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Michelin Green Guide Austria

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Michelin slipped up with this one.......2007-06-25

We have been fans of Michelin's Green Guide series for thirty years, but have become increasingly disappointed with the sloppy proof reading in the last four revised guides we have purchased. I had high hopes for this 2007 revision of the Austria guide, because our 2001 edition still had prices listed in schillings. Austria adopted the Euro in 1999, and so I assumed that this version would be fully updated. But NO! The lodging and eating out sections for Vienna still list all the prices in shillings! Who even knows what "Single room from 1 300S.", means!?! And note the lack of a comma in "1 300S", so you're not entirely sure whether the 1 is their shorthand for "single", or whether it is 1,300 shillings -- whatever THAT equals.

Then there are the places that appear to have been cut and pasted from another source. For example, there is an almost full-page text box of the Hapsburg family tree. The editors have forgotten that people buy this edition for its text in English, because the box is entitled, "Stammbaum des Herrscherhauses Hapsburg". Maybe a family tree is self explanatory, and maybe readers can figure out that the "Ludwig XVI" who is married to Marie Antoinette is known to English speakers as Louis XVI. But it is just sloppy editing.

I won't dwell on the many sentences that have missing words because I want to get to one of the most vexing features, and that is the insufficient indexing. Many readers are familiar with Michelin's 3-, 2- and 1-star system of rating principal sights. Three star sites are highly recommended, two star are recommended and one star sites are interesting. But many of the two-star sites -- and even a three-star site (Wilhering) -- do not even appear in the index or in the alphabetically-arranged main text!! How is one to decide whether to visit sites that this guide ostensibly recommends by awarding them two stars if neither the index nor the alphabetically-arranged main text can get you to a description of these places!?! Examples are Staatz, Stams, Hohe Mut, Jochdohle, Hafelekar, and Grosser Ahornboden. When the answer is to look in another guide it is time to toss this one.

As Americans living in Vienna we use a lot of travel guides. Of the nine we have for Vienna and Austria, I like "Best Drives Austria - ISBN 0749539240" for its clearly-depicted circuit drives; a book published here in Vienna and not available on Amazon - "Only in Vienna - by Duncan J.D. Smith" for its descriptions of unique sights in Vienna -- like the Turkish cannonballs embedded in Stephansdom; and the Eyewitness Travel Guides for Vienna and for Austria, for their maps, indexing (15-18 pages, 3-columns across and small font, as opposed to this Michelin guide's 7 pages, 2 columns, regular font) and recommended places to stay and eat.

Michelin the Green Guide Austria (Michelin Green Guides)

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Excellent But Somewhat Dated

Michelin the Green Guide Austria (Michelin Green Guides)

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ASIN: 2060008867

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This title in the acclaimed Michelin Green Guide series brings you the "best of Austria" in one volume. Designed for discerning travellers who wish to visit several regions on a single trip, this compact guide is an indispensable travel companion for those in search of the quintessential Austria.

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Excellent But Somewhat Dated.......2005-05-13

The book is generally very good, but remember it, like the US auto club tour books, is geared toward the motorist. There is precious little information about rail travel, etc., except for getting around Vienna. Unfortunately it was just published before the Euro became Austria's only currency and all prices, etc. are still denominated in Schillings. The index could also be more comprehensive. Otherwise the book is excellent, and very detailed and I recommend it.

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Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE Vienna, 2e
Michelin Staff
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Austria Green Guide
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Michelin Le Guide Vert Autriche (Michelin Green Guides (Foreign Language))

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Michelin Le Guide Vert Autriche (Michelin Green Guides (Foreign Language))
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Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE Autriche, 2e
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Terre où l'harmonie des paysages s'exprime dans la musique, l'Autriche invite à un spectacle ininterrompu sur arrière-plan de hauts sommets. Le rythme de la valse emporte dans l'atmosphère magique des contes de la Forêt viennoise et des rives du Danube; le génial et extravagant Mozart guide les pas dans son élégante cité. Et dans l'éclat lumineux des monuments baroques, on découvre la richesse humaine d'un peuple dont les traditions culturelles ont épanoui l'aimable caractère.

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an accurate, very well informed cultural & historical guide

Michelin Green Guide: Vienna
Michelin Travel Publications
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Once a mighty imperial capital and residence of the Habsburgs, Vienna is a city of enchantment, festive and lavish, with great powers of attraction. The Austrian capital's charm has beguiled many a musician. Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms, Haydn, Schubert and Strauss, were all Viennese by birth or adoption and music has become the spirit of this musical metropolis. Vienna the nostaalgic, cherishes a rich architectural heritage with the added diversity of Historicism and the Secession, two uniquely Viennese periods. The charming Viennese enjoy strolling along the banks of the Danube, lingering to read their newspapers in one of the elegant coffee-houses of the city center or singing while sipping local wines in a friendly open-air wine tavern on the outskirts of the capital.

