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You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go—they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us!
This invaluable guide contains all the information you need to get to and around some of the most popular destinations in England. Using London as a base, you can explore the college towns of Oxford and Cambridge; go on rambling walks or bike rides through the English countryside; or experience the mystery of Stonehenge, each in only a day!
We give you all the information you need to plan your day trip, from train schedules to parking information and the best places to pick up picnic supplies or enjoy a more leisurely meal. Detailed maps and suggested itineraries for each destination guarantee that you'll see as much as possible without feeling rushed. And if there's so much to do that we think you might want to extend your trip, we give you the scoop on the best places to stay, from budget B&Bs to luxury hotels. Also included are savvy insider tips, historical information, and special "finds" that most tourists and tour groups miss.
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You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go—they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. You'd be lost without us!
This invaluable guide contains all the information you need to get to and around some of the most popular destinations in England. Using London as a base, you can explore the college towns of Oxford and Cambridge; go on rambling walks or bike rides through the English countryside; or experience the mystery of Stonehenge, each in only a day!
We give you all the information you need to plan your day trip, from train schedules to parking information and the best places to pick up picnic supplies or enjoy a more leisurely meal. Detailed maps and suggested itineraries for each destination guarantee that you'll see as much as possible without feeling rushed. And if there's so much to do that we think you might want to extend your trip, we give you the scoop on the best places to stay, from budget B&Bs to luxury hotels. Also included are savvy insider tips, historical information, and special "finds" that most tourists and tour groups miss.
Customer Reviews:
Helps you figure out where you'd like to go.......2007-09-24
If you're wanting to plan a trip outside the city, this guide helps orient you to all the options. While I didn't use the suggestions on Hotels (too short a list)...it did help me decide where I wanted to go. If you've already decided on a destination, this book won't be that helpful.
Disappointing.......2007-01-18
I visit England frequently. I have an earlier edition of this book which I find to be very useful, even now. The new version leaves out a lot of the good places that were in the old book and it lacks credibility. I have a hard time taking any of it seriously when it tells me that an English pint is 16 ounces. Anyone who is serious about English beer knows that an English pint is 20 ounces.
Wonderful Day Trips !!!!.......2007-01-06
If you are looking for day trips outside of London, this book is great!!! Gives you everything you need to know.I would highly recommend it!
great resource.......2006-11-07
I studied this book trying to decide which day trips we should do. I loved the handy chart comparing the sites. It is very specific and helpful.
very good.......2006-08-12
Only 25 out trips; however there is a lot of information about them including when they are open and how to get there even by public transportation. It also notes how long it takes to get there and how long you have to walk from a train station. Maps of the 25 places are included, which look quite thorough. I plan to use it the next time I am in London early next year.
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This indispensable guide includes up-to-date information on Eurail pass options, train schedules, and fare and contact information. In addition, you'll find more than 90 day excursion options from 24 base cities as well as practical travel tips, sample rail-tour itineraries, and much more.
Customer Reviews:
Europe by Rail.......2007-09-25
Good book. Full of great information. I have rode the trains in Europe and never understood the system. Thanks to this book my next visit to Europe will be much easier.
Disappointing Book.......2007-08-31
I ordered this because I had found the 1997 edition of the Eurail Guide exceptionally well compiled and incisively useful, and secondly because I couldn't find a current edition of the Eurail Guide. In fact I thought this may have been the current edition I was was looking for. Sadly it is not, and it is not half the book the Eurail Guide was. For me this a rather dull book containing some useful information. I can't imaging me consulting very often.
Works Great.......2007-05-14
I graduated from a handheld labeler and have been very pleased with the Brother p-touch. The PC software enables much better formatting and design vs. standalone so I would recommend loading it. The most surprising plus I liked was the battery powered mobile capability - I find myself taking it back and forth to work and home so portability is great. You can make your labels as fancy or plain as you want and the amount of formatting options is certain to please just about anyone. I would highly recommend this model if you are looking for a good all around model. The tapes come in many sizes and colors so again, you have plenty of choices - tapes are expensive but you get a lot for the price.
Touring Europe by Train.......2007-03-18
A very good overview of train systems, costs and best ways to get where you want to go!
So far a good guide to Europe.......2007-02-02
I read this book for planning a trip to Europe. What impressed me at first is the introduction chapter that gave me some tricks and tips and necessary info how to use the EU railway network. The suggesting itinerary is also quite useful. The most confusing thing about the book is the train schedule. It might get obsolete. When I check on the Eurail website, the schedule looks quite different from what is in the book.
