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New guide book to a now peaceful Lebanon

Posted by bradttravel on 25 January 2012

Lebanon

Bradt’s Lebanon sets this now peaceful and increasingly popular destination within the context of its rich historical and religious background enabling visitors to travel with awareness and sensitivity.

Lebanon offers extraordinary diversity. Here, some of the oldest human settlements in the world at the Phoenician ports of Tyre, Sidon and Byblos sit alongside modern Beirut, popular for its cuisine, eclectic nightlife and mosaic of peoples. In Lebanon’s second city, Tripoli, busy medieval souks are watched over by a vast Crusader castle. Outside the city, snow-capped mountains and the lush Qadisha Valley with its snaking river and waterfalls provide entertainment for skiers and hikers, while the Mediterranean Sea draws sun and watersports enthusiasts.

The guide describes skiing opportunities and ski resorts in detail with coverage of trekking and hiking in the Qadisha Valley and Chouf Mountains, including the 275-mile Lebanon Mountain Trail (LMT).

A specialist in Lebanon and the Middle East, Paul Doyle has travelled extensively in the region as both writer and photographer.

 To request a review copy or for more details contact Debbie Hunter press@bradtguides.com

Tel +44 (0)1753 893444

 Title:                Lebanon                       Author: Paul Doyle

Publisher:        Bradt Travel Guides     Publication:     6th December 2011

Price:  

            £15.99                          ISBN:               9781841623702

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New guidebooks to South Africa and the Amazon pinpoint the must-see sights

Posted by bradttravel on 29 November 2011

Amazon Highlights and South Africa Highlights are the latest offerings in this new, full-colour guidebook series from
Bradt  written for those on organised tours. Its approach is unique, bringing together the country expertise of leading guidebook writers and the accommodation expertise of the top tour operators. The series helps readers with pre-departure planning – in deciding what they want from their tour– and provides an informative companion to take on the trip itself.
 
Philip Briggs lives and breathes Africa, and the collected wisdom of his years of research finds new focus on well-trodden ground in South Africa Highlights.  Attractions range from stately Cape Town with majestic Table Mountain, to the scenic winelands around Stellenbosch and the world-renowned Kruger National Park and adjacent private reserves. With hundreds of different national parks and reserves, Africa’s longest coastline and several of the region’s oldest and most vibrant towns, visitors are often dazzled and confused by the array of options.   

Roger Harris has been travelling to the Amazon region for nearly 20 years, documenting the area’s natural history.
The Amazon is the world’s biggest rainforest, falling within the confines of nine countries and luring millions of visitors. Trying to decide where to go is a challenge for any traveller. Should you visit the Iguaçu Falls in Brazil, or Peru’s Pongo de Manseriche? Should your base be in Manaus or Iquitos? Where can you see a giant otter or swim with pink dolphins? Amazon Highlights showcases the best of the region – example itineraries and ideal starting points, a selection of ‘tried and tested’ lodges, and a review of leading tour operators and tour guides.  

Title:  South Africa Highlights      Author: Philip Briggs 
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides     Publication: 17th November 2011
Price:  £15.99       ISBN:  9781841623689

Title:  Amazon Highlights       Author: Roger Harris
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides     Publication: 17th November 2011
Price:  £15.99       ISBN:  9781841623740

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First travel guide to focus entirely on Palestine

Posted by bradttravel on 29 November 2011

Palestine

With Palestine, Bradt once again breaks through boundaries to go where other publishers fear to tread. It is the first time an entire guide has been devoted solely to the region.

Bradt’s guide is for independent travellers who want to see beyond the conflict-focused reporting of the area and ethnic and religious stereotypes. It offers unparalleled detail on Palestinian culture, cuisine, wildlife, environment, history and politics. It takes travellers on a pilgrimage to the sites of Christ’s birth and burial, a stroll through Nablus’ bustling souk followed with a relaxing soak and smoke in the city’s traditional hammams.  It visits cosmopolitan Ramallah and its international arts centre.