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an accurate, very well informed cultural & historical guide.......1999-02-12

At last the guide Vienna deserves! Not only full of informations about museums opening hours and location of tourist office or railway stations, but a real literary content for a cultural capital. The visitor needs such a focus on the rich and tumultuous history of the former habsburger city to enjoy her treasures. The michelin's touch gives you more : details, genealogy of each famous curiosity and a precious introduction to the viennese "art de vivre" that allows you to feel as an insider of this astonishing city. A good way for a successful journey. But it's really a pity you can't find any hotel and restaurant in this book. Why the hell Michelin does not give this information. Do they believe it is a good way to sell more "red guides" : they should at least give a kind of short list of "hotels de charme"

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Michelin THE GREEN GUIDE Vienne, 1e
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A tourist guide in French for Vienna.

Michelin Green Sightseeing Travel Guide to Austria

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Michelin Green Sightseeing Travel Guide to Austria
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Michelin Green Sightseeing Travel Guide to Autriche (Austria) French Edition

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'The journey has come back to where it first began'

An excellent short history of the Hebrews

My People: The Story of the Jews
Abba Eban
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My People: Abba Eban's History of the Jews, Vol. 1

My country;: The story of modern Israel

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ASIN: 0394727592
Release Date: 1984-09-12

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'The journey has come back to where it first began'.......2007-08-22

Abba Eban was one of Israel's greatest statesmen. Here the man who helped to make history, documents the history of his own people.My People: The Story of the Jews is the history of the Jewish Nation from the time of Abram and his journey into Canaan, until 1968 CE.

He points out that just as the history of the Jewish Nation began in the Land of Israel, with the return of the Jews to Israel and the re-establishment of the State of Israel 'The journey has come back to where it first began'.
Eban covers the story of Abram and his journey to Canaan, the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt, and their return to Canaan under Joshuah's leadership.
He succintly and skilfully describes the history of ancient Israel describing the great Commonwelath of David and Solomon, the division of the Land of Israel into two Kingdoms, and the wisdom of the Prophets.

He describes how 'Israel's history assumes a unique quality with the Babylonian captivity.Many people have preserved their nationalism on their own soil, even under foreign conquest, but never before had any people preserved it's national identity and spiritual distinctiveness in exile for thousands of years with sufficient vitality to ensure an ultimate rebirth'.
Through millenia the Nation of Israel has remained a unique nation, even in exile retaining it's eternal link with the Land of Israel.
As we progress through the history of the Jewish people through the Greek and Roman conquests and the courageous resistance of the Jews to the ocupation of their homeland, through the destruction of the temple and the eventual exile from the land we are reminded of this.
One must remember that there always remained a Jewish presence in the Land of Israel, throughout the exile, There was never a time when there were no Jews in the Holy Land. This is a story of endurance and renewal. It is a story of how the Jews survived all the massacres and persecution, from the Romans to the Crusaders who swept across Europe anihilating Jewish communities, to the horrific Chmielnitzki massacres and the pogroms in Eastern Europe, the Jews endured.
They refused to assimilate or renounce their faith.
Some like Mohammed and Martin Luther began with a sympathetic attitude to the Jews in the hope that the Jews would adopt these men's religions. When the Jews refused they turned on the Jews with savagery and hate.
The greatest miracle of all was the return to Zion.
We learn the real reason why the Arab leaders opposed the retun of the Jews to their ancient homeland. The doctrine of political equality and social justice that had swept through Europe and later across the Atlantic had made no impression on the dark Arab hinterland, and the Arab leaders and landowner feared the influence the Jewish example of democracy and socail justice would make on their own downtrodden masses.
That is why they stirred up their subjects to attack the Jewish returnees as they have been doing since 1920.
Describing the new Jewish communities set up in the Holy Land in the 1920s and 30s, many of them refugees from Nazi Germany, Eban describes how
'Settlement. cultivation of the land, and self-defence, were the practical answer of Palestine Jewry to Arab hostility and British vacillation. The response was coloured by an awareness of the inherent right of peoples to self-protection and by a belief in the inalienable dignity of human life as a principle from which Jewish life should not be excluded. The years 1939 to 1945 would see that principle shattered across the bloodstained continent of Europe'.
Eban stresses how the Zionist leadership tried to warn the world of the impending holocaust by the Nazis of world Jewry, and in vain urged the allies to act to save the 6 million Jews.
As Ebban describes the rebirth of the State of Israel and the wars of defence, he also stresses the great achievements in culture, medicine, humanity and science made by the Jewish State.
An answer to the vile critics of Israel today :"It is not an offense against the Middle Eastern traditions for a non-Arab and non-Moslem sovereignty to live and flourish in the original home of Hebrew memory and thought. The question is not whetherb Israel will change it's special nature, but whether the Arabs will come to terms with Israel as it is".
In discussing the Six Day War Ebban describes how the Arabs surrounded Israel with troops and weapons, openly threatening Israel and issuing threats of anihilation, much like those being currently issued by Iranian modern day Hitler, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The Six Day War was forced on Israel by the Arabs.
Essentially we are left marvelling how a world that once thundered at the Jews to get out of every land they lived in are now thundering at the Jews to leave their ancient homeland.
Abba Eban was a great statesman and leader and also proves that he was a great historian and writer. It is a pity he is no longer with us.

