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Access | Blue | Bradt | Cadogan | Cicerone |
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Culture Shock | Slovakia | Eyewitness | Falcon | Fodor's |
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Fodors 'Best' | Fordor's 'Expoloring' | Fodor's Compass | Frommers | Fromer's 'Day by Day' |
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Footprint | Hidden | Insight | Insight Step by Step | Karen Brown |
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Knopf Guide | Knopf Mapguide | Let's Go | Lonely Planet Discover | Lonely Planet |
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Lonely Planet Encounter | Michelin Green | Michelin Red | Moon | Moon spotlight |
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National Geographic | Open Road | Rick Steves | Rough | Time Out |
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Lonely Planet
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Probably the best known brand and quite possibly the largest network of freelance contributers. Excellant nitty gritty travel information although they have become a bit formulaic as they expand to cover the globe. They have and excellant website accompanyment to their guides which really helps with current information. They cover a broad range of accommodations from budget to moderately expensive.
Shoestring guides cover larger areas & are budget only.
Lonely Planet Discover
For some folks, a guide is about in-depth information and having plenty of information. That’s what you’ll find in our classic country guides.But others would rather focus time and planning on those can’t-miss experiences.
Discover guides highlight the best a country has to offer while still providing the authentic and memorable experience travelers expect from us. They’re in full color, with inspiring photography.
Knopf Mapguides
This series looks like a book but it's really fold-out mini maps. It's organized by the major neighborhoods of London. You fold out each section and see the highlights of that area.foldout maps and concise info about cultural sites, restaurants, shopping & hotels.
Knopf Guides
Beautiful and elegant is the only way to describe the Knopf Guides. Mixing elements of an upscale Michelin Green Guide, an Insight Guide and a great coffee table art book. Knopf is known for publishing high-quality art books, and this expertise has been carried over to producing a line of colorful art-oriented guidebooks that you will want to save as a keepsake of your trip long after you return home. They emphasize history, art and architecture. Hotel, restaurant, shopping and practical travel information is weak.
These guides are very portable and will work well as a reference for self-guided walking tours.
Insight Guides
The "National Geographic" of travel guides. Lots of color photos & descriptive text on things to see. Recently, the format changed and now is much more touring focused with maps and reference numbers. Justly famed for their photography
Many a trip has been inspired from a single photograph - a dreamers guide.
All lead with a short readable history and followed at the end with accomodation listing
Frommers Day by Day
Series appeals to those with little or no experience visiting a given destination. Beyond a simple offering of "how to spend three days in Rome," these books explain the significance of each recommended site in detail that is punctuated with vivid photography and historical references.
Frommers
From the original Europe On $5 A Day, to a contemporary travel publishing empire with dozens of global destinations. Frommers Guides have grown to represent reliable travel advice, whether traveling in Europe or anywhere on the planet. Frommers Guides contain user-friendly travel information that's accessible to every price range, experience level, and style of traveler. Frommer's entire publishing business has been purchased by Google in their relentless drive to be the single portal to the world. There are numerous subcategories :
Continuously published the most comprehensive cultural guides covering art, history, architecture and, where relevant, archaeology. These are extremely detailed guides , in-depth, practical, and updated from time to time, with a decent travel information section to help the traveller with the everyday details, Small print but clearly the most exhaustive series for in depth historical and cultural information.