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These color-coded maps feature over 6,000 cities and towns, high speed lines, scenic routes and principal passenger and rail ferries. Features include:
· Passengers railways of Europe from the Atlantic to Moscow
· Over 6000 cities and towns
· High-speed lines colour coded
· Scenic routes highlighted
· Channel Tunnel and other major tunnels
· Principal passenger and rail ferries
· Main mountain ranges and rivers, tourist areas, holiday beaches, international
airports
· Europe 1 : 4 million scale
· Scandinavia at 1 : 6 million
· Central Europe enlarged to 1 : 1.5 million
· Compiled and updated by the staff of the famous Thomas Cook European
Timetable
Customer Reviews:
Excellent map of the Continent........2007-08-04
Folds out to be about 3 feet wide and 2.5 feet tall, with maps printed on both sides. The large orange box in the middle of the greater-Europe side (which shows the area printed on the opposite side of the map) is a bit annoying, but that seems to be the worst of it. The map's heavier-duty cover is built to not mutilate the paper map inside when folding and unfolding, and the legends are clear and helpful. The largest map goes from the northernmost part of Great Britain to the top of North Africa, and from the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, to the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey. Aside from the orange box, there is nothing obscuring the continent. Scandinavia is chopped off the top of the map and moved into a greater-detailed box out in the Atlantic; I fully agree with this choice and prefer it over other maps I have owned where showing Scandinavia in its correct spot means either a lesser-detailed map, or moving Italy to another side of the map. The detailed side of the map showing central Europe only runs from Dover, UK, to Paris to Avignon, France, and Warsaw, Poland, to Belgrade, Serbia. It shows the rail relationships between these European cities and most stops in-between: Dover, UK; Paris; Turin; Milan; Munich; Brussels; Cologne; Berlin; Vienna; Budapest; Warsaw; and Prague. The detailed map covers the heartland of where most American travelers go in Europe, and shows definitively how to travel to other popular destinations, such as Madrid, Rome, Athens, London, Moscow, and Copenhagen. Either side of the map is great for posting on a wall, and the well-marked scenic rail routes make it easy to plan a train ride. Also simply excellent as a general-purpose map of Europe, and superior in this respect to road maps of the Continent.
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This rail-traveler's companion provides all the information necessary to tour Great Britain by train. Up-to-date information on fares, schedules, and pass options is complemented by detailed day excursions from London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Cardiff to more than 40 points of interest including Cambridge, Dover, and St. Andrews.
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An essential tool for anyone planning a rail journey through Europe, this map shows all of the train routes in Europe and North Africa, as well as bus routes where there are no trains and major ferry routes. Using our unique, patented pictograms the map gives information on the timing and frequency of trains and trip length for all major destinations. For example, from the map one can see that there is one train every day, and three that run most days, from London to Aberdeen and that the trip takes 10 hours. The departure times are also indicated. The detailed legend is in English, French, German, Swedish and Japanese. Scale 1:4,125,000.
Customer Reviews:
Rail Map of Europe...not so helpful.......2007-05-21
This map did not provide me with th information I needed to plan a rail trip in Europe. It was very general and did not provide any references to obtain specific information on train schedules.
Rail Map of Europe.......2006-09-14
Map is fine unless your going to Eastern Europe, which is completely masked by an inset of Sweden and Finland. Apparently Publisher does not plan to go east anytime soon.
Great for the 2/3 of Europe it shows.......2006-01-23
This map shows the routes and relative frequency for trains, ferries and even some bus routes between major and minor destinations in western and southern Europe, including hundreds point-to-point travel times and even what hours those trains usually leave. There are a few cities shown as floating a bit off of the nearest train line even though trains do actually run there (Toledo, Spain and Assisi, Italy for example) and that's a bit confusing, but the map is generally helpful. Their inset close-up map of Switzerland is nice.
There's one big problem: they've dropped an inset map of northern Scandinavia right over the top of northeastern Europe! That's great for the hordes of tourists planning a boat tour of Lapland (?!) but as a result, there's little to no information here about the Czech Republic, Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine or European Russia. Everything from Hungary/Romania and south is shown, clear to Istanbul and a detailed ferry map for the Greek Islands, and that's nice -- but people like me headed through central Europe to Moscow are out of luck. Other train maps do exist that show the whole continent. (Sorry, can't remember the brand of that one, spotted it in a bookstore this month.)
