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"Presents a travel guide to Central Europe, with recommendations for lodging, restaurants, events, tours, and sightseeing highlights, along with travel tips and cultural information."--

"Discover new places with handy road atlases from Collins. Up-to-date A4 paperback road atlas of Europe. Contains clear, large-scale, detailed road mapping, perfect for touring the Mediterranean, Iberian peninsula, Scandinavia and all European tourist destinations. Scale of main maps 1:1,000,000 (1 cm to 10 km / 1 inch to 16 miles). Main features Clear, easy to follow road maps at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Euroroutes and motorways are easily distinguished...

"Thanks to Europe's ever-expanding and improving rail network, there's never been a better time to explore this diverse continent by train. But with so much ground to cover, it can be difficult to know where to start - and that's where Europe by Train comes in. Compiled by a team of travel experts, our 50 hand-picked itineraries will kickstart your plans, showing you how to join the dots between Europe's must-see destinations and introducing you to...

"A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life-the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago-is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry,...

From partying at Oktoberfest in Munich to soaking up the Northern Lights in Iceland, this brand-new guide, filled with 500+ carefully curated musts, including epic and off-the-beaten path adventures, provides all the essential advice and information on what to see, do, eat, drink and brag about.

"The Rough Guide to the Top LGBTQ+ Friendly Places in Europe - the latest picture-packed addition to Rough Guides' Inspiration range - reveals 20 destinations that will enthuse and reward LGBTQ+ travelers in a brand-new, inspirational coffee-table book."--

"This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. Prior to 1680, Africa's economic and military strength enabled African elites to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers. This edition...

"The Celts were one of the most important population groups to spread across the ancient European continent. From 800BC to 1050AD their story is one of expanding power and influence followed by contraction and near extinction. Drawing on all possible sources of evidence, from archaeological remains of ancient Greece and Rome to surviving cultural influences, Dáithí Ó hÓgáin outlines the history of the people known as Celts. He follows the evolution...

"Welcome to Ukraine--home of the Lemurian Lake, the National Chernobyl Museum, and vast fields of grain! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversize scenic photos draw in readers as they learn about Ukraine's history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more! Maps, a timeline with photos, and a facts page that includes major statistics complement the text"--Provided by publisher.