Passionate Places

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: France. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you’ll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, and detailed neighborhood maps, as well as timelines, charts, even Metro stations. Broken into four sections–”Introducing France,” “Region by Region” (covering Paris quite impressively, as well as the Loire Valley, Provence, Brittany, and Normandy), “Traveler’s Needs,” and “Survival Guide”–the guide paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will especially appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from ski towns in the Alps to the beaches of St. Tropez to vineyards of the Rhone Valley. You’ll also find street-by-street illustrated city walks (Paris’s Champs-Ã�lysées and St. Germain-des-Pres are two good ones), not to mention the best brasseries, bistros, and boulangeries. –Jill Fergus Whether you are planning to visit a city, a region or a country, DK’s foolproof ‘Eyewitness’ approach makes learning about a place a pleasure in itself. All the traditional guidebook subject matter is covered-descriptions of sights, opening times, hotels, restaurants, shopping, entertainment, phrase books etc- but, with the help of specially commissioned illustrations and maps, DK makes essential information easy to access and quick to absorb. No other guides explain the history of a place as clearly in words and pictures. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides-the best guides ever created.

Continuing to expand our South American coverage, this beautifully illustrated Eyewitness guide will be the premier travel book to Peru, with complete coverage of Lima, the Amazon Basin, and, of course, Machu Picchu. Whether your interests lie in floating on Lake Titicaca, watching the condors soar at Colca Canyon or experimenting with South American cuisine, DK Eyewitness Peru will help you find the essence of the Andes.Folded, laminated, indexed, street map of Boston, showing all streets, parks, and train stations at a scale of 1:23,000. Legend includes cultural sites, hotels, places of interest, public transportation routes, and more. Also includes insets for Downtown and the regional area. Legend is in English.This travel guide offers practical help and information to visitors to Spain. Detailed street finder maps give instant access to districts, streets and buildings. Annual revisions ensure opening times, telephone numbers, prices, and hotels and reservations recommendations are kept up-to-date.Few cities have as much to offer as Prague, so it can be difficult to decide how best to spend your time, but the Eyewitness Travel Guide helps you to get the most from your stay. This guide will introduce you to Prague by locating the city geographically, setting modern Prague in its historical context. Learn about the city’s main attractions and sights including a feature on the River Vltava. Discover other places around Prague with the day trips listed in the section Prague Area by Area. It is the carefully researched tips for hotels and restaurants, shops, markets, cafes, bars, entertainment and sporting events that separates this guide from the rest. Let the maps, photography and detailed illustration of the Eyewitness Travel Guide show you what others only tell you.In the late ’70s, Ted Simon rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him around the world. Through breakdowns, prison, war, revolutions, disasters and a Californian commune, he travelled into the depths of fear and reached the heights of euphoria. He met astonishing people and was treated as a spy, a welcome stranger and even a god. For Simon, the trip became a journey into his own soul, and for many others – including bikers Charley Boorman and Ewan McGrergor – it provides an inspiration they will never forget.Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, each book in DK’s Top 10 series uses evocative color photography, excellent cartography, and up-to-date travel content to create a reliable and useful pocket-sized travel guide.

Dozens of Top 10 lists provide vital information on each destination, as well as insider tips, from uncovering a city’s most memorable sights to finding the best restaurants and hotels in each neighborhood. And to save you time and money, there’s even a Top 10 list of Things to Avoid.

Each Top 10 contains a pull-out map and guide that includes fold-out maps of city metro systems, useful phone numbers, and 60 great ideas on how to spend your day.This ebook is a handy and usable travel guide to Rome. It was adapted for ebook readers from wikitravel.org*, which was named by Time magazine as one of the 50 best websites of 2008. This ebook has been prepared by Dolphin books specifically for the ebook readers such as the Amazon Kindle, and includes careful formatting and a hyperlinked table of contents. In length, this ebook is roughly equivalent to 200 printed pages.

This ebook contains no advertising. Dolphin books is not paid to endorse any products or services.

Among other things, this guide provides:

information about travelling to from and within Rome, by plane, train,metro, taxi, bus, bicycle, foot, and boat.

maps

useful telephone numbers

hundreds of useful Italian phrases

lists of events, landmarks, museums, and things to do

information on shopping, dining, drinking, and hotels

*wikitravel.org does not endorse this ebook nor any other product.

Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong.

As They See ‘Em is an insider’s look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure America’s favorite pastime is conducted in a manner that is clean, crisp, and true. Bruce Weber, a New York Times reporter, not only interviewed dozens of professional umpires but entered their world, trained to become an umpire, and then spent a season working games from Little League to big league spring training.

As They See ‘Em is Weber’s entertaining account of this experience as well as a lively exploration of what amounts to an eccentric secret society, with its own customs, its own rituals, its own colorful vocabulary. (Know what a “whacker” is? A “pole bender”? “Rat cheese”? Think you could “strap it on” or “take the stick”?) He explains the arcane set of rules by which umps work and details the exasperating, tortuous path that allows only a select few to graduate from the minor leagues to the majors. He describes what it’s like to work in a ballpark where not only the fans but the players, the managers and coaches, the announcers, the team owners, and even the league presidents, resent them — and vice versa. And he asks, quite sensibly, why anyone would do a job that offers the chance to earn only blame and never credit.

Weber reveals how umps are tutored to work behind the plate, what they learn to watch for on the bases, and how proper positioning for every imaginable situation on the field is drilled into them. He describes how they’re counseled to respond — or not — to managers who are screaming at them from inches away with purposeful inanity, and tells us exactly which “magic” words result in an automatic ejection. Writing with deep knowledge of and affection for baseball, he delves into such questions as: Why isn’t every strike created equal? Is the ump part of the game or outside of it? Why doesn’t a tie go to the runner? And what do umps and managers say to each other during an argument, really?

In addition to professional umpires, Weber spoke to current and former players including Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Tom Glavine, Barry Zito, Paul Lo Duca, Kenny Lofton, Ron Darling, and Robin Yount, as well as former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent, Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox, Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland, and many others in the professional game. He attended the 2006 and 2007 World Series, interviewing the umpire crews who called those games and who spoke candidly about the pressure of being scrutinized by millions — maybe billions! — of fans around the world, all of them armed with television’s slo-mo, hi-def instant replay. As fans know, in 2008, a rash of miscalled home run balls led baseball, for the first time, to use replay to help big league umps make their decisions.Weber discusses these events and the umpires’ surprising reaction to them.

Packed with fascinating reportage that reveals the game as never before and answers the kinds of questions that fans, exasperated by the clichés of conventional sports commentary, pose to themselves around the television set, Bruce Weber’s As They See ‘Em is a towering grand slam.This map of Florence is brand new for 2009. It replaces the previous version of this map. The old version is ISBN: 9780935039658

Streetwise Florence Map – Laminated City Center Street Map of Florence, Italy – Folding pocket size travel map with train tracks & stations

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Famous for its art, high culture, history, and sumptuous cuisine, Florence is a city that must be discovered on foot. Gradually, in dozens of churches, museums, and palaces, the extraordinary riches of the city reveal themselves. Here are the paintings, sculptures and frescoes that illuminated new ways of seeing the world revealing the power of the Renaissance.

STREETWISE® Florence Italy Map, complete with street, site and hotel index, enables you to explore each hidden corner of this city and to discover its historic importance and artistic richness on your own.

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