Customer Reviews:
Disappointment in a microcosmos.......2006-08-09
Of course far from his masterworks, this novel is still better than most which plague the bestsellers lists today. It is one of the first novels written by Greene, on of which he calls "entertainments", to distinguish them from his more serious novels. Nevertheless, here in an early work his recurrent subjects loom already: hope and regret; the moral loneliness of each individual; the inevitability of fate; the consciousness, or lack of it, of good and evil.
A group of people are travelling from Ostende (Belgium) to Istanbul, each one with their fears or illusions. During the long way they meet and interact, love and forget each other. Carleton Myatt, a young Jewish merchant, is on his way to solve a problematic business situation with his employees in Turkey. During the trip he meets and seduces (through kindness and sacrifice) a young starlet of nightclubs who only dreams of love and welfare. Dr. Czinner (sinner?) a socialist revolutionary from Yugoslavia, is on the same train bound for Belgrade, but he is discovered and harassed by Mabel Warren, a British, alcoholic and lesbian journalist. The interaction between the characters creates an increasing tension which is only resolved, for good or evil, when each one of them meets his or her particular fate. Foremost is the heartbreaking story of the young dancer, who loses love in the middle of a snowstorm and political intrigue of which she understands nothing. In this book, Greene lets us see the great qualities that would later lead him to write his great novels.
Not Greene's best work.......2006-02-23
I have enjoyed a number of Greene's novels, but was disappointed with Orient Express. For a better read and more compelling characters, I recommend Greene's later work including The Quite American, The Comedians or even The Heart of the Matter.
Train Wreck.......2006-02-08
I find Graham Greene to be almost unreadable. I know that this is going to be considered near blasphemous, since literary critics have heaped such praise upon him and so many reviewers here have done likewise.
However, in a word, I find him depressing. His characters suffer from interminable analysis of their every thought and action. The larger story is merely a vehicle for these internal monologues that, frankly, I don't find particularly insightful or interesting. It was V. S. Pritchett who first remarked about Greene's 'perverse and morbid tendencies'. While Greene is no doubt highly intelligent and capable of a very high level of writing, the end result, for me, is something very unpleasant.
I first read 'The Heart Of The Matter'. God, what an endlessly depressing scene! Nor was there any particular character I could sympathize with or even care about. In spite of my negative reaction to this highly praised work, I thought I would give him another try with 'Orient Express' (a.k.a., 'Stamboul Train'), thinking that in this 'entertainment' as Greene called it I would actually be, well, entertained. Instead, I get a trainload of depressing characters whose every thought is scrutinized to an excruciating degree.
Example (from Myatt's suspicions about his business dealings):
'It was odd. He had chosen the samples with particular care. It was natural of course that even Stein's currants should not all be inferior, but when so much was suspected, a further suspicion was easy. Suppose, for example, Mr. Eckman had been doing a little trade on his own account, had allowed Stein some of the firm's consignment of currants, in order temporarily to raise the quality, had, on the grounds of that improved quality, indeed, induced Moults' to bid for the business. Mr. Eckman must be having uneasy moments now, turning up the time-table, looking at his watch, thinking that half Myatt's journey was over. Tomorrow, he thought, I will send a telegram and put Joyce in charge; Mr. Eckman shall have a month's holiday. Joyce will keep an eye on the books, and he pictured the scurrying to and fro, as in an ants' nest agitated by a man's foot, a telephone call from Eckman to Stein or from Stein to Eckman, a taxi ordered here and dismissed there, a lunch for once without wine, and then the steep office steps and at the top of them the faithful rather stupid Joyce keeping his eye upon the books. And all the time, at the modern flat, Mrs. Eckman would sit on her steel sofa knitting baby clothes for the Anglican mission, and the great dingy Bible, Mr. Eckman's first deception, would gather dust on its unturned leaf.'
Lord have mercy. This stuff is like fingernails on a chalkboard!
William Golding called Green 'the ultimate twentieth-century chronicler of consciousness and anxiety'. This does not, however, make for entertaining reading. Greene's writing is an examination of the human condition totally devoid of lightness, humor (at least as I understand the word) or romance. His characters are an unpleasant, unhappy bunch.
Ultimately all his writing reveals is the real Graham Greene.
