See the best of Berlin with this streamlined walking guide, complete with 15 step-by-step itineraries & maps to help you explore the city like a pro & navigate like a local. Created in a handy, take-along format, this guide is written by a seasoned travel writer to help conjure the spirit of the place in elegant text enhanced by National Geographic`s famous eye for good pictures. More than just a guidebook, Walking Berlin is full of information about the city & its people. * ON-THE-GROUND INFORMATION allows travellers to avoid long lines, visit at the most opportune time, & see the sites in the most expedient way possible. * WHIRLWIND TOURS: Specialised tours showing you how to see the city if you have only a day or a weekend; if you have kids in tow; if you`re in search of some fun; as well as specific tours catered to modern history & espionage intrigue. * NEIGHBOURHOOD TOURS: Seven step-by-step itineraries of Berlin`s greatest neighbourhoods, including quintessential aspects of the city
- from Berlin`s 13th-century historical centre on the Spree River to its political centre along the great avenue Under den Linden to the royally elegant Charlottenburg district.* Distinctly Berlin features, highlighting Golden Twenties heritage, the Berlin Wall, royal legacy, & other Berlin-specific info. * Best Of thematic groupings of sights, such as brunch venues, riverside activities, & trendy shopping. * In-depth spreads take a deep dive into a major museum or other iconic sight along the route
- the Pergamonmuseum & Schloss Charlottenburg among them. * TRAVEL ESSENTIALS: Information on how to get to the city; how to get around once you`re there; & h&-picked hotels & restaurants.

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The new second edition of the popular book Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies, Neighborhood Culture, Side Streets, & Waterways provides a unique guide to Brooklyn’s diverse communities, notable sights, & ever-evolving streetscape. Author Adrienne Onofri has crafted 30 exceptional tours showcasing the borough’s history, architecture, parks, arts venues, college campuses, places made famous by pop culture, & more. Each chapter of Walking Brooklyn features a DIY tour route, with step-by-step directions, an area map, photographs, & public transportation information. Every tour tells the story of a neighborhood’s past, present, & future, shedding light on its buildings & landmarks, community life, ethnic heritage, cultural & retail scene, & role in Brooklyn’s renaissance. Readers will discover revitalized districts & state-of-the-art new developments; stroll along the river, bay, or ocean; visit galleries, performance spaces, & artists’ workshops; & see residences ranging from the iconic brownstones to Victorian houses to contemporary high-rises. This fully revised & updated book now comes in color &

Includes:: places that were opened or revived since the first edition was published in 2007, such as the Kings Theatre, Barclays Center, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Prospect Park’s Le Frak Center at Lakeside, City Point, Brooklyn Bridge Park, East River State Park, & Industry City. New routes have been created in neighborhoods that have undergone significant changes, like Downtown, Dumbo, Gowanus, Red Hook, Coney Isl&, & Bushwick. Walking Brooklyn is the most comprehensive guidebook available to Brooklyn, covering nearly 40 neighborhoods?from those close to Manhattan (like Brooklyn Heights & Williamsburg) through Park Slope, Fort Greene, Crown Heights, & the rest of the brownstone belt & out to the neighborhoods east of Prospect Park as well as the traditional communities of southern Brooklyn such as Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, & Gerritsen Beach. Entire walks are devoted to Prospect Park & Green-Wood Cemetery, while many other green spaces are featured on neighborhood tours. Brooklyn’s waterfront is also well-represented, including on a walk that crosses both the Brooklyn & Manhattan Bridges. Walking Brooklyn is the only book you need if you want to explore?or reminisce about?this historic, dynamic place that everybody’s talking about!

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Written by the acclaimed historical novelist Lee Jackson, this book recreates the sights & sounds of ” Dickens` London” & provides a detailed itinerary for those keen to follow in the footsteps of ` The Inimitable Boz`. Each of the eight walks conjures up forgotten scenes of London life
- stage-coaches racing through the Borough; herds of cattle driven through suburban streets to reach Smithfield market; the uproar of a hanging outside Newgate Gaol
- together with directions to the most atmospheric & intriguing parts of the Victorian metropolis which have survived into the twenty-first century.

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' Walking Dublin' contains 24 themed walking tours of 1-6 miles which offer the walker an opportunity to discover the history, architecture, skulduggery & the ghost stories of the city, while not missing those all-important places to stop & admire the view or to have a cup of coffee. First-time & regular visitors will relish the carefully designed tours, which explore Dublin's best-known landmarks as well as the secret places known only by locals. ...

' Walking Edinburgh' contains 24 themed walking tours of 1-6 miles which offer the walker an opportunity to discover the history, architecture, skulduggery & the ghost stories of the city, while not missing those all-important places to stop & admire the view or to have a cup of coffee. First-time & regular visitors will relish the carefully designed tours, which explore Dublin's best-known landmarks as well as the secret places known only by locals. ...

In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the far side of middle age & exhausted by labouring to handcraft a home as his marriage slips away. Seeking solace & escape in nature, he sets out on a solo journey into the Alaskan wilderness, travelling first by small boat across the formidable Gulf of Alaska, then on foot along one of the wildest coastlines in North America. Walking Home is filled with stunning observations of the natural world, & rife with nail-biting adventure as Schooler fords swollen rivers & eludes aggressive grizzlies. But more important, it is a story about finding wholeness-and a sense of humanity-in the wild. His is a solitary journey, but Schooler is never alone; human stories people the landscape-tales of trappers, explorers, marooned sailors, & hermits, as well as the mythology of the region`s Tlingit Indians. Alone in the middle of several thousand square miles of wilderness, Schooler conjures the souls of travellers past to learn how the trials of life may be better borne with the help & community of others. In Walking Home Schooler creates a conversation between the human & the natural, the past & present, & investigates, with elegance & soul, what it means to be a part of the flow of human history. ...

What else would one do after ” Cycling Home from Siberia, ” but walk more than 3, 000 miles from the Gobi Desert to Hong Kongstarting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six month journey, walking 3, 000 miles across China. Along the way he & cameraman Leon brave the toxic insides of China`s longest road tunnel, explore desolate stretches of the Great Wall, & endure interrogation by the Chinese police. As they walk on through the heart of China, the exuberant hospitality of cave dwellers, coal miners, & desert nomads keeps them going despite sub-zero blizzards & treacherous terrain. Rob writes with humor & honesty about the hardships of the walk, reflecting on the nature of pilgrimage & the uncertainties of an adventuring career, while also giving insight into life on the road amid the epic landscapes & rapidly industrializing cities of backwater China. ...

In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it the other way round: through beautiful & bleak terrain, across lonely fells & into the howling wind, he would be walking home, towards the Yorkshire village where he was born. Travelling as a `modern troubadour` without a penny in his pocket, he stopped along the way to give poetry readings in village halls, churches, pubs & living rooms. His audiences varied from the passionate to the indifferent, & his readings were accompanied by the clacking of pool balls, the drumming of rain & the bleating of sheep. ” Walking Home” describes this extraordinary, yet ordinary, journey. It`s a story about Britain`s remote & overlooked interior
- the wildness of its landscape & the generosity of the locals who sustained him on his journey. It`s about facing emotional & physical challenges, & sometimes overcoming them. It`s nature writing, but with people at its heart.
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Walking Home
- Clare Balding`s unmissable new book of Great British Adventures. Clare Balding is on a mission to discover Britain
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Longlisted for the 2015 Thwaites Wainwright Prize
- I am at home with my brother Andrew banging on about the joys of walking. Suddenly
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