Melbourne in the Countries, Regions & Cities series from Rough Guides; comprehensively detailed guidebooks specifically designed for independent travellers & serving a range of worldwide destinations. Widely recognised for their free editorial style, Rough Guide authors are allowed to express their personal opinions on a range of subjects. Although sometimes controversial, this editorial stance allows readers to experience more detailed & personal takes on each destination, a feature often more limited in other guidebooks. Cultural & historical nuances are explored in significant depth throughout the text & descriptions on the ambience of individual settings alongside personal recommendations, particularly in cities, are notably prevalent. Each Rough Guide in the Countries, Regions & Cities series has a similar layout. A ...

Melbourne in the Luxe city guides series, which are slim & small enough to fit easily in a pocket or handbag. Information is distilled from elite suggestions by city residents, specially selected for their style, knowledge & expertise. Luxe guides aim at the upper end of the market & subjectively edit to choose the very best recommendations for shopping, restaurants, leisure options & nightlife. Half day shopping & activity itineraries are suggested for you to mix & match your visit to suit your timetable. When folded close the cardboard guide slots into its own protective plastic frame. Vanity Fair magazine calls them ...

The definitive travel guides that make you feel like a local wherever you go. Monocle reports from around the globe. As its editors & correspondents dart from city to city, they get to know the best places to rest their heads, stretch their limbs, & kick back with a contact in a hard-to-find cocktail bar. That information is now available in The Monocle Travel Guide Series: a line-up of titles that speaks to readers in an informed but informal way about everything from architecture to art, late-night bars to earlymorning markets. Designed to be compact & collectable, these books go beyond the traditional tourist beats to make sure visitors get the best out of a city--no matter how short their stay. ...

Kolkata & West Benegal in the Footprint Focus Guides, which are targeted at cities, regions & countries worldwide that have no, or very limited, coverage from other publishers. Widely recognised for their reliability & independent writing style, Footprint Focus guides all have the same layout. Smaller than their sister Handbooks, the Focus guides are intended to streamline the information contained so that you have more of what you need, without losing Footprint ...

Melbourne & Victoria in the City Guide Series from Lonely Planet, profiling in comprehensive detail the history, major sights, best places to eat, nightlife, accommodation & shopping possibilities of an extensive range of cities worldwide. Frank & informal in style, the guides are renowned for their appeal to independent travellers & are written & researched by local authors. Each guide is divided into 11 main sections
- Getting Started, Background, Neighbourhoods, Shopping, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, The Arts, Sports & Activities, Gay & Lesbian, Sleeping & Day Trips & Excursions. The Background section details the history, arts, architecture, environment, media, fashion & government & politics of the city. An
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Melbourne on a double-sided, indexed map from Periplus.

Includes:: an overview of Greater Melbourne, an enlarged

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Pocket-sized city guide to Melbourne from Explore Australia, aimed at those seeking the more hidden & less-beaten paths of this Australian city. Written by writers who live there, the guide is divided into four main sections: Hit the Streets; Treasure Trove; Feeling Peckish?; & Night Owl; each dedicated to sights, shopping, food & entertainment respectively. Each entry has a full colour photograph with an honest & informal review, useful information such as addresses, telephone numbers & a small ...

Melbourne 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. ...

Melbourne & its region in a series of waterproof & tear-resistant maps of Australian cities & their environs, with each title combining a selection of maps: the central area, the suburbs, & the wider environs. The map of the central part, more diagrammatic in style than found in most tourist street plans, shows one way streets & main buildings, with its short index listing some accommodation & main places of interest. The map of the city with its suburbs has an index listing all the suburbs, while the maps of the environs have indexes of the localities & highlight places of interest. No geographical coordinates are shown on the maps. Also included are diagrams of highway connections to Australia ...

Melbourne & Region in a series of maps from Hema presenting Australia’s main cities with three maps: a detailed street plan of the central area, a road map of the city with its outer suburbs, plus a map of the wider surrounding region for out-of-town excursions. The Melbourne map
Includes::- A street plan of city centre highlighting locations of 56 places of interest, 14 theatres, 12 travel information centres & 38 hotels.
- A road map of Greater Melbourne at 1:115, 000 extending south to include the Mornington Peninsula with the French & Phillip Islands, west to Werribee, & north-west to Sunbury. The index lists locations with their postcodes.- Large, clear diagrams of Melbourne’s train & tram networks.
- A regional map at 1:360, 000 approx covering a wider area around the city extending out to Ballarat in the west & Seymour in the north. Both the suburban & the regional maps are indexed & show the road network indicating unsurfaced roads & tracks. Symbols mark roadside rest areas, campsites, accredited information centres, places of interest, etc. Topography is indicates by names of mountain ranges & selected peaks, plus rivers & lakes; national & state parks, conservation areas & reserves are all highlighted. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.


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