Expatriate Guides

A Hedonist's guide to New York

Destinations: New York, USA

Categories: 4-7 day trips, Barhopping & Drinking, Business Traveler, City, Clubbing & Party, Expatriate, Food & Dining, Luxury, Shopping, Sightseeing, Single, Top End, Weekend trips

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English, 113 pages, Ed 1st,  

PDF download: US$ 8.00

The world’s favourite city and arguably foremost truly global metropolis, New York is fast-paced and constantly changing. From the high-end chic restaurants in Midtown to the alternative underground bars of the Lower East Side, from the established grandeur of the Upper West Side to the unashamed wealth of ...  Show details

A Journey into Dorothy Parker's New York

Destinations: New York City, NY, USA

Categories: 1-2 week trips, 4-7 day trips, Arts, Backpacker, Business Traveler, City, Culture, Day trips, Expatriate, Honeymoon & Romance, Museums & Galleries, Pets & Travel with Pets, Senior Traveler, Sightseeing, Single, Student, Walks and Tours, Weekend trips, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 83 pages, Aug 2009,  

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Take a journey into the city of theaters, bars, and hotel rooms where Dorothy Parker sharpened her wit, polished her writing, and captured the edgy mood of her times. This eye-opening book explores her favorite salons and saloons, as well as her homes and offices (most of them still intact); charts her colorf...  Show details

A Journey into Flaubert's Normandy

Destinations: France

Categories: 1-2 week trips, 4-7 day trips, Arts, Backpacker, Business Traveler, Culture, Day trips, Expatriate, Gay & Lesbian, History, Honeymoon & Romance, Museums & Galleries, Senior Traveler, Sightseeing, Single, Student, Villages, Walks and Tours, Weekend trips, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 80 pages, Aug 2009,  

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Steeped in history and beguilingly beautiful, but also stiflingly closed-minded, 19th-century Normandy both inspired and appalled the French novelist Gustave Flaubert. This fascinating, richly illustrated book explored the writer's love-hate relationship with the region that featured so prominently in his con...  Show details

A Journey into Ireland's Literary Revival

Destinations: Ireland

Categories: 1-2 week trips, 4-7 day trips, Backpacker, Business Traveler, City, Culture, Day trips, Expatriate, Gay & Lesbian, History, Honeymoon & Romance, Nature, Senior Traveler, Sightseeing, Single, Student, Villages, Walks and Tours, Weekend trips, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 84 pages, Aug 2009,  

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From the 1890s until the 1920s, a great tide of literary invention swept Ireland. As the country struggled for political independence, the writers who formed the Irish Literary Revival created a new, authentically Irish literature. Some, such as Yeats, Synge, and Gregory, celebrated the mystical tradition of ...  Show details

A Journey into Matisse's South of France

Destinations: France

Categories: 1 month or more trips, 1-2 week trips, 4-7 day trips, Arts, Backpacker, Beach, Business Traveler, Children & Travel with Children, City, Culture, Day trips, Expatriate, Gay & Lesbian, History, Honeymoon & Romance, Museums & Galleries, Senior Traveler, Sightseeing, Single, Villages, Walks and Tours, Weekend trips, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 75 pages, Aug 2009,  

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This beautiful and fascinating book follows Henri Matisse on his journeys into the South of France, where he discovered the light and color that saturate his work. Part biography, part travel guide, it explores the painter's private life, artistic evolution, and relationships with the places that inspired him...  Show details

A Journey into Michelangelo's Rome

Destinations: Rome, Italy

Categories: 1-2 week trips, 4-7 day trips, Arts, Backpacker, Business Traveler, Children & Travel with Children, City, Culture, Day trips, Expatriate, History, Honeymoon & Romance, Museums & Galleries, Senior Traveler, Sightseeing, Single, Student, Walks and Tours, Weekend trips, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 89 pages, Aug 2009,  

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This fascinating volume explores the complex relationship between Michelangelo and the city he called home for most of his life. Lavishly illustrated and richly informative, it tells the story of Michelangelo's meteoric rise and artistic breakthroughs, of his tempestuous relations with powerful patrons, and o...  Show details

A Journey into Steinbeck's California

Destinations: California, USA

Categories: 1-2 week trips, 4-7 day trips, Arts, Backpacker, Business Traveler, Children & Travel with Children, Culture, Day trips, Expatriate, Gay & Lesbian, History, Honeymoon & Romance, Senior Traveler, Sightseeing, Student, Villages, Walks and Tours, Weekend trips, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 110 pages, Aug 2009,  

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Examines the relationship between this iconic American writer and the area he loved and that features so prominently in his work. This original and beautifully illustrated book explores the landscapes and townscapes of Salinas, Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel, and Los Gatos, examining not only how they influe...  Show details

A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England

Destinations: Massachusetts, USA

Categories: 1 month or more trips, 1-2 week trips, 4-7 day trips, Arts, Business Traveler, Children & Travel with Children, City, Culture, Day trips, Expatriate, Gay & Lesbian, History, Honeymoon & Romance, Museums & Galleries, Nature, Parks, Senior Traveler, Sightseeing, Student, Villages, Walks and Tours, Weekend trips, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 99 pages, Aug 2009,  

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From picturesque towns around the bustling city of Boston, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, and the other Transcendentalists revolutionized American ideas about the artistic, spiritual, and natural worlds. This fascinating and beautiful book examines the intertwined lives of these re...  Show details

A Nomad's Guide to Uzbekistan

Destinations: Uzbekistan

Categories: 1 month or more trips, 2-4 week trips, Backpacker, City, Expatriate, History, Low Budget, Mid Range, Mountain, Public Transport, Rail, Student, Trekking & Hiking, Villages, Work & Travel

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English, 46 pages, May 2009, Ed 2nd Edition,  

PDF download: US$ 5.00

This guide is a product of over two years living and working in Uzbekistan. A Nomad’s Guide to Uzbekistan supplies the traveler and resident of Uzbekistan with useful, practical information on a low budget. The guide specializes in transportation logistics, accommodation, eating establishments, tourist attr...  Show details

Amsterdam City Guide

Destinations: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Categories: Backpacker, Business Traveler, Children & Travel with Children, Expatriate, Gay & Lesbian, Honeymoon & Romance, Pets & Travel with Pets, Senior Traveler, Single, Student, Travelers with Disabilities, Women, Work & Travel

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English, 119 pages, Jun 2009, Ed juni 2009,  

PDF download: US$ 1.00

Written by the WritingTravellers Community, from the view of a local written. The most up-to-date guide book on the market....  Show details