til fots). Noen av bildene i guiden har også fått AR-funksjon, det vil si at du får opp video av attraksjonen når du skanner bildet med en AR-app. På videoen er det også lagt på en guide (generert ved hjelp av kunstig intelligens) som forteller om attraksjonen på bildet.

About this guide - Oslo guide with augmented reality: 

Nordic Maps has picked out 31 of the most popular sights in Oslo, from the classic must-sees to the more hidden gems.

• Format: 50 x 70 cm
• Map scale: 1: 10 000
  Information and images on one side (English text).
  Map of Oslo on the other side, including pins that show where you can find each attraction.

How to use the guide: Download an app (QR code on back cover of guide). Scan images with AR (augmented reality) logo to see videos from the sights and attractions. In addition, you will find that each attraction has a QR code to Google Maps. Use your phones QR Code reader or open your camera app to scan the codes.

Please note that only images with AR logo can be scanned with the app. The content shown will be active for at least a year after you purchase.

The United Kingdom may be geographically small, but it is so packed with touristic sites that it needs to be broken down into logical units to be manageable. This is the first of several maps we will be publishing of England at 1:250,000 scale, covering Southeast England from Dover to Southampton north to Luton on Side 1 and from Colchester to Coventry north to Sheffield and Boston; essentially all of SE England from the Channel to Derbyshire and west to the Isle of Wight.

Even at this scale, there is only room to show major attractions without creating clutter. Both road and rail routes are clearly shown, with rapid-rail routes shown in red. This latter feature is not included on most other maps, an one notes with a bit of surprise that this part of England has more such routes than is generally believed to exist. We travelled on one of these trains during our recent visit to the UK (albeit from Newcastle to Edinburgh) and they are quite an improvement! Whether by train or by road, all options are shown. Whether one wishes to visit Hever Castle in Kent or Winchester cathedral, or the university cities of Cambridge or Oxford, this is an ideal map for exploring one of the most touristic corners of Europe.

• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Papir
• Målestokk: 1:250 000

Let Secret Louisiana guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Louisiana travel guide book and let our local experts show you over 200 well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

The places included in our guides are unusual and unfamiliar, allowing one to step off the beaten track. The smallest church in the world, a tree where old shoes promise to unburden your soul, a family home built from found objects such as window shutter, trampolines, and eight waterpark slides, the grave of married dogs, the only example of congo style architecture built by African Americans, one of the finest examples of folk art in the world built by one man on the side of a bayou, ancient Native American objects whose purpose is unknown, the one-time capital of Texas, one of the most humorous 'battles " of World War II, millions of years old fossils on the side of a highway, the site of the finest wedding ever to take place in the South, the world’s largest bald cypress tree…

• Forfatter: Chris Champagne 
• Publisert: 2024
• Antall sider: 256
  
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
  
• ISBN: 9782361956752

It comes in the detailed scale of 1:20,000, showing everything very clearly. It is printed on Polyart plastic “paper”, making it totally waterproof and rip-proof. You can fold it and unfold it a hundred times, fold it in irregular ways, dunk it in the sea or leave it out in the rain. This map is indestructible! The island’s entire coastline is mapped for the first time with TERRAIN’s specially equipped cartographic vessel. This means that you can locate all beaches of the island, down to the tiniest cove! . The best mountain-bike routes are shown on a map for the first time, inviting you to discover an unknown face of Skiathos. Hotel sites are indicated, so you can easily locate them. Moreover, the reverse side features an illustrated mini travel guide, with information on the island’s myths and history, geography and natural environment, sights and major attractions.

• Publisert: 2022
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Vannfast papir
• Målestokk: 1:20 000

Oppdag de postkort-verdige Belgiske byene Brugge og Ghent med denne underholdende og oversiktlige reiseguiden, fra populære Rough Guides. 

• Publisert: Okt. 2024
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Antall sider: 160
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781839057663

Brand new from Bradt is Okinawa and Japan's Southwest Islands, the sole travel guidebook dedicated to the archipelago stretching from the southern tip of mainland Japan to Taiwan, whose landscapes include award-winning beaches, coral reefs, tropical jungles and ancient forests. This guide contains all the detailed information that travellers need to get the most out of their visit, from accommodation and restaurants to transport and sights. Japan expert Jo Davey complements this with rich context and entertaining insights to help readers understand this fascinating region, covering culture, recipes, architectural highlights, historical episodes and traditional folktales.

Japan's Southwest Islands are a remote but rewarding and geographically diverse area that comprises the Satsunan Islands (formed of the Osumi and Amami islands) and the Ryukyu Islands (consisting of the Okinawa, Kerama, Miyako and Yaeyama islands). The capital city of Naha on Okinawa-honto is a bright and busy hub of history, art, karate and food. Thanks to its many US military bases and post-war occupation by the US, Naha is a fusion of Japanese and American culture.

In contrast, the more remote islands preserve traditional Ryukyuan life with festivals, architecture, traditional accommodation and religious sites. Depending where you travel, you can dive with manta rays off Iriomote or kayak along its jungle rivers, hike through Yakushima's ancient forest, search for star sand on Taketomi, pay tribute to the fallen of World War II at museums and monuments on Okinawa-honto, cycle between Miyako's award-winning beaches, take home a chunk of rope from the world's largest tug-of-war (in Naha) or go whale watching off the Kerama Islands. Wherever you go, the islands' amazing food - known for being the world's healthiest cuisine - can be found throughout the archipelago.

• Publisert: August 2024
• Utgave: 1. utgave
• Antall sider: 384
  
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781784776824

Hiking map Soca Valley, Isonzo, Alpi Giulie / Julian Alps, Triglav, Nova Gorica: The map for hiking, cycling and many other activities in nature. Compass hiking maps are easy to read and still contain all the information you need for a perfect hiking tour, a bike ride or an excursion. They depict nature at the right scale. Countless additional information is continually checked and expanded by the cartography team. The precise cartography includes all official hiking trails with names and trail numbers (such as long-distance trails), cycle paths (with trails), via ferratas, inns and huts, parking lots, buses and trains, ski tours and cross-country ski trails, springs, swimming areas and much more. This makes the map ideal for discovering new destinations, planning tours and finding your way around on the go. An intuitive map image of the landscape is created by the depicted vegetation, contour lines, rock drawings and the shading (shadows) of the mountains. Features of the hiking map Soca Valley, Isonzo, Alpi Giulie / Julian Alps, Triglav, Nova Gorica: - Scale 1:50,000: 1cm on the main map corresponds to 500m in nature.

• Publisert : 2024
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Vannfast papir
• Målestokk: 1:50 000

Michelin er en av verdens beste, og best kjente, kartserier. Kartene har glimrende kartografi.

• Publisert: 2024
• Innbinding: Falset
• Materiale: Papir
• Målestokk: 1:80 000