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A fifth Guide, The Midlands, came out in the early 1980s. The first series of guides were produced as pocket-sized hardback books. [1] In 1981 the 'second revised edition' came in only three chapters; 3 North, 2 Midlands, 1 South and dropped the British Waterway Board affiliation.
Bradt Travel Guides is a publisher of travel guides founded in 1974 by Hilary Bradt and her husband George, who co-wrote the first Bradt Guide on a river barge on a tributary of the Amazon. [ 2 ] Since then Bradt has grown into a leading independent travel publisher, with growth particularly in the last decade.
Portrait of publisher John Murray III, 19th century. Murray's Handbooks for Travellers were travel guide books published in London by John Murray beginning in 1836. [1] The series covered tourist destinations in Europe and parts of Asia and northern Africa.
Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book for Travellers in Belgium, 1856 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1891 Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland, 1882. Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of London.
Books about the British royal family, from Prince Harry's memoir to a giant biography of QEII to a novel about an American becoming a princess.
David Gerald Hessayon OBE (born 1928) is a British author and botanist of Cypriot descent who is known for a best-selling series of paperback gardening manuals known as the "Expert Guides" under his title Dr. D. G. Hessayon.
Babylon by Bus (book) Begums, Thugs and White Mughals; Between the Woods and the Water; Beyond the Devil's Teeth; Beyond the Mexique Bay; The Bible in Spain; Black Lamb and Grey Falcon; Black Sea (book) Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart; Bollocks to Alton Towers; Brazil (Palin book) Brazilian Adventure; Bring Home the Revolution
Cook's Tourists' Handbooks were a series of travel guide books for tourists published in the 19th-20th centuries by Thomas Cook & Son of London. The firm's founder, Thomas Cook , produced his first handbook to England in the 1840s, later expanding to Europe, Near East, North Africa, and beyond.