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You want the world? And you want it now? No problem! Our Everywhere Box gives you just what you desire. We've put together a comprehensive collection of our guides in a box that will look splendid on a desk, on a shelf and, of course, as a gift. With an individual product value of over £166, you'll be saving more than 25%.Here's what you'll get:. Custom-made box embossed in fluorescent orange script. A set of 4 indestructible printed Tyvek® lu...

Update of Glasgow Companion (978-1-910023-04-4). The 50 entries show just some of what Glasgow has to offer, glorious parks, beautiful architecture, great food and drink, and a notably charming and friendly populace. Among the highlights: unchanged 1960s pub, The Doublet, art deco restaurant and oyster bar, Rogano, the excellent record shop, Monorail, and perhaps inevitably a fish and chip shop - albeit one with an opera-singing proprietor.

Update of Eating Queens (978-1-910023-44-0). When Disney unveiled "It's a Small World, " for the UNICEF pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing, Queens, it was perhaps their most annoying creation to date, but also the most prophetic. Fifty years later, the borough of Queens is one of the most ethnically diverse corners of the world, with nearly fifty percent of its residents foreign born. It is a land of opportunity - not only for trans...

Update of An Edinburgh Companion (978-1-910023-39-6). Beautiful though it surely is, Scotland's capital has appeal that extends far beyond its elegant façade. Our guide documents wanderings off the well-worn path of the Royal Mile, charting bookshops and butchers, pubs and bakeries, art galleries and gardens. An Edinburgh Companion uncovers the unexpected as well as relishing the traditional, ensuring a trip that goes to the heart of this grea...

Informed by on-the-ground research, Herb Lester's handy, folded guides uncover what makes a city special - its most distinctive shops, restaurants, cafés, bars, museums and galleries, whether unmissable old favourites, exciting new arrivals or overlooked treasures. Each entry comes with its own brief description, and a basic map helps the reader get their bearings and make plans. Reykjavik is unlike other cities. Its 120, 000 inhabitants susta...

Informed by on-the-ground research, Herb Lester's handy, folded guides uncover what makes a city special - its most distinctive shops, restaurants, cafés, bars, museums and galleries, whether unmissable old favourites, exciting new arrivals or overlooked treasures. Each entry comes with its own brief description, and a basic map helps the reader get their bearings and make plans.This is an ideal companion to the Texas state capitol, well-verse...

From outlets in railway arches and corner shops, busy market stalls and stately emporia, sweets, treats, meats, cheese and spices are packaged and sold to consumers ever more demanding, more sophisticated and more diverse. This guide offers a selection (it can only be that) of the best and most interesting food and drink shops in London. It takes in nascent charcuteries and brewers, cheese shops, butchers and fishmongers, Iranian, Italian, Spa...

A set of Italian, French and Spanish phrase books for use in restaurants. Each one is the size of a credit card, with enough information to help you navigate a tricky menu. They're small and discreet, to avoid the embarrassment of putting a huge book on the table. Armed with these guides, vegetarians can order without fear of unwittingly eating flesh and hardened fans of offal will be able to identify every last chewy, wobbly cut on the menu. ...

Milan hides its greatest assets, they sit behind walls, through courtyards, up a flight of stairs - and this guide will take you to them. Away from the towering Duomo and Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II with its rollcall of glamorous global brands are backstreet trattorias, a botanical garden and specialist shops of all stripes. Walk a little further for a Futurist cocktail bar, second-hand bookshops, house museums and extraordinary private art ...

No visitor to this Basque city is likely to miss the stunning Guggenheim museum and nor should they, but our guide digs deeper: uncovering wonderful food, traditional shops and diverse cultural attractions. Alongside stunning modern architecture - Gehry's Guggenheim, a metro system with stations designed by Norman Foster, Phillipe Starck's reinvention of a wine warehouse into cultural space - there are dozens of tiny bars vying to serve the mo...

This guide comprises 40 spots that all family members will enjoy: places to eat, museums, shops, parks and other sights. There's the bridge from Madeline, gallons of chocolate mousse, and stinky cheese that may bring squeals of delight or of horror. These entries are tried, tested and guaranteed both adult and child-friendly. Paris En Famille is written by Yolanda Edwards, based on many trips in the company of her daughter and husband, which a...

Allow us to introduce you to our Amsterdam, a beautiful city rising out of murky waters, a place untrammelled by stag parties or red-eyed tourists, where small businesses old and new can rely on the patronage of an open-minded population. There are 43 entries on this map, from a stall selling fresh herring to a cat museum, shops specialising in movie memorabilia, records, vintage clothing and artists materials. There are cafés, bars and restau...

Here is the essential companion for those in search of la dolce vita. The itinerary includes good food, strong coffee, interesting shops and plenty of strolling the city's beautiful streets. There are clothes shops, restaurants, a cemetery and galleries and special sections on ice cream and fountains.

This is a guide to the New York you've always wanted to see but feared might have disappeared for good. It depicts a city of Edward Hopper diners and down-at-heel dive bars, overstocked grocery stores and mountainous pastrami sandwiches. From Patsy's Pizzeria in Harlem, to the Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Chinatown, taking in along the way Katz's, the "21" Club and McSorley's Old Ale House, in these long-established Manhattan businesses, the city's c...

Have you heard? Brooklyn is not merely a brand name, a word signifying le dernier cri in youth culture, it's also a place to live. And that means a place to have a drink. There are dozens of neighbourhoods, each with a particular character, and innumerable pubs, taverns, saloons and lounges in many different flavours. Here are bars old and new for any temper, from highfalutin to homely, tranquil to raucous. A saloon for beachcombers, one for p...

This guide explores the world's most exciting city at one of its creative peaks. By tracing the steps of influential rock band The Velvet Underground it explores a twilight world where rock'n'roll, art and fashion met, and from which reverberations are still felt. Perhaps the definitive New York group, during their brief existence the Velvet Underground lived, played and recorded around the city. In The Velvet Underground Map of New York for t...

There are 36 entries in the guide to the Swedish capital, incorporating our usual range of interests: good food and coffee, cultural pursuits and shops. There's Biologika Museet, a 19th-century natural history museum of staggering strangeness, rainwear from Stutterheim, salty caramel from Pärlans Konfektyr and intimate eating at Bakfickan.

It would take more than Seattle's notoriously rainy weather to dampen our ardour for this fine city. In this guide we explore coffee shops, bars, sushi, a joint to pick up a burger for $1.25 and a 19th-century novelty shop. There's also sculpture, video games and, of course, in one of America's most literate cities there are bookshops. In all, 42 great things to see and do, no matter the weather.

Few writers are as inextricably linked with a city as Raymond Chandler and Los Angeles. The neon-lit streets, mobbed-up joints and seedy rooming houses portrayed in his fiction were real places, familiar to Angelenos of the time, and in some cases recognisable today. This is a guide to the world of Raymond Chandler and his noble alter-ego, the private detective Philip Marlowe. It mixes locations from the books, the films and Chandler's persona...

Rare among the world's great cities, Paris has managed to hold onto many small, specialist shops. Places that combine function and expertise with charm and character. The guide is a survey of these small shops, old and new, taking in stationery, taxidermy, toys, cookware, rat traps, candles, and a great deal more.