The Rough Guide to Shanghai is the ultimate insider's guide to China's brash new megacity. With the extravagant 2010 world expo serving as its coming out party, Shanghai is muscling forward to take its place alongside such financial powerhouses as Tokyo and London. With clear maps of every neighbourhood and detailed coverage of all the city's attractions, this book will help you discover the best Shanghai has to offer. With detailed practical advice, whether you're looking for great places to eat and drink or inspiring accommodation and the most exciting places to party, you'll find the solution. All the major and offbeat sights are covered, from the gleaming new World Financial Centre to avant garde arts centre Moganshan Lu. And if the pace of the city gets too frenetic, there's all you need to know for great daytrips to tranquil canal towns such as Tongli and Suzhou. Easy-to-use maps, with colour subway guides and the pinyin and Chinese characters, plus expert advice make The Rough Guide to Shanghai your ultimate travelling companion. Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Shanghai.
The Rough Guide to Brussels is the ultimate companion to the beer-guzzling capital of Belgium. The full-colour introduction gives an inspiring insight into many of the city's highlights, from the top museums to Brussels handsome Art Nouveau buildings. There are two new full-colour sections on the nations twin passions, beer and food, plenty of easy-to-use maps and that essential practical information. You?ll find dozens of extensive, up-to-the-minute reviews for bars, shopping, entertainment, restaurants and hotels of Berlin for every budget. With delightful day-trips to the neighbouring cities of Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp, this is your must-have item to the cultural and political hotspot of Brussels Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Brussels.
o of Wales's leading artists - poet and prose writer Nigel Jenkins and photographer David Pearl - join forces to produce a unique portrait in word and image of the Gower peninsula, designated Britain's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Nigel Jenkins's nuanced series of essays begins and ends with an excavation of his own roots in this layered land. Commemorating an age-old agricultural tradition that tied generations to the soil, he also explores the social and cultural forces that changed life on the peninsula for ever. Jenkins adopts the long perspectives that reveal Gower's 'deep history', from the 30, 000-year-old bones of 'The Red Lady' of Paviland and medieval castles to the area's more recent but largely forgotten industrial history and the lifeblood of present-day tourism. Against the background of an ever-changing landscape, the book presents compelling Gower characters such as the Romany Mrs Hearn and the traction-engine maestro Willy Harry. Prose and poetry combine in celebratory dialogue with stunning original photography in this deeply informed portrait of an eternally fascinating corner of Wales.