From alternatives to the Carnival in Rio and the beaches of Thailand to substitutes for the most visited national parks and over-rated restaurants, this title helps you find less crowded, sometimes less expensive and often more spectacular and rewarding places to visit.

The Road Less Travelled: Foreword by Bill Bryson (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Price: £10.78

A guide to Spain. It includes cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of Spain’s must-see sites, as well as street-by-street maps of its grand cities and quaint towns. It helps you to discover Spain region by region; from the unique culture of luscious Catalonia to unspoilt paradise island, Formentera.

Price: £7.20

“Lucid, fluid, uplifting” SUNDAY TIMESWith the help of a selection of writers, artists and thinkers — including Flaubert, Edward Hopper, Wordsworth and Van Gogh — Alain de Botton’s bestselling THE ART OF TRAVEL provides invaluable insights into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing.The perfect antidote to those guides that tell us what to do when we get there, THE ART OF TRAVEL tries to explain why we really went in the first place — and helpfully suggests how we might be happier on our journeys.

A travel guide that leads you to the best attractions of California. Whether you’re making the most of the illustrious nightlife or discovering California’s history in the museums of San Francisco, it provides the insider tips the various visitors need, with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife for budgets.

Price: £6.80

From swimming with colourful fish in the Perhentian Islands to spotting orangutans in Sarawak, discovering the ultra-modern skyscrapers of Singapore to exploring colonial Gerogetown, this guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs. It also includes listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife for all budgets.

Price: £8.26

This illustrated Travel Guide is a part of the Mobi Sights series, our concise guides that only feature the most essential information on city attractions. This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. Inside you will find a locator map and a list of top attractions linked to individual articles. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions information are included. This travel guide also features an itinerary with our suggestions for your travel route. Itineraries include links to individual attraction articles.

Please search for “Travel Venice,” part of the Mobi Travel series, if you are interested in the complete travel guide that includes more maps and attractions with additional articles on history, cultural venues, transportation, districts, dining, accommodations, units conversion, and a phrasebook.

NEW FEATURE: The attraction articles now include links to Google Maps. On a dedicated electronic reader with a slow connection and a primitive browser, Google Maps will display the attraction on the map along with metro stations, roads, and nearby attractions. On an internet-enabled device such as the iPhone and the iPad, Google Maps will even show you the route from your current location to the attraction you want to go to.

With this travel guide you can turn some eReaders into an audio guides. For example, on the Kindle, just open an article and click Shift+SYM to activate text-to-speech. Put the speaker on the back of the Kindle against your ear and enjoy your virtual travel companion. Press Spacebar to pause/resume text-to-speech.

All travel guides in the Mobi Sights series are only $0.99. Search for any title: enter mobi (short for MobileReference) and a keyword; for example: mobi Paris.

Venice Sights 2012: a travel guide to the top 45 attractions in Venice, Italy (Mobi Sights)

Overland adventurer John Dwyer has less than three months to travel through China, Tibet, Nepal and India and he has a to-do list:

• Drink snake blood
• Smuggle himself into Tibet
• Climb to Mount Everest Base Camp
• Ride on the roof of a Nepali bus
• Witness the dead burning by the Ganges

Ranging from the Great Wall of China to the Taj Mahal, his journey takes him across Asia’s wildest and most fascinating regions. Join him on his epic trek as he meets the ear cleaners of Chengdu, hikes into the peerless Himalayas, observes secretive ceremonies in Tibet, fends off a champion hawker at the Great Wall, and meets a woman that will change his life forever.

“I absolutely loved your book.  I could not put it down!  What a wonderful adventure!  Thank you for sharing it with us.” – M. Pema
“I just want to say thanks for a great read, especially for me the chapters, on Tibet and Nepal, as I was there on a 3 week trip last August” – M. Cotter

Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase is a wildly popular podcast about airline travel by real life flight attendant Betty, who shares funny stories from pilots, flight controllers, ground crew, passengers, and fellow flight attendants and is listened to by hundreds of thousands of Betty fans around the world. Now, by popular demand, here is the best of Betty in a book in what may be the world’s first podcast-turned-book, or pook. It’s a wonderful way to be entertained in the airport, on a plane, at home, and anywhere you want a good laugh.

Betty in the Sky with a Suitcase: Hilarious Stories of Air Travel by the World’s Favorite Flight Attendant

Packed with photographs, illustrations and detailed maps, this title helps you discover St Petersburg district by district; from the grandeur of the Palace Embankment to the leafy avenues of Vasilevskiy Island. It also includes 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sites and useful street maps to help you find your away around.

Price: £6.33

This illustrated Travel Guide is a part of the Mobi Sights series, our concise guides that only feature the most essential information on city attractions. This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. Inside you will find a locator map and a list of top attractions linked to individual articles. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions information are included. The guide also features three walking tours with our suggestions for your travel route.

Please search for “Travel Rome”, part of the Mobi Travel series, if you are interested in the complete travel guide that includes more maps and attractions with additional articles on history, cultural venues, transportation, districts, dining, accommodations, units conversion, and a phrasebook.

NEW FEATURE: This guide now includes links to Google Maps. On electronic readers with slow connection and a primitive browser (such as Amazon Kindle and BN Nook Color), Google Maps will display attractions on a map along with metro stations, roads, and nearby attractions. On internet-enabled devices, including the iPhone, the iPad, and many other phones, Google Maps will even show you the route from where you are located to the attraction you want to go to.

With this travel guide you can turn some eReaders into an audio guides. For example, on the Kindle, just open an article and click Shift+SYM to activate text-to-speech. Put the speaker on the back of the Kindle against your ear and enjoy your virtual travel companion. Press Spacebar to pause/resume text-to-speech.

Most travel guides in the Mobi Sights series are only $0.99. Search for any title: enter mobi (short for MobileReference) and a keyword; for example: mobi Paris.

Rome Sights 2012: a travel guide to the top 50 attractions in Rome, Italy. Includes three walking tours. (Mobi Sights)