An excellent short history of the Hebrews.......2005-03-02

Abba Eban begins this 550-page work by talking about the Patriarchs. There is a problem with this, given that the history of the Patriarchs is part legend. But it is recent enough so that there is real history to cover plenty of what was going on in the Middle East at the time. And Eban reminds us that the religion of Abraham was not that of, say, Moses. Abraham's "God was not unique, omnipresent, or fully transcendent. He was the deity of Abraham's family, not of other families, still less of all mankind."

The author traces the history of the Hebrews from then on, through the age of judges, Kings and Queens, Exile, Roman dominion, the Diaspora, and so on. I was intrigued by the effect of the Fourth Lateran Council, convened in 1215 by Pope Innocent III. This Council appears to have been directly responsible for the next three centuries of Jewish expulsions from various countries in Europe.

There is an excellent discussion of Theodore Herzl and the rise of Modern Zionism. Eban has over a page of quotes from Herzl's Diaries about it. "What made me into a Zionist was the Dreyfus case." "Death to Jews all because one was a traitor? But was he really a traitor?" "In a lower stratum of society, I would deny such a possibility among Jews as little as among Christians. In Alfred Dreyfus's case, however, it was psychologically impossible. A wealthy man, who had chosen this career only through ambition, simply could not have committed the most dishonorable of all crimes." Herzl realized that Dreyfus's desire for honor was too great for him to have done it.

By the way, not only did the case make Herzl a Zionist, I think it ought to make every human being a Zionist. Zionism is Jewish nationalism, and that is merely a commitment to human rights for all people (including Jews).

The author discusses the fate of the Jews during World War Two. He explains that the slaughter of the Jews was not the work of only a few people. "Thousands of officials were necessary to carry out these tasks."

Nor were the Germans and their allies the only culprits. Lord Moyne, the British Colonial Secretary, refused to allow Romanian Jews to immigrate to the Levant in 1941. Instead, he helped keep the notorious British White Paper of 1939 in force. Moyne later insisted that Britian could "not be a party to any measures which could undermine the existing policy regarding illegal immigration" into the Levant. Perhaps it is not surprising that justice was served when Moyne was assassinated in 1944.

Nor is it surprising that Chaim Weizmann, speaking at the 1946 Zionist Congress, in a classic understatement said of the 1939 White Paper, "Few documents in history have worse consequences for which to answer."

The book continues through the Six Day War and beyond. That war actually began not on June 5, 1967 with the Israeli air strikes on Egypt but on May 22, 1967 when Egypt's Nasser announced the imposition of a blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba. In a speech (on May 22) which "settled for all time the question of responsibility for the 1967 war," Nasser said:

"Taking over Sharm-el-Sheikh means confrontation with Israel. Taking such action means that we are ready to enter war with Israel. It is not a separate action. The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel."

In retrospect, the Arab side would have profited little from defeating Israel. They also failed to profit from losing to it. That's still the case.

I highly recommend this book.

My People: Abba Eban's History of the Jews, Vol. 1

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My People: Abba Eban's History of the Jews, Vol. 1
David Bamberger
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My People: Abba Eban's History of the Jews, Student Activity Book (My People)

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The latest volume in our popular Art Deco series, German Modern explores one of the fountainheads of modern graphic design. The renowned design team of Heller and Fili presents over 200 of the distinctive images that helped define the look of "the modern"-many never before published. Through posters, advertising stamps, letterheads, package design, magazine jackets, and numerous other commercial ephemera, the cool sophistication of this hybrid deco style looks as fresh today as it did when it first appeared between the world wars. Unique to German Modern is a chapter on the provisional currency known as Notgeld, which towns and even companies were allowed to print in the years of Germany's dire inflation. A key reference work and inspirational sourcebook for designers, artists, and aesthetes, German Modern is a colorful exploration of a classic and influential chapter ?of international design history.

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Great book........2007-07-04

I really enjoy this book. I find myself looking at it a lot.
There sure was some great design during this time period. This book captures examples of some of the best.

German Modern. Graphic Design from Wilhelm to Weimar.

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German Modern. Graphic Design from Wilhelm to Weimar.
Steven, & Louise FILI. HELLER
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German Modern : Graphic Design from Wilhelm to Weimar
Steven; Fili, Louise Heller
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