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France: IGN Top 100 Road Maps of France (previously Série Verte)
| Titles: | 74 |
| Publisher: | IGN (France Survey) |
| Scale: | 1:100,000 |
IGN's topographic road maps of France - the best maps exploring the French countryside by car, on a bike, or even on foot, used by millions of tourists and locals alike. The maps show more minor roads...
France: Topo-guides to Long-distance Footpaths
| Titles: | 71 |
| Publisher: | Fédération Française de la Randonnée |
Light, A5-size, high quality paperback guides to the Sentiers de Grande Randonnée, the GR routes, a dense network of long-distance footpaths across the French countryside. Each topo-guide covers either...
France: Topo-guides with Day Walks
| Titles: | 188 |
| Publisher: | Fédération Française de la Randonnée |
An extensive series of light, A5-size, high quality paperback guides with colour extracts from the French topographic survey at 1:25,000 or 1:50,000, or street maps if appropriate, overprinted with...
La Porta del Cel Hiking Circuit
| Publisher: | Editorial Alpina |
| Catalogue number: | 162439 |
| Scale: | 1:25,000 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
A 65-km long, cross-border hiking circuit rising to the summit of the Pica d’Estats (3143m). The map, from the publishers of an extensive hiking series for the Spanish Pyrenees, has contours at 10m...
Via Gallia Belgica: Chemin de Saint-Jacques Hélécine – Brussels – Saint-Quentin
| Publisher: | Les Amis de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, Belgium |
| Catalogue number: | 169204 |
| Scale: | 1:50,000 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Via Gallia Belgica, one of the Way of St James pilgrim routes to Santiago de Compostella, from Hélécine in Belgium to Saint-Quentin in France, in an A5, paperback guide with colour extracts from the...
| Relevant titles: | 3 |
| Publisher: | Visible Cities |
About this series:
Predominantly single-author guides with an emphasis on cultural sight seeing.
Exceptionally strong on the arts, architecture, history and archaeology, while practical information...
| Relevant titles: | 2 |
| Publisher: | Bradt Travel Guides Ltd. |
Comprehensive guides for adventurous travellers wanting to explore destinations off the beaten track, written mostly by single authors.
Highlighting culture and natural history, these are predominantly...
| Relevant titles: | 4 |
| Publisher: | Dorling Kindersley |
High-quality guides renowned for their photographs and illustrations. The emphasis is on culture and sightseeing. Imaginative cutaway diagrams show the layout of many historic buildings: museums, galleries...
France - Freewheeling made easy
| Publisher: | Smooth Ride Guides |
| Catalogue number: | 125473 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 7 days |
The guide begins with an explanation of the criteria used to classify the accessibility of a site, and the associated symbols used in the guide. Introductory sections cover airports, ferry and train...
| Relevant titles: | 16 |
| Publisher: | Michelin |
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Well-illustrated and enormously detailed cultural touring guides, often particularly good for drivers. Good, clear colour maps & town plans. With an emphasis on cultural activities...
Lonely Planet Countries and Regions Guides
| Relevant titles: | 3 |
| Publisher: | Lonely Planet |
Market-leading comprehensive guides, predominantly practical in content and aimed at independent travellers. Frank and informal in style, with a layout that makes for exceptional ease of use, these...
| Relevant titles: | 2 |
| Publisher: | Michelin |
A series of hotel & restaurant guides with an unparalleled reputation for reliability and consistency.
Organised alphabetically by town, all entries have been inspected and graded by Michelin and contact...
| Relevant titles: | 9 |
| Publisher: | Rough Guides |
Highly popular and respected comprehensive guidebooks. Rough Guides provide extensive practical travel advice for all budgets and have gained an excellent reputation amongst independent travellers for...
Bed & Breakfast in France 2006
| Publisher: | AA Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 139679 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
A co-publication by the AA and the French Gites de France, this guide lists about 3,500 Bed & Breakfast establishments around France. They are all inspected and rated by the standards of Gites de France...
| Publisher: | Michelin |
| Catalogue number: | 161506 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The 2008 Michelin guide to Camping and Caravanning in France contains a selection of 2,700 campsites for all budgets and all styles of camper:
- 1,100 good value campsites
- 900 sites with motorhome...
| Sheet reference: | 11 |
| Publisher: | Editions Grafocarte |
| Catalogue number: | 161345 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Waterways guide covering the canals du midi, including Gironde, Garonne and Ba?se.
Every left-hand page displays information about the route, respective of the cartography on the right-hand page.
Cartography...
Canal du Midi à pied et à vélo: Bordeaux à Sète
| Publisher: | Rando Editions |
| Catalogue number: | 167799 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 24 days |
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Chamonix to Zermatt: The Walker's Haute Route
| Author: | Kev Reynolds |
| Publisher: | Cicerone Press |
| Catalogue number: | 150411 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Walker's guide to 'The Walker's Haute Route' from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn, amongst spectacular peaks and valleys. The route covered is 177 kilometers long with a total of over 11,000 metres of...
| Author: | Jonathan Knight |
| Publisher: | Punk Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 165807 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
It's official. Camping is cool. With designer floral-print tents, self-inflating air mattresses and state-of-the-art campsite facilities, it's no longer a chore to head for the hills at the weekend...
| Author: | Sally Adamson Taylor |
| Series: | Culture Shock! |
| Publisher: | Marshall Cavendish Books |
| Catalogue number: | 142714 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
About this series:
CultureShock! is a bestselling series of thoughtful and thorough culture and etiquette guides covering countless destinations around the world.
For anyone at risk of "culture shock...
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