Dubai in the Wallpaper* City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper* magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper* City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

The fast-track guide for the smart traveller Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider`s checklist of all you need to know about the world`s most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we`ve done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars & hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores & sites, & the most enticing architecture & design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city`s landscape & the satisfaction you`ve seen all that you should. In short, these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer. ...

Dubai, Abu Dhabi & the UAE in the City & Regions series from Time Out; comprehensive guides to a range of cities & their surrounding regions & including some of the most detailed listings & directories of places to eat & drink & things to do & see. Time Out guides are strongly focussed on local entertainment & nightlife, in addition to principal sights & attractions, with expert local writers providing an encyclopaedic knowledge of each city. This unique quality has ensured that the guides have won a reputation for their accuracy & reliability. The surrounding region is also incorporated in some guides, with information on the principal attractions, sites, landscapes & the best way of exploring them. Each of the Time Out city & region guides has a similar layout, allowing visitors to explore their destination easily. An ...

Dubai & the rest of the United Arab Emirates is an extraordinary mixture of ancient Arabic culture & modern Western capitalism. The most opulent hotels in the world fight for attention with open tracts of desert that stretch, uninhabited, to the horizon. Hundreds of kilometres of sandy beaches, which run into the warm & clear waters of the Arabian Gulf, are only interrupted by desalination plants that create enough fresh water to keep acres of Dubai public gardens in luscious bloom. No expense has been spared to make Dubai a five-star paradise for up-market tourists looking for great food & drink, extraordinary duty free shopping, & all-year round sunshine. The Dubai city guide
Includes:: Full colour photography, using original imagery to give a real sense of the place Handy pull-out Dubai map Extensive area guides not only cover the sightseeing in Dubai, but also restaurants, bars & shops
- all plotted on maps handily located within the chapter Top 20 list of the must-see highlights Itineraries to help you plan your visit Critic`s choices pick out the best Dubai sights, experiences & cultural highlights
- at a glance All Dubai restaurants & bars have been visited & reviewed anonymously by critics who pay their own way Dubai hotels independently reviewed. The revamped Time Out Guides retain the independence & local expertise that the series is known for, while adding more features to help the visitor navigate the city. Whether you have an action-packed 24 hours or a leisurely week in which to take it all in, these guides are more essential than ever.


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Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year. Yet just sixty years ago Dubai's population scraped a living by picking dates, diving for pearls, or sailing in wooden dhows to trade with Iran & India. Dubai is everything the rest of the Arab world is not. Until recently it was the fastest-growing city in the world, with an economy whose growth outpaced China's while luring more tourists than all of India. The city has become a metaphor for the lush life, where the wealthy mingle in gilded splendour & luxury cars fill the streets, yet it is also beset by a backwash of bad design, environmental degradation & controversial labour practices. Dubai tells its unique story. ...

Dublin at 1:8, 500 is an indexed map with additional street plans & enlargements of popular regions. The publisher has chosen to concentrate on creating a map which will primarily be of use for a tourist navigating between main points of interest as opposed to stressing more detailed cartography. Motorways, main & minor roads are extremely clearly marked, with scenic routes detailed on a Dublin area route planning map which is also provided. The rail lines into Dublin & the airport, complete with its own plan, are shown. In keeping with the publisher ...

Dublin in a series of street plans from Rough Guides published on very light waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper, indexed, with recommendations for shopping, eating, drinking, & entertainment/nightlife. The plan is folded to only 9x 19cm when detached from its protective cover, & can be easily rolled or folded into smaller size without any damage or creases. On one side is a plan at 1:7, 100, extended on the reverse to cover the southern part of the city around the Ranelagh district. An enlargement shows central Dublin in much greater detail at 1:4, 800. The plans show the DART/ Lucas lines & stations, with bus routes line numbers shown along the streets. One way streets are indicated, along with car parks & taxi ranks. Famous buildings, cultural institutions, etc. are highlighted & named The plans are also annotated with colour-coded markers indicating publishers ...

Street mapping of Dublin showing one way streets, places of interest, museums, metro stations & hospitals. On the reverse information on public transport systems complete with plans, a regional map with major roads into Dublin, a map of Phoenix Park, a plan of Dublin airprot & a full street & classified index. ...

Edward Rutherfurd`s great Irish epic reveals the story of the people of Ireland through the focal point of the island`s capital city. The epic begins in pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce & powerful High Kings at Tara, with the tale of two lovers, the princely Conall & the ravishing Deirdre, whose travails echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn. From this stirring beginning, Rutherfurd takes the reader on a graphically realised journey through the centuries. Through the interlocking stories of a powerfully-imagined cast of characters
- druids & chieftains, monks & smugglers, merchants & mercenaries, noblewomen, rebels & cowards
- we see Ireland through the lens of its greatest city.

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This book is a visual celebration of old & new Dublin. Leading photographer Paul Barker shows us the graceful streets, squares & monuments of Georgian Dublin, now restored to their former elegance. He takes us to Dublin Castle & Trinity College, to the Abbey & Gate theatres, the Leopardstown Races & the Dublin Horse Show
- &, of course to the pubs that have been at the centre of Dublin's social life for centuries, & remain so today. He reveals also the confident & affluent modern Dublin, including the rejuvenated neighbourhood of Temple Bar on the south bank of the Liffey (Dublin's 'left bank') with its art galleries, bars, restaurants, clubs & shops.
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