Short and literary guide to Venice’s Lido, in the Blue Guides’ new Travel Monographs series.
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Comments on Blue Guide Literary Companions: Rome, London, Venice
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Entertaining anthologies of writing–extracts from novels, letter, diaries, poems, histories, guide books–about or set in the destination. Lively introductions to each excerpt make them a pleasure to browse, a mine of fascinating insights to enjoy at home or to supplement a guide book on site.
Comments on Blue Guide Hay-on-Wye
The only full guidebook treatment of this charming Welsh border town, famous for its second-hand bookstores and annual Book Festival.
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Comments on Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands
The result of five years of fresh research by author Nigel McGilchrist, and detailed editing by Michael Metcalfe and Heinrich Hall, this is the first full Blue Guide treatment of all the Greek Aegean islands in a single volume.
(And Nigel McGilchrist has published the full manuscript that he wrote for this book in twenty volumes as ‘McGilchrist’s Greek Islands’, an invaluable resource.)
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50 Sites that Explain the Classical World
Historian Charles Freeman’s beautifully-illustrated account of the evolution of the Classical World follows its development, mainly around the shores of the Mediterranean but with sites from as far afield as the sands of Syria and icy northern Britain.
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