Everyday existence found at the bottom of suitcase.......2005-01-07
ORIENT EXPRESS differentiates from other Graham Greene's works, which are normally considered literary fiction of a serious writer, in its entertaining nature. It reads like an adventurous story whose every little detail exuded demands one's undivided attention in order to piece it all together. As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople, the driven lives of several of its passengers become bound together in a fateful interlock. The curious skein of characters include a beautiful chorus girl enroute to a performance, a rich Jewish businessman bound for a business deal, a mysterious, sinister-looking but kind doctor returning to his native Belgrade after being fugitive for five years, a cunning murderous burglar who had fled a crime, and a spiteful journalist who contrived to make the headline story.
Given the nature of these various characters and a backdrop that constitutes to a curious sense of suspension in a confined, onrushing train, ORIENT EXPRESS, though a less literary work, does not fail to combine the exotic and the romantic with the sordid and the banal. These passengers, who have little or nothing in common with one another that they will probably never overlap have they not been assigned in the same car, retain their own life drama, conditions and secrets under the changing skies. The meanness of everyday existence is found at the bottom of every suitcase, and has in fact been packed along with everything else.
It doesn't seem obvious at first that ORIENT EXPRESS bespeaks self-sacrifice and betrayal. It is the usual case when people are far from home and routine that they will stair to make an unwonted exertion of the spirit or the will. The book, though its contrariety of style to Greene's other works, turns out to be a useful if not fortunate failure in containing the themes of self-sacrifice and betrayal. It is almost unexpected that the train, the passengers, and the direction to which the train steered symbolize a time period and the revolution.
A first-class journey through "Greeneland.".......2004-10-29
Originally published in 1933 as the Nazi Party was preparing to take power, Penguin Classics recently reissued a new, centenial edition of Graham Greene's classic novel of romance and betrayal, ORIENT EXPRESS, on the 100th anniversary of his birth. While the Orient Express rolls across Europe, from Ostend to Constantinople, Greene's entertaining novel follows the action inside the train. The cast of characters include Coral Musker, a beautiful showgirl; Dr. Czinner, a Communist political exile traveling ingognito; Mabel Warren, an alcoholic journalist; Josef Grunlich, a murderous burglar; and the controversial character (or perhaps more accurately, caricature), Carleton Myatt, a rich, Jewish businessman. While ORIENT EXPRESS probably does not rise to the standards set by some of Greene's other novels (e.g., THE END OF THE AFFAIR; TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT; THE POWER AND THE GLORY), it is nevertheless an entertaining minor novel.
G. Merritt
Book Description
Independent Travellers Europe by Rail has drawn on the train travel expertise of Thomas Cook, publishers of the European Timetable since 1873, to devise a menu of connected rail journeys that take in the best that Europe has to offer. No world region contains so many varied and independent nations as Europe. Its well-integrated rail system and the cheapness of international railpasses make the continent easy to explore. Independent Travellers Europe by Rail comes with plenty of recommendations on accommodation, eating and sightseeing to make your travel budget go a long way.
Customer Reviews:
British Rail Guide.......2007-01-12
This is a great guide that my family has utilized (previous editions)
on two vacations to London to plan day rail trips to Cambridge, Hampton Court, Greenwich, Windsor and Portsmouth. Gives rail information along
with sightseeing information on about 30-40 cities in the UK. Also, gives
guidance on rail passes and train schedules/timetable. Keep in mind in London there are eight stations which service various outlying towns/cities ( versus two in Manhattan )- the book has alot of good information on the logistics of the London rail system that fans out across Britain.
It also covers Scotland and Wales.
train travel in Britain.......2006-07-05
This book covers rail and ferry connections. There is a detailed map of the rail system in Great Britain, making it very easy for me to plan rail travel to different cities in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales). The ferry routes from Great Britain to Ireland and the islands of Scotland are also shown. The book describes many cities with points of interest, restaurants, market places, and general information. The different kinds of Britrail passes are described with schedules for connecting ferries and trains. The are sample rail fares between cities, and an Appendix which lists things like public holidays, passport information, and connections to Eurail. The book starts with arriving in Great Britain, what to expect, how to connect from airports to train systems. I plan to take this book with me on my trip in the fall. This is my first trip and I picked a great book to use!
