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Philadelphia & the Pennsylvania Dutch Country Eyewitness travel guide from Dorling Kindersley is a lavishly illustrated book concerned with providing the visitor with detailed background information to sightseeing in the country & a broad cultural introduction. Popular historical buildings & museums are often described with cutaway diagrams allowing you to view ...
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The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Philadelphia & the Pennsylvania Dutch Country will lead you straight to the best attractions Philadelphia & the Pennsylvania Dutch Country has to offer. The guide

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unique cutaways, floorplans & reconstructions of Philadelphia`s stunning architecture, plus 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot. You`ll find detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants, bars & shops for all budgets in this fully updated & expanded guide, plus insider tips on everything from where to find the best markets & nightspots to great attractions for children. The uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Philadelphia & the Pennsylvania Dutch Country also

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in-depth coverage of all the unforgettable sights & comes complete with a free pull-out city map, clearly marked with sights from the guidebook & an easy-to-use street index. The map has detailed street views of all the key areas, plus there are transport maps & information on how to get around, & there`s even a chart showing the distances between major sights for walkers. The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Philadelphia & the Pennsylvania Dutch Country shows you what others only tell you.



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Laminated & waterproof map for visitors to Philadelphia, combining a street plan of the central part of the city with maps of the university area, Fairmount Park, & the outer suburbs. The main plan at 1:7, 000 covers the downtown area from the 30th Street Railway Station & the Schuylkill River to the Delaware River, extending north to the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site & south to Hawthorne district. The map shows subway stations, PHLASH Visitor Bus line with stops, one way streets & car parks, with selected hotels, main buildings & other places of interest prominently marked. On the reverse is a street plan at 1:12, 000 of the University City district, Fairmount Park area at 1:15, 000, plus a road map of the city’s outer suburbs at 1:125, 000. All the plans & the road map are indexed with lists of streets/localities, sights, parks, golf courses, etc. Top 30 main sights in the city & its environs are highlighted. Also included is a diagram of the public transport network, a map of USA showing states & time zones, & information on the city’s climate. ...
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Philadelphia in the Frommer's Day By Day series is a pocket-sized guide ideal for short trips, covering a variety of budgets. The best sights of each destination are listed in convenient full-day tours for one, two or three days such as: thematic tours for interests including art, architecture & history are described, allowing you to get the most out of your time; walking tours take you around each destination ...
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Journalist & Philadelphia native Karrie Gavin knows the best ways to experience the City of Brotherly Love, from exploring Wissahickon Park to sampling cheesesteaks, soft pretzels, & hoagies. Gavin

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Philadelphia in Pennsylvania on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. An inset shows downtown Philadelphia in greater detail. Communities covered by this map include Abington, Camden NJ, Cheltenham, Conshohocken, Glenolden, Jenkintown, Lansdowne, Palmyra NJ, Prospect Park, Westville NJ, & Yeadon.NEW STREET PLAN CARTOGRAPHY FROM RAND Mc NALLY: Rand Mc Nally are currently changing the cartography of their street plans to a more “ European” style. In many titles streets are now shown by parallel lines, providing a much clearer, easier to read presentation. Better use of colouring indicates different types of land use and/or institutions (parks, shopping centres, academic institutions, etc) &, in most titles, different administrative units. More streets are annotated with block numbers. Some new editions still retain the traditional American presentation of streets by a single line, but with more prominent marking for various institutions, facilities & places of interest. Our cartography sample indicates which style is used in this title.COVERAGE: Rand Mc Nally street plans cover cities with their outer suburbs, prominently highlighting principal traffic arteries & connecting main streets. Railway & subway stations are marked. To see the list of Rand Mc Nally street plans please click on the series link. ...
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Philadelphia Fire

In 1985 police bombed a West Philadelphia row house. Eleven people died and a fire started that destroyed sixty other houses. John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel.At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighbourhood and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event, a young boy seen running from the flames.One of Wideman`s most ambitious and celebrated works, Philadelphia Fire is about race, life and survival in urban America.
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In 1985 police bombed a West Philadelphia row house. Eleven people died & a fire started that destroyed sixty other houses. John Edgar Wideman brings these events & their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer & exile who returns to his old neighbourhood & who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event, a young boy seen running from the flames. One of Wideman`s most ambitious & celebrated works, Philadelphia Fire is about race, life & survival in urban America.

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Stanfords was established in 1853 and opened their iconic Covent Garden flagship store in 1901. They have become the top retailer of maps, travel books and accessories in the UK and arguably offer the largest selection of maps and travel books worldwide. Famous names such as Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Ranulph Fiennes and Michael Palin have purchased from Stanfords. They now have a shop in Bristol and both stores together with other venues operate a calendar of events including talks, book signings and exhibitions. As a specialist map retailer, the map selection is comprehensive and includes road maps, street maps and walking maps from worldwide destinations, as well as a selection of world atlases and wall maps. Books include travel guides and travel literature. Stanfords also stock globes, from miniatures made of blue marble to magnificent floor-standing globes. The website features a selection of interesting articles on travel topics.
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