GERMAN LANGUAGE edition of a guide to the fifth section of the Danube Cycle Route: a 1400km trail from Belgrade to the Black Sea with detailed mapping showing the route & its variants & extensive information conveyed by symbols, indicating road surface, campsites & other accommodation, repair workshops, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. A list of various types of accommodation facilities is included.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: ALL THE TEXT IN THIS TITLE IS GERMAN ONLY. MAP LEGEND

Includes:: ENGLISH, please see our sample image, & the information provided on the maps is sufficient to use this title without any knowledge of German, particularly in the absence of a similar product in English from other publishers. The publishers, Verlag Esterbauer, have informed us that the English language version of this guide, originally planned for 2010, has now been postponed to mid-2012 at the earliest. Until then we are offering on our website this GERMAN edition, or the alternative guide in English covering the whole section from Budapest to the Black Sea. About the series: All the titles have been meticulously researched & are highly regarded in their native Germany. Most titles, as indicated in their individual descriptions, also include a separate section listing selected accommodation, from hotels to campsites, youth hostels & rooms in private houses, all with addresses, telephone numbers & price range. Information on towns along each route

Includes:: a list of places of interest, with opening hours, etc. Several of the guides also have street plans.




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The first of two volumes covering the Danube Cycle Route, this guide describes cycling the first half of the 1271km Danube river from its source in the Black Forest to Budapest. The main route in this volume has been broken into 29 stages, averaging 44km per stage. A fit cyclist, cycling an average of 90km per day should be able to complete the route in a fortnight. Suitable for all levels of cyclist, on all types of bike, the route is on a gentle downhill gradient, is mostly off-road & uses well-surfaced & dedicated cycle tracks or quiet country roads. With guidance on the plentiful accommodation & places to stop for food & drink en route. The Danube Cycle Way has become the most popular holiday cycle touring route in mainland Europe. Leading through Germany, Austria, Slovakia & Hungary, the route visits spectacular gorges, hilltop castles, vineyard-clad hillsides & medieval towns. ...

One of the titles in a series of small, double-sided maps showing each route in sections. An overprint highlights the route, indicating sections shared with motorized traffic, intermediate distances, & stretches with poor road surface, as well as recommended overnight stops, campsites, youth hostels, & sites worth visiting. The maps include street plans of selected towns & descriptions, in German only, of the main places of interest along the route. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Map legend is in German only. Most titles come with a separate small booklet giving addresses & telephone numbers of tourist information centres, cycle repair facilities, & accommodation. Only the titles listed here are still available from the initial much longer list published by Kompass. ...

One of the titles in a series of small, double-sided maps showing each route in sections. An overprint highlights the route, indicating sections shared with motorized traffic, intermediate distances, & stretches with poor road surface, as well as recommended overnight stops, campsites, youth hostels, & sites worth visiting. The maps include street plans of selected towns & descriptions, in German only, of the main places of interest along the route. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Map legend is in German only. Most titles come with a separate small booklet giving addresses & telephone numbers of tourist information centres, cycle repair facilities, & accommodation. Only the titles listed here are still available from the initial much longer list published by Kompass. ...

Danube Cycle Trail: Passau
- Eferding
- Sauwald – Schärding area of central Austria presented at 1:50, 000 in a series of contoured

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Danube-Auen NP
- Lobau
- Hainburg
- Marchegg
- Gänserdorf
- Bruck a.d. Leitha area extending eastwards from Vienna




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For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians & warriors, they saw off -- through luck, guile & sheer mulishness -- any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe & Germany & interfered everywhere -- indeed the history of Europe hardly makes sense without them. Simon Winder's extremely funny new book plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages & a guinea-pig village. Danubia is full of music, piracy, religion & fighting. It is the history of a dynasty, but it is at least as much about the people they ruled, who spoke many different languages, lived in a vast range of landscapes, believed in many rival gods & often showed a marked ingratitude towards their oddball ruler in Vienna. Readers who discovered Simon Winder's genius for telling wonderful stories of middle Europe with Germania will be delighted by the eccentric & fascinating stories of the Habsburgs & their world. ...

For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians & warriors, they saw off
- through luck, guile & sheer mulishness
- any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe & Germany & interfered everywhere
- indeed the history of Europe hardly makes sense without them. Simon Winder`s extremely funny new book plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages & a guinea-pig village. Danubia is full of music, piracy, religion & fighting. It is the history of a dynasty, but it is at least as much about the people they ruled, who spoke many different languages, lived in a vast range of landscapes, believed in many rival gods & often showed a marked ingratitude towards their oddball ruler in Vienna. Readers who discovered Simon Winder`s genius for telling wonderful stories of middle Europe with Germania will be delighted by the eccentric & fascinating stories of the Habsburgs & their world. Danubia was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013.


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Nick Danziger began his journey in June 1994, as newspapers & magazines throughout the land commemorated the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings & recalled the Allies` war aims (to ”afford assurance that all men in all lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear & want”). For the best part of a year, he lived among the homeless & unemployed in many of the ruined manufacturing & so-called ”no-go” areas of Engl&, Scotl&, Wales & Northern Irel&. With courage & sensitivity, he won the trust of the street children & shared the lives & heard the stories of hundreds of society`s outsiders. A powerful & disturbing documentary (with 48 pages of his own photographs) of life in Britain for a forgotten section of society in the mid-1990s, & a tribute to the resilience of individuals faced with overwhelming odds. ...

After walking & hitch-hiking through southern Turkey & the ayatollah`s Iran, Danziger entered Afghanistan illegally in the wake of a convoy of Chinese weapons & spent two months dodging Russian helicopter gunships with rebel guerillas. He was the first foreigner to cross from Pakistan into the closed western province of China since the revolution of 1949. Living & travelling with local people & pitting his wits against officialdom, Danziger broke barriers & crossed boundaries of all kinds. Written with engaging humour & zest for life, & illustrated with the authors own photographs & drawings. ...