This updated 2nd edition of this delightful walking guide whose unique sellingpoint is walking routes on `bird`s eye view` (isometric) mapping. Not just this, but the walks are informative & fun. Exploring Prague with this guide is likebeing taken by a friend who knows all the best restaurants, shops andattractions. It will introduce not only the famous sights but the atmosphere ofthe city as a whole. The new & contemporary cover emphasises these benefits, making it clear that the beautiful mapping is uniquely easy to use because itshows the street plan as well as the look of your surroundings. The routes are inall the most interesting areas of central Prague, plus a few on the outskirts. Mostare about an hour long or can be joined together easily for long expeditions. ...

Prague 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. ...

Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, & arcades of the ”city of light, ” Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris ”the capital of the nineteenth century.” In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague`s astonishingly vibrant & always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, & fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions & invasions, national liberation & ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, & snuffed-out dreams of ”socialism with a human face.” Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe`s most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic & architectural modernism, & a center of surrealism second only to Paris. Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague`s spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, & much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist Andre Breton`s ”black humor, ” & Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka & Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera & Vaclav Havel. A masterful & unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century & what made us who we are. ...

Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, & arcades of the ”city of light, ” Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris ”the capital of the nineteenth century.” In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History, Derek Sayer argues that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the much darker twentieth century. Ranging across twentieth-century Prague`s astonishingly vibrant & always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultural history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. Located at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, & fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague witnessed revolutions & invasions, national liberation & ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, & snuffed-out dreams of ”socialism with a human face.” Yet between the wars, when Prague was the capital of Europe`s most easterly parliamentary democracy, it was also a hotbed of artistic & architectural modernism, & a center of surrealism second only to Paris. Focusing on these years, Sayer explores Prague`s spectacular modern buildings, monuments, paintings, books, films, operas, exhibitions, & much more. A place where the utopian fantasies of the century repeatedly unraveled, Prague was tailor-made for surrealist Andre Breton`s ”black humor, ” & Sayer discusses the way the city produced unrivaled connoisseurs of grim comedy, from Franz Kafka & Jaroslav Hasek to Milan Kundera & Vaclav Havel. A masterful & unforgettable account of a city where an idling flaneur could just as easily be a secret policeman, this book vividly shows why Prague can teach us so much about the twentieth century & what made us who we are. ...

”A deliberate historical parable. Prater violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin & keeps up the same high level of excellence”. (Edmund Wilson). An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood`s job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater violet. In the real Vienna of 1934 the Austrian Right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught & his prophecy of the coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues & competing egos threaten to derail the whole project. ...

Prato with Montemurlo at 1:12, 000 on an indexed street plan from Litografia Artistica Cartografica, Italy’s leading publishers of city maps with an extensive range of titles. Where appropriate, the plans include an enlargement showing the historic centre in greater detail. On each plan monuments including historic buildings & churches, archaeological sites, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. One way streets are not marked. Street index is on the reverse. ...

The province of Prato, just north-west of Florence, on a double-sided, contoured & GPS compatible map at 1:25, 000 from Edizioni Multigraphic highlighting waymarked routes & other hiking paths, with access by public transports, etc. The map has contours at 20m intervals with relief shading & plenty of spot heights. Hiking paths are prominently highlighted, with routes waymarked by the Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) annotated with their numbers. The map also shows which of the routes form part of Sentiero Italia & GEA – Grande Escursione Appenninica. Icons indicate local villages with bus connections, mountain refuges, horse-ringing facilities, individual interesting trees, etc. Picturesque villages are highlighted. The map has a 1km UTM grid. Map legend

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Pratt's Map of European Aerodromes, reproduced by the Old House Books, was published in 1930 to reflect the increasing numbers of private pilots as well as airline passengers flying on business & holiday across the English Channel. The poster showing European cities with aerodromes was drawn by Leslie Mac Donald ( ...

Pratt's Map of European Aerodromes Wall Map, size 87 x 63cm (34 x 25 approx), reproduced by the Old House Books, was published in 1930 to reflect the increasing numbers of private pilots as well as airline passengers flying on business & holiday across the English Channel. The poster showing European cities with aerodromes was drawn by Leslie Mac Donald ( ...