Book Description
Marion Schreiber's gripping book about the only Nazi death train in World War II to be ambushed draws on private documents, photographs, archive material, and police reports, as well as original research, including interviews with the surviving escapees. One day in April, 1943, resistance fighter Youra Livchitz, a young doctor, discovered the departure date of the next transport train and recruited two school friends to pull off one of the most daring rescues of the entire war. Equipped with only three pairs of pliers, a hurricane lamp covered in red paper, and a single pistol, the men ambushed the train, which was transporting 1,618 Jews to Auschwitz. These three lone men freed seventeen men and women before the German guards opened fire. Miraculously, by the time the convoy had reached the German border another 225 prisoners had managed to escape unharmed and found shelter with the locals. In a testament to the solidarity of the Belgians, no one was betrayed. No one, that is, except the three young rescuers, who were turned in by a double agent, imprisoned, and killed. Like Schindler's List, The Twentieth Train creates a vivid, moving portrait of heroism under impossible circumstances.
Customer Reviews:
The Twentieth Train.......2006-11-06
A fascinating story of University students who were inspired to create the circle of friends and then others to resist against the Nazi oppression in Brussels and Belgium during the Second World War. It was filled with facts of the bravery of so many. The genesis of the students from the Free University of Brussels having joined before the war into the group, Le Cercle du Libre Examen, were able to save numerous Jews and others from the Holocaust. Well worth the reading.
Young Heros....A fascinating story of courage.......2004-12-14
Reading this book renews your faith in mankind. In this book there are many stories of people who resisted the Nazis and the thugs and gangsters who supported and collaberated with the Nazis.
The book details the methods use to steal the property of the Jews before they were shipped to their death. How the Nazis lied and convinced most of the deportees that they were being transported to a workers paridise. It also shows how people cooperated with the Germans or paid or used influence to have their names removed from the list of Jewish deportees only to betrayed at the end.
The book tells in detail how famlies were arrested and taken to a temporary holding camp waiting until a full train load of people had been collected and then sent to the death camps.
Then, a group of young people each decide to do something to save lives. With no support from the allies or the underground they faced the Germans face to face and won.
Their story of individual courage is fasinating. It clearly shows that there were many, many more courageous people in Belguim than there were Nazi collaberators.
I loved this book. My copy of the book has been passed to at least 10 people so far. All the reactions have been the same; wonderful admiration of the courageous young heros.
The Twentieth Train.......2004-10-17
The Twentieth Train: The True Story of the Ambush of the Death Train to Auschwitz by Marion Schreiber is a true account of rescue in Belgium. After the Nazi invasion of Belgium in May of 1940, a camp was set up in Malines (or Mechelen in Flemish) for captured Jews. Their ultimate destination was Auschwitz, but a minimum quota of prisoners was required to fill a convoy, hence Malines, the collecting area. Tragically, there would be twenty-eight Belgian convoys to Auschwitz before the end of the war, but Marion Schreiber tells the little-known story of the ambush of the twentieth convoy. Executed entirely by three young men independent of the Belgian Resistance movement, the operation managed to free over 240 Jewish prisoners before the train reached Auschwitz. Of the rescuers, however, only one survived capture and death.
Encompassing more than just the rescue operation, The Twentieth Train explores pre-war Belgium thorougly in much of the book. I enjoyed learning about this country's history as well as its amazing story of courage and rescue in World War II.
Book Description
The latest edition of our map aims to combine a listing of the major tourist attractions of Great Britain and Ireland with a clear representation of the routes operated by the British train operating companies (TOCs) and the railways of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, as well as indicating the locations of the principal tourist and heritage lines.
This completely revised and updated edition includes:
· All Passengers railways of Great Britain and Ireland
· Scale of main map 1 : 1750,000
· Scotland and Ireland 1 : 1 million
· Color-coded Train Operating Companies’ routes
· London area enlargenment
· London underground map
· Major heritage and tourist railways
· Principal ferry routes and airports
· Scenic routes highlightes
· Fully updated by the staff of the famous Thomas Cook European
Timetable
Tourist Information Guide
· Tourist Information Guide for 200 destinations
· Major tourist attractions listed
· Telephone numbers of Tourist Information Offices
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- Frommer's Tuscany & Umbria's Best-Loved Driving Tours (Best Loved Driving Tours)
- Frommer's Vancouver & Victoria 2007: With coverage of Whistler (Frommer's Complete)
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- Fundamentals of Financial Management (with Thomson ONE - Business School Edition)
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