Books published by Blue Guides

This easy-to-carry guide includes Genoa, San Remo, Savona, Portofino, the Cinque Terre, La Spezia and Lerici. Art historian, landscape architect and long-time Italy resident Paul Blanchard explores this beautiful region of fishing villages, coastal resorts and plunging mountain valleys, with a seafaring history and a fine culinary tradition, providing a fascinatingly detailed guide, with carefully chosen recommendations of hotels and restaurants.

This is the best-researched, best-presented, most comprehensive cultural guide to central Italy in the English language covering art, history, architecture and archaeology.

First edition in-depth coverage of this exceptional area of Italy.

Covers the art, history and architecture of some of the most famous towns and cities in Northern Italy, some of the most stunning scenery in Europe, and detailed sections on local food and drink. Full-colour throughout with detailed maps and diagrams. Includes Blue Guides Recommended dining and accommodation suggestions.

Covers mainland Greece, the cradle of western civilization. Includes information on developments in archaeology. Full-colour throughout with detailed maps and diagrams. Includes Blue Guides Recommended dining and accommodation suggestions.

Third in the Blue Guide new Literary Companion series, an anthology of excerpts from prose and poetry written in or about London, prefaced by brief biographical and contextual notes.

The short stories in this collection, from the tale of the idle young man dawdlingpleasantly in Venice to the Romanian villager meditating revenge on histormentor, draw on the author's experiences of life, love, sacrifice, betrayal andcourage, and reveal, as a recurring leitmotif, an indomitable will to survive.

This fast-paced crime story and lighthearted romantic comedy, set against a backdrop of Mediterranean scenery and fascist menace in Italy and Hungary between the wars, is Miklos Banffy at his best. Now published in English for the first time, translated by Thomas Sneddon.

A guide to the early history and archaeological sites of Turkey's Mediterranean coast, covering the ancient provinces of Lycia, Pamphylia, Cilicia and part of the Pisidia Heritage Trail. Included are Cnidus, site of Praxiteles' famous nude statue of Aphrodite; Myra and Xanthus and the rock tombs of Lycia; the city of Antalya; the ruins of Perge and Side; Alanya with its impressive walls; the aite of Selinus (where Trajan died); Silifke (where Frederick Barbarossa drowned); Tarsus (where St Paul was born) and the bay of Iskenderun, where Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia at the Battle of Issus. The guide ends at the Syrian border with the city of Antakya, ancient Antioch, near which St Simeon Stylites and other early Christian ascetics lived their lives on top of tall pillars.

A new addition to the series, following the popularity of the Blue Guide Italy Food Companion.

A visitor's handbook to the valley of the Greater Tarnava river in the heart of Transylvania.

Revised and updated, this latest edition of Blue Guide Jordan offers an in-depth exploration of this historically rich destination. The expert authors know every corner of the Hashemite Kingdom and offer detailed guidance to its many ancient sites, its desert forts, its crusader castles, wadis and campsites, as well as the energetic capital of Amman. Detailed maps and plans throughout.

The Black Sea, hostile and hospitable by turns, a land of towering mountain peaks, green tea plantations and thick forests, has always attracted civilisation to its shores: Hittites, Greeks and Romans, Seljuks and Ottomans, Georgians and Armenians, Genoese and Venetians, have all left their traces here. This scholarly and intrepid guide visits all the provinces of the Turkish Black Sea region, delving into their history and discovering all the present-day reasons for a traveller to go there. There are many.

This easy-to-carry guide includes Bologna, Parma, Modena, Piacenza, Ravenna, Rimini and the Po delta. Art historian, Italy resident and long-time Blue Guides author Alta Macadam explores this beautiful region of fine cities, splendid cuisine and long history, providing a fascinatingly detailed guide, with carefully chosen recommendations of hotels and restaurants.

This easy-to-carry guide includes all the main cities of this exceptionally rich region of Italy: Venice, Padua, Verona and Vicenza. Also included are the shores of Lake Garda, the peaks of the Dolomites and the wetlands of the Po Delta. Author Alta Macadam explores the history, art, architecture and landscape of this beautiful area, iincluding carefully researched recommendations of hotels and restaurants.

A travel guide to Turkey giving coverage to its artistic heritage, the Aegean and Mediterranean coastlines and considerable information on central and eastern Turkey. Practical information including travel advice, suggestions of where to stay and eat and opening times.

A detailed guide to the art, history and architecture of Paris. Full-colour throughout with detailed maps and diagrams. Includes Blue Guides Recommended dining and accommodation suggestions.

The tenth edition of this accessible, scholarly guide to the city of the Renaissance. An essential handbook for any traveller who wants to fully understand the development of Italian art history.

A Special Reprint of the 1st edition Blue Guide Romania (2000) with new author preface.

The 3rd edition with minor author amendments.

Fully updated new edition of a key Blue Guide, the guide of choice for experts and independent travelers.

Fully revised and updated new edition of this important Blue Guide, the only guide in the English language to focus exclusively on this region of Italy, as well as the tiny independent republic of San Marino.

No longer New York's "forgotten borough". Since Hurricane Sandy, Staten Island has been in the headlines, and this absorbing, readable guide explores the Island's past and present, its monuments, its open spaces, its maritime heritage and its memorable - often eccentric - characters, from Vanderbilts to vagrants to seventeen-year locusts.

Long-awaited new edition, with superb coverage of all the major monuments, Classical, Christian and Islamic, with details on how to get around, food and accommodation.

This completely re-written new edition of Blue Guide Crete focuses on the long history of the largest Greek island, from Minoan civilization to the present day.

This guide covers the major cities of Tuscany as well as its capital Florence; the cradle of the Renaissance. Full-colour throughout with detailed mapping and diagrams.