The ‘Palestinian Territories’ of the West Bank and Gaza are featured along with the culturally Palestinian (Israeli Arab) enclaves found within Israel.

Sarah Irving first visited Palestine in 1996 and since 2001 has travelled between the UK and the West Bank. She has worked as a human rights observer, tour guide and independent writer.

Title:        Palestine
Author:       Sarah Irving
Publisher:    Bradt Travel Guides
Publication:  17th November 2011
Price:        £15.99
ISBN:  978184162 367 2

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Eccentric Cambridge – A Practical Guide

Posted by Editor on 19 October 2011

Eccentric CambridgeBen le Vay’s new Eccentric Cambridge commences with a caveat from the author, ‘ “Eccentric” carries no judgement or moral value, it just means not in the real centre… Bonkers, doolally, off-the-wall, barking, amusing, odd or crackers… those are judgements. Eccentricity is just a fact.’

That Cambridge is already a popular city for tourists keen to take a look at an old English university town is without doubt. Similarly, the recent Windsor, Middleton nuptials giving us the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have done no harm either.  However, Bradt’s new guide unearths many of the town’s less obvious, bizarre and scandalous aspects, whilst also providing important insights on how to pole a punt without looking like a complete prat!  From dotty Dons and what the colleges don’t want you to know, to hardy naked cyclists, bin-bound buskers, quirky pubs, wacky museums and weird walking tours, le Vay leads readers on merry and macabre jaunts around Cambridge’s curiosities.  As well as eating, shopping and staying eccentric, along with getting there in the first place, the guidebook offers a calendar of oddities to be explored throughout the year.  Though confessing only to A-levels at Cambridge Tech College, ‘I was far too thick/rebellious etc…’, Ben le Vay’s writing almost buzzes his new guide off the table with eccentric vibrations.

Benedict le Vay is a features editor on a leading British newspaper. He spends his spare time researching zany facts about the British and their way of life. He is also the author of Bradt’s Eccentric London and Eccentric Britain

Title:        Eccentric Cambridge
Author:       Benedict le Vay
Publisher:    Bradt Travel Guides
Publication:  10th November 2011
Price:        £9.99
ISBN:         978 1 84162 427 3

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Eccentric Oxford – A Practical Guide

Posted by Editor on 19 October 2011

Eccentric OxfordOxford is more than an academic hot house – though as author Ben le Vay admits, its shady college cloisters certainly hide more than a few eccentrics.  Eschewing trite clichés of ‘dreaming spires’ and ‘honeyed stone’ Bradt’s new Eccentric Oxford gives the lowdown on making out in a punt, ‘be careful where you put your pole…’,designates the sites where Bill ‘Slick Willy’ Clinton didn’t inhale, Jeffrey Archer was, or wasn’t, ‘at Oxford’, the four minute mile barrier was broken, and a melancholic Morse enjoyed a quiet pint.

Eccentric Oxford romps through the city’s oddities, which like the town, its population, and architecture, are both ancient and modern.  Oxford’s literary connections are impossible to obscure, from Hardy and his Wessex novels, via CS Lewis’s conversion to Christianity – on a motorcycle ride from the city, to the last piece of middle England’s earth occupied by JRR Tolkein – in a cemetery in north Oxford.  Great writers aside, from an initial calendar events that is odd in anybody’s book, to its analysis of converging ley lines of cosmic forces, seemingly lined up along Magdalen Road, Eccentric Oxford is an amusing and informative companion for any visitor.  Including walks, shops and practical travel tips to circumvent an eccentric traffic system, Eccentric Oxford blows away preconceptions of a city that’s much more than one half of the boat race.

Benedict le Vay is a features editor on a leading British newspaper. He spends his spare time researching zany facts about the British and their way of life. He is also the author of Bradt’s Eccentric London and Eccentric Britain.

Title:        Eccentric Oxford
Author:       Benedict le Vay
Publisher:    Bradt Travel Guides
Publication:  10th November 2011
Price:        £9.99
ISBN:         978 1 84162 426 6

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