Travel & Holiday Guides

The hospitality sector is one of the largest growing industries in the world. This is reflected in the growing number of academic courses available...

This guide covers the world's most dangerous travel destinations. Each destination has a concise, but detailed, historical background to the causes...

Which major UK retailer has the same name as Odysseus's dog in Greek mythology?In the original version of the Band Aid hit 'Do They Know It's Chris...

Main Street America is kicking up its heels--and you're invited tothe party! Goodbye sprawl-and-mall--hello downtown! Long-neglected towncenters a...

Events are increasingly used instrumentally to achieve goals of society such as cultural development, destination branding or economic development....

In this beautifully designed and richly illustrated book, Diane Eaton and Sheila Urbanek re-create Paul Kane’s heroic journey across Canada and bri...

A history of Warburton, Partington and Carrington.

This fascinating book of over 200 old photographs depicts people, scenes and events from everyday life in the villages of Countesthorpe, Willoughby...

Through the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in whic...

Open moors, deep valleys, ancient villages and roadways: the Peak District nowadays is often looked on as a 'playground' for walkers, climbers and ...

This intriguing book contains over 200 old pictures and a wealth of superbly presented facts, anecdotes and opinions on the way North Glasgow was. ...

With 200 images, selected from the archives, portraying the city in a bygone age, we embark on an intriguing pictorial journey around Newcastle upo...

Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century, and here Jeremy Black examines travel on the Continent, the so-called "Grand Tour". He c...

We live in a society that is bombarded by news of accidents, disasters and terrorist attacks. We are obsessed by the presence of death. It is commo...

From the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to...

We all need something to believe in, whether it's God, money -- or naked table tennis. But has anyone actually cracked the secret of how to live a ...

In the Lands of the Christians presents original translations from Arabic of four Christian and Muslim writers who visited Western Europe and Ameri...

Eighty years have passed since Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded the Turkish Republic out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and set it on the path of ...

This important book assesses the current state of disaster management in archives, libraries and museums in the UK and around the world, and provid...

A catalogue raisonné of the Mycenaean pictorial-style pottery in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The Mycenaean pictorial style, which...

A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southwestern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the ...

If you are lucky enough to find your place, you should never actually live in it, never make it your home. And never live with the man you think yo...

Best Easy Day Hikes Tucson includes concise descriptions and detailed maps for twenty easy-to-follow hikes in and around Tucson, Arizona. Discover ...