Austria

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Vienna will lead you straight to the very best on offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights, or want to find the best nightspots; this guide is the perfect pocket-sized companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 museums to the Top 10 events and festivals - there's even a list of the Top 10 things to avoid.

The Austrians, in the Xenophobe guide series; consisting of a range of pocket-sized guides which take a humorous and irreverent approach to a wide range of world cultures. Each guide explores the characteristics of a country’s people in a series of dedicated sections, encompassing nationalism and identity, behaviour, manners, character, obsessions, beliefs and values, leisure and pleasure, culture, custom a...

Lonely Planet Austria offers advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch the scenery unfold as you drive up Grossglockner Road, marvel at the grandeur of imperial Vienna, or ski down Austria's many pistes.

The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Austria is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. The new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions on offer. The DK Ey...

Lonely Planet Vienna is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Nibble your way along the market stands of the Naschmarkt, twirl at heady heights on the Prater ferris wheel, then ponder imperial excess in Schloss Schonbrunn; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Vienna and begin your journey now! ...

There is something about the art of travel writing that seems to bring out the very best in the most skilful practitioners. The late Bruce Chatwin produced some of his most incandescent prose in his travel books (some would say even more so than in his novels), and the legacy of this kind of non-pareil work may be found in Claudio Magris' Danube, a book which seamlessly combines sharp descriptive informatio...

Germany with the Benelux counties, Austria and the Czech Republic on a road map at 1:1,000,000 from Michelin, 2016` edition, highlighting locations recommended in the publishers’ Green Guides, plus information on driving regulations and a distance/journey time table. Coverage extends south-west to include Paris, south to Bern, and south-east to Lake Balaton in Hungary.

The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Vienna will lead you straight to the best attractions Vienna has to offer. The guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of Vienna's stunning architecture, and 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot.

Discover the freedom of open roads while touring with Lonely Planet Germany, Austria and Switzerland's Best Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering this region by car.

The Lonely Planet German Phrasebook is not only an extensive list of useful phrases, but also an ideal tool to start getting to grips with a language and beginning two-way communication. Containing excellent sections on language basics such as numbers, question phrases, dates, phrase construction, grammar and pronunciation, as well as containing concise but well-rounded two-way dictionaries, Lonely Planet p...

Vienna at 1:15,000 on a pocket-size street plan from Marco Polo Travel Publishing printed on sturdy, waterproof and tear-resistant synthetic paper, with tram and bus routes shown with stops and line numbers, U- and S- Bahn stations clearly marked and the lines shown on a separate diagram, lists of useful addresses, etc

Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia at 1:800,000 on a double-sided indexed map from the AA prominently highlighting locations worth visiting, plus large town centre street plans of Vienna, Salzburg, Basle, Bern, Geneva, Zurich and Ljubljana. On one side coverage extends from Freiburg in the Black Forest and Munich to Aosta - Como – Trento in Italy, and from the French Jura to Salzburg. On the reverse is easte...

Salzburg in the Pocket Guide series from Berlitz; a collection of handy, pocket-sized guides dedicated to an extensive range of cities, regions and countries worldwide. Written in narrative form, individual guides explore the history, main sights and attractions, food and drink, accommodation and local culture of the destination in detail.

This is an English-language guide to the epic new 750-km hiking route through the mountains of Austria, Slovenia and Italy, from the foot of the Grossglockner (at 3,798m, the highest peak in Austria and the Eastern Alps) to Muggia near Trieste on the Adriatic coast.

This comprehensive guide, covers all aspects of the area - history, legends, customs, food, art and architecture, transport and other practicalities. Detailed plans of the major towns and villages include locations of places to stay and eat; separate index entries list over 150 recommended restaurants. Each chapter covers a specific area, with detailed information about the various towns and villages - from...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMPSON. The Third Man is Graham Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates...The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of ...

When potter Edmund de Waal first came across the 264 minute wood and ivory carvings in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie, he was entranced. Later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke' carvings, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined...

Shortlisted for the 2015 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. In December 1933, an eighteen-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out in a pair of hobnailed boots to chance and charm his way across Europe, 'like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar,' on foot from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. The books he later wrote about this walk, A Time of Gifts (1977), Between the Woods and the Wat...

Heard “La donna è mobile” or “Sempre libera” in La Fenice? Seen the Ring and Parsifal at Bayreuth? Been to La Scala, Covent Garden and the Met? This sumptuously produced book with beautiful photographs has them all, plus 27 other opera houses from a baroque gem of the Zámacké Barokní Divadlo in Ceský Krumlov or Marie Antoinette’s favourite stage, the Théatre de la Reine at Versailles, to some of the most ex...

The first of two volumes covering the Danube Cycle Route, this guide describes cycling the first half of the 1271km Danube river from its source in the Black Forest to Budapest. The main route in this volume has been broken into 29 stages, averaging 44km per stage.